All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2025 // A Long Island school district is accusing two insurers of ducking their responsibilities to defend and indemnify it against lawsuits by former students claiming they were sexually abused by an elementary school teacher...
May 7 2025 // Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian hospitals will pay $750 million to patients who sued over being sexually abused by a former gynecologist who was convicted of sex crimes in 2023.The settlement was achieved on...
May 6 2025 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates LLC has acquired the business of Christopher Williams Agency and Barrett Millard LLC of Pittsford, New York. The Christopher Williams Agency began in 1961, and it purchased...
May 6 2025 // DoorDash Inc. is committing $5 million to back political candidates in New York City and state-level races in New Jersey this year, becoming the latest technology company to disclose its lobbying efforts ahead of local...
May 5 2025 // Members of a high school lacrosse program in upstate New York are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players in a stunt that “went way beyond hazing,” prosecutors said this week.All 11 people...
May 2 2025 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has announced a multiyear partnership with the New York Liberty women’s professional basketball team.As part of the partnership, the Liberty Mutual logo will be prominently displayed on all...
May 2 2025 // Last year, New York City settled 13,397 claims against it for a total cost of $1.94 billion, the most ever for one fiscal year, up from $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2023, the city’s financial monitor has...
May 1 2025 // SmartChoice Names Caldwell CEOSmart Choice, headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, restructured its executive leadership, naming Andrew Caldwell as CEO, while founder Doug Witcher has transitioned to the chairman of...
Apr 28 2025 // Dog and other pet owners and insurers in New York are now exposed to increased risk of liability in the wake of a Court of Appeals ruling that allows an injured party to bring an ordinary negligence claim against a...
Apr 25 2025 // The wildfire scorching southern New Jersey ignited despite a series of downpours in recent weeks — and the region is ripe for more blazes.April’s rains didn’t soak into the ground enough to prevent the fire...
Apr 23 2025 // A federal jury in Manhattan on Tuesday found the New York Times NYT.N not liable for allegedly defaming Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial about gun control, dealing the former Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate a...
Apr 22 2025 // Three people died and a fourth was critically injured early Easter Sunday when a fire tore through an overcrowded home in Queens, that had no evidence of a working smoke detector and had blocked stairs and exits, fire...
Apr 21 2025 // Originally set to go into effect Jan. 31, New York’s new law offers workers more protections against workplace violence and harassment.The Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C), signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D)...
Apr 18 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. is spending six figures on advertisements in New York in its latest appeal to lawmakers to address issues stemming from the insolvency of the city’s largest taxi insurer.The rideshare giant...
Apr 17 2025 // New York State’s Inspector General said her office identified $2.7 million in workers’ compensation fraud in 2024, a nearly 30% increase compared to 2023.Inspector General Lucy Lang also reported there were 14...
Apr 15 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration ordered New York Helicopter Charter Inc. to cease operations while it conducts a review of the tour operator’s license and safety record following a deadly crash last week.The...
Apr 14 2025 // New York Attorney General Letitia James urged lawmakers on Thursday to pass legislation to create a federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, arguing that digital asset investors urgently need stronger...
Apr 14 2025 // A helicopter ride giving a thrilling sweep of Manhattan’s iconic skyline has long been on the to-do list for New York City tourists of means.For several hundred dollars, tour companies fly passengers high above the...
Apr 11 2025 // Sarah Palin and the New York Times are headed back to a courtroom where the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate will try convincing a second jury the newspaper defamed her in an editorial...
Apr 10 2025 // Starting in the 1980s, New York law enforcement and health officials fielded sexual abuse complaints from the young patients of a respected pediatrician who ran his practice out of a basement office in his home on Long...