All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 9 2025 // Beginning February 2, 2026, all claimants and lay witnesses testifying in virtual hearings before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board will be required to appear and testify by video with their faces fully...
Dec 9 2025 // The Archdiocese of New York announced it is establishing a $300 million fund that it intends to use to pay for a global settlement of most of the 1,300 lawsuits it still faces from victims of clergy sexual abuse.The...
Dec 5 2025 // The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission.The startup has...
Dec 5 2025 // New York’s Suffolk County, home to the ultra-wealthy Hamptons and the bucolic North Fork, must pay $112 million in damages to immigrants after a court ruled that their detention in local jails violated their...
Dec 4 2025 // Instacart sued New York City on Tuesday, seeking to block enforcement of five laws affecting the grocery delivery company, including higher minimum pay for app-based workers and greater disclosures to customers about...
Dec 1 2025 // A federal judge last Wednesday granted Amazon.com a preliminary injunction to block the New York State Public Employment Relations Board from enforcing a new state law that the online retailer considers an attempt to...
Dec 1 2025 // New York Attorney General Letitia James recently issued a consumer alert encouraging New Yorkers to report companies not disclosing their use of algorithmic pricing, as a new state law requires.Algorithmic pricing allows...
Nov 25 2025 // A federal jury awarded $80 million Wednesday to the estate of a Buffalo man whose conviction in a 1976 murder was overturned after he spent nearly a quarter century in prison.Darryl Boyd, one of the group of Black...
Nov 20 2025 // Another fire ignited on Thursday at Novelis’ aluminum plant in Oswego, New York, that supplies Ford’s lucrative F-150 truck line, about two months after a blaze halted much of the facility’s...
Nov 12 2025 // Shell has challenged its defeat in an arbitration case against U.S. liquefied natural gas producer Venture Global in the New York Supreme Court, a legal filing seen by Reuters shows, weeks after rival BP won a similar $1...
Nov 11 2025 // New York City firefighter died Saturday after suffering a medical episode while battling a five-alarm fire at a Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said.Patrick D. Brady, 42, went into cardiac arrest while working on...
Nov 10 2025 // New York Attorney General Letitia James has issued a consumer alert encouraging New Yorkers to report companies not disclosing their use of algorithmic pricing, as a new state law requires.Algorithmic pricing allows...
Nov 5 2025 // Severe weather events are increasing in New York and certain types of events, including thunderstorm-related damaging wind and flash flooding, are also increasing, according to a new report from State Comptroller Thomas P....
Nov 4 2025 // JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit by the state of New York over allegations the company misled the public about reducing the impact of its operations on the...
Nov 3 2025 // A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman in an early test of the...
Nov 3 2025 // A Bermuda captive that insured several New York hospitals affiliated with a leading Jewish not-for-profit organization says it is insolvent, citing millions of dollars in child sex abuse claims brought against it under the...
Oct 30 2025 // Predictions marketplace Kalshi Inc. sued New York’s gaming commission, saying the state agency is overstepping its authority by attempting to regulate sports-betting operations that fall exclusively under federal...
Oct 23 2025 // GEICO is taking aggressive action against medical firms in Florida and New York, accusing them of leading multimillion-dollar, no-fault auto insurance fraud schemes.In a lawsuit filed this month in federal court in Tampa,...
Oct 23 2025 // The New York State financial services regulator warns insurance companies, banks and other financial services institutions of the cyber risks associated with the growing use of third-party service providers (TPSP).Exposure...
Oct 21 2025 // A New York City construction firm will pay $1.5 million to settle charges that it violated state workers’ compensation laws, retaliating against injured workers, and failing to address sexual harassment in the...