All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. sued New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to stop his investigation into what the company knew about climate change.The oil giant on Thursday revised a lawsuit it filed in June against...
Nov 10 2016 // A major blaze is burning at the former Bethlehem Steel site outside Buffalo.Firefighters responded around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday to reports of a fire at the industrial site in the city of Lackawanna, just south of Buffalo....
Nov 10 2016 // The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) has created a producers’ advisory council and appointed three Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY) members to serve on the council.Jack Smith, Jr.,...
Nov 9 2016 // Airbnb Inc.’s claim that it’s just a conduit for user-generated content was rejected by a judge who said the company may not be able to duck a San Francisco law punishing it when hosts book units that...
Nov 7 2016 // A subway train struck two workers in a tunnel early Thursday, killing one and injuring the other, and investigators are looking at whether there’s enough room in the escape alcoves along the tracks.A federal official...
Nov 7 2016 // U.S. lawyers on Friday urged an appeals court to bless the federal government’s $85 billion bailout of American International Group Inc. At the same time, attorneys for Maurice “Hank” Greenberg are asking...
Nov 6 2016 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has settled a 2011 lawsuit claiming the investment bank fraudulently induced a bond insurer to guarantee payments on the doomed Abacus collateralized debt obligation ahead of the financial...
Nov 4 2016 // The last of three New York men who set fire to a business belonging to one of the men’s father has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.Prosecutors say 51-year-old Christopher Gorman of Buffalo had been...
Nov 3 2016 // QBE North America, the New York-headquartered division of QBE Insurance Group Limited, hired Carla Owens as senior vice president of operations for its specialty business group.Based in New York City, Owens will report to...
Nov 2 2016 // This story is an update to an earlier one updating the worker injuries and one fatality.The owner of the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline said it may resume service on its gasoline line at noon local time Saturday after an...
Nov 2 2016 // The MEMIC Group, a workers’ compensation insurer headquartered in Portland, Maine, has appointed Randy Morehouse as a safety management consultant in New York. Morehouse will join safety management consultants...
Nov 2 2016 // Airbnb Inc and New York state are in talks to resolve a lawsuit brought by the company challenging a law it says could expose it to significant penalties for advertising short-term apartment rentals, a person familiar with...
Nov 2 2016 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has completed its acquisition of Stroz Friedberg Inc., a global risk management firm based in New York City. Financial terms were not disclosed. This move...
Nov 1 2016 // Global reinsurer Swiss Re has broken ground on the largest solar power installation in Westchester County, New York.When completed in late spring 2017, the solar plant will occupy 10 acres of space in the Southeast corner...
Oct 31 2016 // Lemonade, a newly licensed insurance company for homeowners and renters, appointed William D. Latza as its chief compliance officer and general counsel.Latza joins Lemonade after spending 25 years as partner at Stroock...
Oct 31 2016 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc., a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in New York City, has entered into an agreement to acquire AmeriHealth Casualty Insurance Company from Independence Health Group Inc....
Oct 27 2016 // A Hudson Valley dentist acquitted earlier this year of fatally poisoning his ex-lover’s husband has been convicted of fraud and theft. The Daily Freeman of Kingston reports an Ulster County Court jury on Tuesday...
Oct 26 2016 // The city and state of New York said Monday they would hold off enforcing a new law restricting short-term apartment sublets against Airbnb Inc. until the company’s lawsuit over the issue is resolved.That was a...
Oct 25 2016 // Crystal & Company, a New York based strategic risk and insurance advisor addressing clients’ risk management, insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting needs, has hired Scott Strenger as an executive...
Oct 25 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. is headed to a courtroom in New York for the first time to try to block the state’s demand for accounting documents about how climate change will affect its finances.New York Attorney General Eric...