All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 28 2016 // Adam Friedlander is a third generation insurance professional who has made his mark in safety, workplace safety that is. His New York agency, Friedlander Group, has for years developed and managed employer safety groups...
Jul 26 2016 // New York state is launching an investigation into the working conditions of employees in the dry cleaning industry. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the effort will include the study of chemicals commonly used by dry cleaners that...
Jul 26 2016 // A western New York man struck by a Rochester police cruiser earlier this year has filed a $7 million lawsuit against the department.The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported that 24-year-old Brian Norford claims in the...
Jul 26 2016 // A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc. and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information from a background check on a passenger bringing a price-fixing lawsuit, saying the investigative firm...
Jul 25 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, McLaughlin Brunson Insurance AgencyNational insurance brokerage and risk management firm Risk Strategies Co. has acquired Dallas-based McLaughlin Brunson Insurance Agency. McLaughlin Brunson...
Jul 24 2016 // State and federal officials are investigating what caused a huge construction crane to collapse across the Tappan Zee Bridge north of New York City, an accident that somehow caused no serious injuries but added to a list...
Jul 21 2016 // Most of the lanes of the Tappan Zee Bridge north of New York City have reopened after a crane collapsed across the entire width of the bridge on Tuesday, but transportation officials were still advising motorists to plan...
Jul 21 2016 // New York will require $1 million coverage for life-threatening brain injuries and other new health insurance for both professional boxers and its first group of licensed mixed martial artists under regulations slated to...
Jul 21 2016 // MetLife Inc., the New York-based insurer that traces its roots to the 1860s, said it’s come up with a new name for a U.S. retail unit that’s slated for separation.The business will be known as Brighthouse...
Jul 21 2016 // New York has approved a 9.3 percent average hike in workers’ compensation loss costs.The new benchmarks will go into effect Oct. 1. New York businesses, while not pleased, see the hike as necessary in order to keep...
Jul 20 2016 // Senior executives at Volkswagen AG including its former chief executive covered up evidence that the German automaker had cheated on U.S. diesel emissions tests for years, three U.S. states charged on Tuesday in civil...
Jul 19 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) reported that it has expanded into Transactional Liability Insurance in the U.S. and Canada and named Robert Underhill as senior vice president, head of Transactional...
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...