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New York Proposes Guidance Governing Insurers’ Use of AI

Jan 17 2024 // New York State is proposing guidance for insurance carriers to prevent unfair discrimination in their use of artificial intelligence and external data sources in underwriting and pricing.A circular letter from...

New York Construction Firm Pleads Guilty to Safety Violation Causing Death of Employee

Jan 10 2024 // Northridge Construction Corp. pleaded guilty to criminal charges last week in federal court in Central Islip, New York, according to federal officials.The three-count information alleges that, in 2018, during the...

New York Civil Trial Against NRA Leader LaPierre Over ‘Lavish Spending’ Opens

Jan 10 2024 // The longtime head of National Rifle Association operated as the “King of the NRA,” spending lavishly on himself, punishing dissent and showering allies with country club memberships and no-show contracts, a...

Report: California 4th Most Expensive State for Business Owners, Washington No. 2

Jan 10 2024 // California ranks fourth for high business startup and maintenance costs, following No. 1 ranked New York as as the most expensive state for entrepreneurs, with high commercial rent costs, weekly wages, and LLC filing...

New York Seeks $370 Million in Damages in Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial

Jan 9 2024 // New York state lawyers increased their request for penalties to over $370 million Friday in Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial. He retorted, “They should pay me.”The exchange came as lawyers for...

OpenAI Claims New York Times Isn’t ‘Telling the Full Story’ in Suit

Jan 9 2024 // OpenAI publicly addressed a lawsuit from the New York Times in a strongly worded blog post on Monday, saying the newspaper’s complaint was “not telling the full story” about its use of Times data.The...

Prominent Black Church in New York Sued by Yale Professor for Gender Bias

Jan 9 2024 // A Yale professor has filed a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against a prominent Harlem church after it did not hire her for its senior pastor job.The suit brought by Eboni Marshall Turman accuses Abyssinian Baptist...

Because ‘Location’ Is Ambiguous in Marine Cargo Policy, Travelers Must Pay Fire Loss

Jan 8 2024 // A New York-based apparel company is entitled to its claim for the full $600,000 limit on its marine cargo insurance policy because the policy was ambiguous as to whether a warehouse fire that destroyed its goods was at an...

New York City Subway Collision With Another Train Injured More Than 20 People

Jan 8 2024 // A New York City subway train derailed last Thursday after colliding with another train at low speed, leaving more than 20 people with minor injuries and causing major service disruptions across Manhattan during the...

People Moves: Gallagher Taps AIG’s Loesti as Chief Commercial Officer of European Broking; QBE Re Promotes 3 Global Product Heads in New York, London

Jan 5 2024 // Gallagher Taps AIG’s Loesti as Chief Commercial Officer, European BrokingNepomuk (Nepo) Loesti has joined Gallagher as chief commercial officer of its European broking operations. The newly created role will support...

OpenAI In Talks With Dozens of Publishers to License Content

Jan 5 2024 // OpenAI said it’s talking to dozens of publishers about striking deals to license their articles, a broader effort than was previously known as the startup looks for content to train its artificial intelligence...

New York City Sues 17 Bus Companies for Transporting Migrants From Texas

Jan 5 2024 // New York City on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing 17 bus companies of illegally transporting more than 33,000 migrants to the city from Texas as part of a campaign by the state’s Republican governor to expel people...

Medical Biller Charged With Stealing $1 Million in Workers’ Compensation Payments

Jan 4 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and arraignment of a New Jersey man for allegedly stealing more than $1 million that was intended to be paid to doctors who provided medical care to injured...

New York Fund for Injured Black Car Drivers Wins Surcharge Fight

Jan 3 2024 // The New York workers’ compensation fund for black car drivers was within its authority to impose a 2.5% surcharge on noncash tips that passengers paid to drivers, a three-justice panel of the Second Circuit Court of...

New York City Parkway Crash Takes 5 Lives

Jan 3 2024 // Five people died when the car they were in crashed on a New York City parkway Monday morning, police said.The Mazda was heading north on the Cross Island Parkway in the borough of Queens when it collided with another...

New York City Woke to Early Morning Tremor

Jan 2 2024 // The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a small 1.7 magnitude tremor occurred near the Astoria, Queens area of New York at about 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday January 2.The epicenter of the quake was about a half mile from...

Top East Insurance Journal Fraud Stories of 2023

Jan 2 2024 // About 10% of property/casualty insurance losses can be traced to fraud, according to the industry’s Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. Insurance Journal publishes an average of 22 fraud stories a month. Insurance...

New York Governor Again Vetoes Bill Allowing Emotional Damages in Wrongful Deaths

Jan 2 2024 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has again vetoed legislation that would have changed the state’s wrongful death statute by letting families recover damages for emotional suffering from the death of a loved one.Hochul...

Title Insurer Reports Another Cybersecurity Event; Fitch Monitoring Ratings

Dec 29 2023 // Less than a month after New York insurance regulators said a title insurer would pay $1 million for violations of a cybersecurity regulation stemming from a 2019 breach, the holding company for the insurer revealed a more...

Top East Insurance Journal Stories of 2023

Dec 29 2023 // Insurance Journal East readers showed keen interest in news about insurance agents’ responsibilities in 2023 including court cases involving an agent’s homeowner client with an unlisted dog; Harvard...