Lucas D. Strunk, Richard S. Bartlett, Event Chair Richard L. Aiken, Jr., and Erik S. Bartlett play in the 20th Annual Verrilli-Belkin Workers’ Compensation Charity Golf and Dinner Event. Photo taken Kenneth B. Katz.
The Connecticut Bar Association’s (CBA) Workers’ Compensation Section held their 20th Annual Verrilli-Belkin Workers’ Compensation Charity Golf and Dinner Event at Shuttle Meadow Country Club on September 13. More than $200,000 has been raised, over the life of the tournament, for Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare. This annual event is named after former Commissioners Frank J. Verrilli and Howard H. Belkin, who were avid golfers.
More than 120 commissioners, workers’ compensation practitioners, and staff members of the Workers’ Compensation Commission offices played golf and sponsored this year’s tournament, which raised over $10,000. Event sponsors included Commissioners Salerno and Truglia, as well as retired Commissioners Engel, Mastropietro, Waldron, and White. In attendance were Commissioners Morelli and Dilzer and Mrs. Louise Belkin, wife of the deceased golf event’s namesake.
“For the past 20 years, both claimant and respondent attorneys of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the CBA, in conjunction with the Workers’ Compensation Commission, have come together in a collegial environment to play golf and attend a reception to successfully raise money for two very worthy charities, Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare,” said Richard L. Aiken, Jr., chair of the golf event.
The Connecticut Bar Association, founded in 1875, is the preeminent organization for lawyers and the legal profession in Connecticut. With its 70+ sections and committees, the CBA produces over 300 programs each year, including the Connecticut Legal Conference. The CBA is a nonprofit member service organization dedicated to advancing the legal profession and the principles of law and justice.
The Workers’ Compensation Section organizes the members of the CBA who are workers’ compensation practitioners and to educate all members of the bar from all sides at all levels of expertise as to workers’ compensation law. Furthermore, the section provides services to organizations other than the CBA when those organizations are involved in the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation system. The section consists of members who represent injured workers, employers and insurers, as well as the State of Connecticut and the Second Injury Fund.
The Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare partners with the food industry, food growers, donors, and volunteers to distribute food to people across Connecticut.