All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 11 2016 // The number of drivers issued a ticket for talking on a hand-held cellphone is dropping in New York state — though more people than ever are being caught texting while behind the wheel.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said...
Apr 8 2016 // Uber and Lyft are gearing up for a campaign to expand their ride-hailing operations into upstate New York to include Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.New Yorkers for Ridesharing, a coalition of more than 50 groups...
Apr 8 2016 // A New York health insurer’s study shows 10 common conditions like sinus infections and sprains represented more than 2 million visits to hospital emergency rooms statewide and cost about $1.3 billion in 2013.The...
Apr 7 2016 // An insurance scam that involved selling bogus liability policies — including one to the operator of the New York tour boat Ethan Allen before it sank in 2005 — has gotten a mention in the data leak dubbed...
Apr 6 2016 // Anbang Insurance Group Co., which walked away from a bid to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. last week, has agreed to buy Allianz SE’s operations in South Korea.The Chinese insurer will purchase...
Apr 5 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Maggs & Associates in Schenectady, New York. Terms of the...
Apr 5 2016 // Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services, a wholesale brokerage based in New York City, recently announced that its assets will be acquired by private-equity giant Carlyle Group. Terms of the transaction were not...
Apr 4 2016 // An Amtrak train struck a piece of construction equipment just south of Philadelphia on Sunday causing a derailment, killing two people and sending more than 30 others to hospitals, authorities said.Train 89 was heading...