All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 22 2017 // The owner of a Bedford-Stuyvesant construction company and his businesses have been indicted on manslaughter and other charges after a wall collapsed at an excavation site, killing one construction worker and injuring two...
May 19 2017 // Ben Lieberman just wanted to find out what may have caused the head-on collision that killed his 19-year-old son, Evan, on a highway north of New York City. It took a lawsuit and six months in court to get the cellphone...
May 19 2017 // Hub International Northeast (Hub Northeast), a subsidiary of Hub International Limited (Hub), has hired Paul Collins as president and CEO.Based in Manhattan, Collins will be responsible for overseeing all retail and...
May 18 2017 // A county in New York state has sued Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson and other drugmakers, accusing them of engaging in fraudulent marketing that played down the risks of prescription opioid painkillers, leading to...
May 18 2017 // A New York woman has sued the Target corporation after one of its two-ton red balls rolled into her driver’s side door.Eileen Grady claims in her lawsuit that the company “knew or should have known” the...
May 18 2017 // New York state is moving to restrict the ability of auto insurers to use a customer’s job or education to set premiums.Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the proposed regulation Tuesday. The Democrat says it’s...
May 16 2017 // New York businesses could soon see some slight relief in workers’ compensation premiums, according to an announcement from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.The governor’s office released a statement Monday saying that the...
May 15 2017 // New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that New York is now accepting applications from companies interested in testing or demonstrating autonomous vehicles on public roads.Included in the fiscal year 2018 budget,...
May 12 2017 // New York’s Court of Appeals has upheld a state law that allows for permanent suspension of drivers licenses for repeat drunk drivers. A unanimous opinion from five of the state’s highest court judges Tuesday...
May 11 2017 // An ongoing legal battle between two large national insurance brokerage firms over employee poaching is a byproduct of a hazard faced in the financial services industries where relationships and knowledge of business...
May 10 2017 // A federal appeals court threw out a ruling that the U.S. government illegally bailed out insurer American International Group Inc. during the 2008 financial crisis, in a defeat for former chief executive officer Maurice...
May 9 2017 // A federal appeals court threw out a ruling that the U.S. government illegally bailed out insurer American International Group Inc. during the 2008 financial crisis, in a defeat for former chief executive officer Maurice...
May 5 2017 // People planning to rent boats on a popular upstate New York lake will be required to watch a safety video before being allowed to take a rental vessel onto the water.The Post-Star of Glens Falls reports the Lake George...
May 4 2017 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed Wayne T....
May 2 2017 // New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced two new proposed regulations to protect New Yorkers and crack down on unscrupulous practices in the title insurance industry.These new protections were drafted following an...
Apr 28 2017 // John Harris has joined Sean Brady and Huntington, New York-based Brady Risk Management as managing director of the newly formed Brady Risk Program Managers.Harris has served as the chief underwriting officer for a number...
Apr 27 2017 // A fire has heavily damaged the upstate New York mill owned by a Cooperstown-based wood baseball bat company.Emergency officials in Otsego County say the fire was reported around 6 p.m. Monday at Cooperstown Bat Co.’s...
Apr 27 2017 // A teenager who has been in and out of the hospital with mental health problems since the death of a friend in a massive fire the boys started was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation.A Family Court judge also ordered...
Apr 26 2017 // Generali is expanding its U.S. global corporate and commercial operations with the opening of offices in Chicago and San Francisco in a bid to grab more business from U.S. multinational companies.The Italian...
Apr 25 2017 // Insurance broker and consultant Willis Towers Watson has made six senior appointments across its Global FINEX business, the company’s financial, executive and professional risk specialty group.Jeremy Wall has been...