All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 22 2016 // E-Cigarette Marketing“The health of New York City kids is not for sale.” —New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer on the need to investigate and regulate marketing of e-cigarettes. Stringer hosted a rally...
Feb 19 2016 // U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D–N.Y.) wrote to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging the federal agency to expand crop insurance for barley in all counties in New York where production is...
Feb 18 2016 // A conceivable diminishment in my pancake experience is what I’ll take away from the last two weeks of weird headlines tied to the topic of climate change.However, it was the rancor over the death of Supreme Court...
Feb 16 2016 // John L. Guadagno U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. has hired John L. Guadagno as executive vice president of Binding Operations for its affiliate company, U.S. Risk Underwriters. At U.S. Risk, Guadagno’s focus will...
Feb 12 2016 // A U.S.-based insurer to the global shipping industry said it got government authorization to cover non-American companies transporting oil from Iran, potentially helping the Persian Gulf country to revive exports of crude...
Feb 11 2016 // Allyson Martin Hub International Northeast, a division of Hub International Limited, has hired Allyson Martin as senior vice president and strategic real estate advisor. In this role, Martin will oversee the development...
Feb 11 2016 // Knoedler & Co, which before closing in 2011 was New York City’s oldest art gallery, has agreed to settle a lawsuit over an $8.3 million sale of a fake Rothko painting, just as its ex-president was preparing to...
Feb 10 2016 // When agency consultants at Reagan Consulting hosted more than 150 industry leaders at a workshop on agent/broker mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recently, the mood was upbeat, since brokers are enjoying their best...
Feb 10 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2016-17 fiscal year budget plan includes a proposal to expand the ability of certain governmental entities to use wrap-ups for public works projects — but an insurance...
Feb 9 2016 // Holborn, an independent reinsurance broker based in New York City, has hired Stephanie Gould Rabin as senior vice president. In this role, Gould Rabin will be responsible for working closely with the firm’s analytics...
Feb 9 2016 // Andrew Forstenzer Preferred Mutual Insurance Company in New Berlin, New York, has hired Andrew Forstenzer as general counsel. Throughout his professional career, Forstenzer has served in multiple leadership roles. Most...
Feb 9 2016 // The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) announced that its Board of Governors has unanimously elected Jeremy Attie as NYCIRB’s next president after a recommendation from a Search Committee made up...
Feb 8 2016 // Entergy Corp. said elevated levels of radioactive material found in groundwater at the 2,000-megawatt Indian Point nuclear power facility north of New York City don’t pose a threat to public safety.Increased levels...
Feb 8 2016 // When agency consultants at Reagan Consulting hosted more than 150 industry leaders at a workshop on agent/broker mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recently, the mood was upbeat, since many brokers have continued to enjoy...
Feb 8 2016 // The Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York (LRANY) said New York’s Labor Law 240, better known as the Scaffold Law, continues to drive up the cost of construction in the state. LRANY warned that the law would consume...
Feb 8 2016 // New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated Maria Vullo, an attorney and former staffer, as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).Vullo’s nomination comes eight months...
Feb 5 2016 // Breaking up is hard, especially when long- time partners have to decide who gets financial assets, property or even a pet. The split could be trickier, still, when one of the world’s most beloved dogs is...
Feb 3 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday that the New York State Department of Health will offer advanced lab testing for individuals with symptoms who have traveled to areas where Zika virus infection is ongoing.The...
Feb 2 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced three appointments to the state Department of Financial Services.These appointments follow Cuomo’s recent nomination of Maria Vullo to serve as the superintendent of DFS....
Feb 2 2016 // Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos belonging to National Basketball Association stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant in a popular video game.In...