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Defense Expert at New York Trump Trial Testifies He Sees No Evidence of Fraud

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...

New York Fines Dental Insurer $400K Over Data Breach

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...

NRA to Have Surprising Defender in Supreme Court Free Speech Case: the ACLU

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...

New York College Faces Students’ Lawsuit Over Abuse by Ex-Con Who Lived on Campus

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...

Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Raises Record $1.43 Million for Regional Nonprofits at 17th Annual Northeast Benefit Event

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...

Regulatory Battles In Personal Lines Ahead; Allstate May Drop Customers

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...

Long Island Rail Road Employee Falsified Inspection Report Before Derailment

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...

New York Court Upholds Nursing Home COVID-19 Immunity

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...

People & Places

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...

Despite Insurance Costs, Lux Condos Going Up: Miami Tower to Have $150M Penthouse

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...

New York Man Charged With Obstructing Investigation Into Fatal Construction Incident

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...

Tesla Beats Claim It Fired New York Factory Workers Amid Union Campaign

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...

New York Governor Seeks Federal Disaster Aid for Downstate for September Floods

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...

50,000 New York Drivers Face License Suspension If They Don’t Submit Vision Test

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...

Historic Merger in New York: Bailey Place to Acquire Tanner Ibbotson

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...

Title Insurer to Pay New York $1 Million Penalty Over 2019 Data Breach

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...

FBI Closes Probe of Car Wreck at Niagara Falls Bridge, No Indication of Terrorism

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...

New Jersey Blaze lnjured 8 Firefighters and Displaced a Dozen Residents

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...

Gallagher Acquires New York’s Hughes Insurance Agency

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...

New York Contractor Faces $522K in OSHA Penalties for Exposing Workers to Fall Hazards

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...