All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 11 2023 // Former President Donald Trump returned to his civil fraud trial last Thursday to spotlight his defense, renewing his complaints that the case is baseless and heaping praise on an accounting professor`s testimony that...
Dec 11 2023 // New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $400,000 from dental insurance provider Healthplex, Inc. for failing to properly protect the personal and medical information of New Yorkers.Healthplex, a Long...
Dec 11 2023 // In a case of politics making strange bedfellows, the National Rifle Association will be represented by frequent nemesis the American Civil Liberties Union in an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court.The New York-based civil...
Dec 11 2023 // Two former students are suing Sarah Lawrence College, arguing the New York school failed to protect them from Lawrence “Larry” Ray as the ex- convict moved into his daughter’s housing on campus and began...
Dec 8 2023 // Liberty Mutual Honored with Double I Award for Philanthropic Influence and ImpactNEW YORK (November 30, 2023) –The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping...
Dec 8 2023 // Analysts from Standard & Poor’s predicted this week that while personal auto results are starting to stabilize, the continued push for rate in 2024 will set the stage for more faceoffs between regulators and...
Dec 7 2023 // A former employee of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) pleaded guilty to falsely claiming he had inspected a part of a railway that an investigation determined was broken and contributed to a collision in Speonk, New York...
Dec 4 2023 // A New York state appellate court has ruled that an April 2021 state law repealing a March 2020 grant of immunity to nursing homes over their handling of COVID-19 patients is not retroactive.The ruling means a nursing...
Dec 4 2023 // Pat Tomlinson has been named president of Marsh McLennan’s Mercer and will succeed Mercer CEO Martine Ferland upon her retirement March 31, 2024.In the meantime, as president, Tomlinson will report to Ferland and...
Dec 1 2023 // (Bloomberg) — A roughly 13,000-square-foot, full-floor penthouse and roof at the Rosewood Residences, a 17-story condo tower designed by Peter Marino in Miami’s South Beach, could soon be the most expensive in...
Dec 1 2023 // A federal grand jury has indicted Richard Zagger, of Blue Point, New York, charging him with conspiracy and obstruction of an investigation into a fatal construction accident, according to the U.S. Department of...
Dec 1 2023 // A U.S. labor board has dismissed claims that Tesla Inc. illegally fired employees working on Autopilot software at a New York factory to put an end to union organizing.A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional...
Nov 30 2023 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul has requested a major disaster declaration from President Joe Biden to support the ongoing recovery of downstate communities affected by the significant flooding occurring during a two-day...
Nov 30 2023 // New York drivers who renewed their licenses during part of the coronavirus pandemic face license suspensions on starting Friday, December 1, if they don’t submit vision tests, the state Department of Motor Vehicles...
Nov 30 2023 // Bailey Place Insurance has agreed to acquire Tanner Ibbotson in a merger of two historic Cortland, New York-based independent insurance agencies.Effective April 1, 2024, Tanner Ibbotson’s office on West Road will...
Nov 28 2023 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that First American Title Insurance Co. will pay a $1 million penalty to New York State for violations of DFS’s cybersecurity regulation stemming...
Nov 27 2023 // FBThe FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack, easing a period of high tensions as Americans...
Nov 27 2023 // Eight firefighters were injured battling a Thanksgiving night fire that displaced more than a dozen residents in West New York, New Jersey, officials said.WABC-TV reports that the fire was in an apartment above a pharmacy...
Nov 22 2023 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Queensbury, New York-based independent insurance agency, Hughes Insurance Agency, Inc.From it headquarters in Queensbury and an office in Albany, Hughes serves the...
Nov 22 2023 // A federal workplace safety investigation alleges that a Huntington, New York contractor could have prevented a roofer’s fatal fall at a Glen Cove worksite in April by following legally required safeguards designed to...