All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 22 2016 // Insurance startup Lemonade is eyeing a national expansion and has filed for licenses to operate in 46 states and the District of Columbia.The peer-to-peer insurer that is focused on renters and homeowners insurance is...
Dec 22 2016 // New York’s financial regulator will delay an anticipated Jan. 1 deadline for banks and insurers doing business in the state to comply with controversial cyber security rules, a person familiar with the matter...
Dec 21 2016 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday issued a regulation making it easier for businesses to hire former convicts by prohibiting insurance companies from refusing coverage for crime-related losses caused by...
Dec 21 2016 // A federal prosecutor on Monday said the government won’t introduce at trial a lengthy statement from a man charged with setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey in order to keep to a scheduled trial date in...
Dec 20 2016 // QBE North America, an operating division of global insurer QBE Insurance Group Limited, has appointed Kris L. Hill as chief financial officer.Hill will assume her new role effective January 17, 2017 and also serve as a...
Dec 20 2016 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization working with the insurance industry to help communities and enrich lives, has announced that more than 900 insurance professionals attended its...
Dec 19 2016 // A 48-year-old man convicted of killing his fiancee to collect on her life insurance has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Ronald Epps of Amherst was sentenced in U.S. District...
Dec 19 2016 // “The governor has been clear about the importance of the marijuana industry to Oregon’s economy.”— Jeff Rhoades, marijuana policy adviser for Gov. Kate Brown, said a move by the state to ease...
Dec 19 2016 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc., the Worcester, Mass., based holding company for several property and casualty insurance companies, has elected Jane D. Carlin to the company’s board of directors.Carlin is a senior...
Dec 19 2016 // The Department of Buildings of the City of New York’s (DOB) recent move to better regulate crawler crane operations in New York City has led to concern for some in the insurance industry that a stricter regulatory...
Dec 16 2016 // Those in the business of selling used cars in the state of New York will need to comply with new surety bond requirements in the spring of 2017.The car dealer bond is part of the licensing criteria enforced by the New York...
Dec 15 2016 // Thirteen current and former New York City employees have been arrested in a $500,000 insurance fraud scheme.Authorities say 10 FDNY emergency medical technicians and paramedics, including EMS officers, and three NYPD...
Dec 13 2016 // Some Bangladesh central bank officials deliberately exposed its computer systems and enabled hackers to steal $81 million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February, a top police investigator in...
Dec 12 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected former American International Group CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s bid to escape civil fraud charges in New York accusing him of orchestrating sham transactions...
Dec 12 2016 // New York City officials are blaming a crane collapse that killed a man in lower Manhattan in February on operator error.The city Department of Buildings said Friday the crane operator failed to secure the 565-foot crane...
Dec 9 2016 // In a moment of peace-making with regulators, Airbnb on Wednesday released a set of policy suggestions for governments that are considering new laws for home- and apartment-renting.The document, which comes on the heels of...
Dec 9 2016 // A California federal judge has rendered a ruling on the insurance dispute that emanated from the fatal train accident during the 2014 shooting of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider in Georgia. In a summary judgment...
Dec 8 2016 // JenCap Holdings LLC, a New York-headquartered consolidator of specialty insurance distribution and program management businesses, has agreed to acquire privately held NIF Group Inc. (NIF), a managed general agency, program...
Dec 7 2016 // For two years, stock traders and the attorneys who represent them said insider-trading law was a muddle, with no one knowing exactly what was or wasn’t legal. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it had...
Dec 7 2016 // Cyence, a San Mateo, Calif., based company that works to empower the insurance industry to model the economic impact of cyber risk, has named John Merchant as director of business development.He will be working with...