All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 29 2016 // New York state will soon require health insurers to cover depression screening for pregnant women and new mothers.The move follows a recommendation from a federal panel that insurers cover maternal depression screening...
Apr 29 2016 // Hackers are likely to get away with about $70 million of Bangladesh’s foreign reserves after a brazen cyber-attack against the South Asian nation, according to Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith.The Philippines...
Apr 27 2016 // New York state’s comptroller urged federal authorities Tuesday to strengthen safety measures against oil spills and require trains to carry sufficient insurance to cover cleanup costs from major accidents.Comptroller...
Apr 27 2016 // UJA-Federation of New York, a philanthropic organization, announced three honorees to be recognized at this year’s General Insurance Annual Dinner. The event will be held on May 31 at Grand Hyatt New York in...
Apr 27 2016 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a multi-line regional property/casualty insurance holding company based in New York, announced that David Delaney has joined the senior management team at its subsidiary Kingstone Insurance...
Apr 27 2016 // The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) advises that motorcycle thefts in New York increased by 23 percent from 2014 to 2015.According to a report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), motorcycle thefts...
Apr 26 2016 // A tentative deal between Newark, New Jersey, and ride-hailing company Uber has hit a roadblock.The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Newark Liberty International Airport, is raising concerns about...
Apr 25 2016 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that it has commenced a liquidation proceeding for the failed insurance cooperative Health Republic.The New York State Supreme Court will supervise the...
Apr 22 2016 // The mayors of four cities in upstate New York have joined an effort to allow Uber to expand outside of New York City.Mayors in Ithaca, Utica, Rome and Hornell on Thursday endorsed a proposal before the state Legislature...
Apr 22 2016 // United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance), a property/casualty insurance holding company based in St. Petersburg, Florida, announced that it received formal approval from the New York State Department of Financial...
Apr 21 2016 // New York’s financial regulator promoted Scott Fischer to be the state’s top insurance watchdog, a position that involves overseeing about 1,700 companies with more than $4 trillion of assets.Fischer, 44, a...
Apr 19 2016 // New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against an Albany-area health insurer that he says broke the law by denying coverage for expensive hepatitis C treatments until patients showed advanced symptoms of the...
Apr 19 2016 // TigerRisk Partners LLC, a reinsurance broker and risk/capital management advisory firm, has hired Philipp Kusche as partner and global head of Insurance-Linked Securities(ILS) and Capital Solutions. Based in...
Apr 18 2016 // New York state is launching a new effort to reduce teen driver deaths and injuries.Timed to coincide with high school proms, spring dances and graduations, the campaign includes public awareness and stepped up law...
Apr 18 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher, Joseph Distel, Continuum SolutionArthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Joseph Distel & Co. Inc. in Farmington, Conn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1955, Joseph...
Apr 15 2016 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, along with officials from attorneys general offices from seven other states and the District of Columbia, recently sent letters to a number of large retail companies...
Apr 13 2016 // New York is requiring health insurers providing individual coverage through the state health exchange to allow victims of domestic violence or abandonment to enroll at any time.The Department of Financial Services says...
Apr 12 2016 // New York state’s health exchange expects to enroll more than 470,000 New Yorkers in its new low-cost option for coverage this year.Testifying at an Assembly hearing last week, exchange Executive Director Donna...
Apr 12 2016 // A New York playwright filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming $20 million in damages and seeking to block Friday’s opening in movie theaters of “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” the fourth of a series of comedies...
Apr 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Virginia has upheld a lower federal court in ruling that a commercial general liability policy (CGL) may cover a data breach. In a case involving the publication of private medical records on the...