Hartford Distributors Victim's Girlfriend Fights For Workers'
Comp Benefits    • Stephanie Laurin and her fiance William
Ackerman at a picnic held in East Hampton on July 11, 2010. Less
than three weeks later Ackerman was one of eight workers killed
at Hartford Distributors Inc. Laurin is fighting the company's
insurer to get workmen's compensation benefits. Stephanie Laurin
and her fiance William Ackerman at a picnic held in East…
(Courtesy Stephanie Laurin ) March 20, 2011|By DAVE ALTIMARI,
daltimar@courant.com, The Hartford Courant  Stephanie Laurin and
William Ackerman were set to be married last October, but their
plans ended when a gunmen killed Ackerman at Hartford
Distributors in August.  Now, as she picks up the pieces of the
life she knows is lost forever, Laurin, 36, is fighting the
company and its insurer to get Ackerman's workers' compensation
benefits, which amount to about $500 a week.  It's a case, legal
experts say, that could end up in the state's Supreme Court.
"Bill and I lived together a