All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 19 2016 // International broker and risk management firm Integro Insurance Brokers today announced the appointment of Esther Ro as New York operations leader. She succeeds Anne Anderson, who has taken on the role of North America...
Jul 19 2016 // New York and Maryland are among several states planning to sue Volkswagen AG over the environmental damage done by devices that were designed by the carmaker to cheat on pollution-control tests.Maryland Attorney General...
Jul 18 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary National Indemnity Co. is acquiring Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Co. of New York for an undisclosed price.The deal comes as the insurer completes its conversation from a mutual company...
Jul 18 2016 // A man is recovering from minor injuries he suffered when he crashed his brother’s car into a tree in central New York while playing Pokemon Go on his smartphone.Police in Auburn in the Finger Lakes region tell The...
Jul 15 2016 // A construction company convicted in the death of a worker in a New York trench collapse has been sentenced to fund a series of worker safety public service announcements.But an attorney for Harco Construction LLC told a...
Jul 14 2016 // A decade ago, Bear Stearns Cos. agreed to pay $250 million to resolve regulators’ claims that it was at the center of a system that allowed clients to break mutual-fund trading rules.JPMorgan Chase & Co., which...
Jul 13 2016 // Homebuyers in New York State overpaid on the cost of their title insurance to the tune of $155.3 million last year, according to a new report from OneTitle National Guaranty Co.Based on public records for 182,487 real...
Jul 13 2016 // Buffalo, New York-based insurance agency Lawley has added Pat Malleolo to its employee benefits sales division in its recently relocated Purchase, N.Y. office. The hiring of Malleolo in Lawley’s Westchester County...
Jul 12 2016 // New York’s insurance regulator has conditionally approved Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion takeover of Humana Inc., one of the last state sign-offs needed for the deal, people familiar with the matter said.The...
Jul 11 2016 // The New York State Senate has confirmed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s pick to become the state’s top financial regulator. The confirmation vote for Maria Vullo, Cuomo’s nominee for superintendent of the New...
Jul 11 2016 // The Hudson River may still become a major corridor for the shipment of thick, tar sands oil from Canada despite moves last year by New York officials that attempted to halt those efforts.At issue is a key air permit needed...
Jul 8 2016 // Hulk Hogan, stymied by the bankruptcy filing of Gawker Media in the midst of a legal battle over a sex tape, is fighting back using the tools of Chapter 11 law.Hogan, unable to collect a $140 million jury verdict against...
Jul 7 2016 // National insurance distribution firm Confie has acquired two insurance brokerages in New York State – Lloyd D. Sprague & Son Inc. and J.N. Mason Agency Inc.Confie, a portfolio company of ABRY Partner, has completed...
Jul 7 2016 // New York state’s top financial regulator, Maria Vullo, agreed to adopt new industry-supported reserve requirements for life insurers, departing from a predecessor who derided the shift as ” unwise.”The...
Jul 6 2016 // Katja Zigerlig has joined Hub Northeast as senior vice president, Fine Arts and Special Risks Group, responsible for developing business with collectors, museums, dealers and estates. Zigerlig will be based in the New York...
Jun 30 2016 // New York’s highest court has upheld court judgments against a steam valve manufacturer, citing its failure to warn of the dangers of using its valves with gaskets and packing that contain asbestos.The Court of...
Jun 24 2016 // Eighteen immigrant car wash employees in New York and New Jersey received more than $91,000 each as part of a federal court settlement for unpaid wages, making it the biggest per-worker recovery in the car wash industry,...
Jun 21 2016 // The Hudson River may still become a major corridor for the shipment of thick, tar sands oil from Canada despite moves last year by New York officials that many thought stopped those efforts.At issue is a key air permit...
Jun 20 2016 // Erie Indemnity, the managing company for Erie Insurance, has named Timothy G. NeCastro as Erie Insurance’s president and CEO-designate effective June 1.NeCastro is a 20-year veteran of the company. He will succeed...
Jun 20 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pick to serve as the state’s top financial regulator on June 8 signaled she would take a more business-friendly approach than her predecessor, who was known for his pursuit of big...