All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Dec 6 2016 // International law firm Alston & Bird has hired Adam Kaiser and John Aerni as partners in the firm’s New York office.Both Kaiser and Aerni are senior litigators with more than 50 years of collective experience,...
Dec 6 2016 // Airbnb Inc. and New York City said on Friday they had resolved a lawsuit brought by the company challenging a law it argued could expose it to significant penalties for advertising short-term apartment rentals.Airbnb filed...
Dec 5 2016 // Lemonade, the home and renters insurance company run by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics, announced a $34 million B round of funding.The latest round was led by General Catalyst with participation from GV...
Dec 5 2016 // Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Penn., based independent broker, has hired Braden Brodsky as a senior financial analyst in the employee benefits department.In this role, Brodsky will use his three years of industry...
Dec 5 2016 // A New York subway train struck two workers in a tunnel, killing one and injuring the other, and investigators are looking at whether there is enough room in the escape alcoves along the tracks.A federal official briefed on...
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
Dec 1 2016 // Swiss Re’s solar power installation at its U.S. headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., a 2-megawatt facility expected to be up and running by late spring 2017, is just one part of a green theme that the carrier has been...
Dec 1 2016 // The city is ramping up pedestrian safety efforts during the annual influx of holiday visitors and decreased daylight hours.Mayor Bill de Blasio, police Commissioner James P. O’Neill and other officials said Tuesday...