All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 4 2016 // The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) announced that Steven J. Coffey, president and chief executive officer of Broome Co-operative Insurance Company (BCIC), has been elected to serve as the association’s chair...
Jan 4 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation to expand health insurance access to pregnant New Yorkers.The measure, signed by Cuomo on Dec. 22, would permit pregnant women to enroll in the state health insurance...
Jan 4 2016 // Scientists say a small earthquake has hit in northern New Jersey. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-2.07 quake hit just before 1 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 2, roughly 2 miles northwest of Ringwood, New Jersey....
Dec 31 2015 // As the year 2015 comes to a close, here’s a look at InsuranceJournal.com’s most popular East region news stories of the year. Among the 1,100 stories posted in the East region this year, the following were 50...
Dec 29 2015 // Oswego Valley Insurance Agencies LLC (OVIA), an independent agency based in Oswego, New York, with five additional offices in the Central New York region, announced that it has acquired Banach Insurance Agency in Pulaski,...
Dec 29 2015 // Bankers’ misdeeds would be cataloged, by name, on a private registry for hiring managers under a proposal that’s gaining traction as Wall Street firms struggle to restore reputations damaged by the financial...
Dec 28 2015 // New York State lawmakers returning to Albany for the usual debates over taxes and spending will also take on an issue even more basic to many New Yorkers — the options for getting home from the train station, the...
Dec 21 2015 // New York’s highest court has reinstated a medical malpractice suit against a Long Island hospital and the doctor and physician’s assistant who gave painkillers to a woman who subsequently crashed her car.The...
Dec 21 2015 // Markel Corp. in Richmond, Virginia, reported that Thomas S. Gayner, president and chief investment officer, and Richard R. Whitt III, president and co-chief operating officer, will serve as co-chief executive officers of...
Dec 18 2015 // Wells Fargo Insurance said it has hired more than 100 professionals in recent months as it seeks to grow and improve customer service.“Continuing to invest in talent is critical to the success of our business and...
Dec 16 2015 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s (IICF) 9th annual Northeast Benefit Dinner, held on Dec. 9 at New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, raised more than $1.26 million for regional charities.More...
Dec 16 2015 // Dana Kellerman Preferred Mutual Insurance Company in New Berlin, New York, has hired Dana Kellerman as director of Human Resources. Kellerman previously worked at General Electric for 15 years leading Global Service...
Dec 13 2015 // The former New York State Senate leader and his son were convicted on Dec. 11 of federal extortion charges, the second time in a month that one of New York’s most powerful politicians was run out of office by a...
Dec 11 2015 // Great American Insurance Group, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has launched a new Mergers & Acquisitions Liability Division.This unit, which is based in New York, will offer primary and excess representations and...
Dec 10 2015 // Law enforcement agencies in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are working together to boost security on New York’s public transportation network during the holidays. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive...
Dec 10 2015 // Some Northeasterners are beginning to wonder if a white Christmas may just be a dream, and business owners who rely on snow are starting to worry if warm weather could lead to a nightmare winter.In Maine, an outdoor sports...
Dec 9 2015 // Associates of Glens Falls Insurance, an independent agency in Glens Falls, New York, announced that it has acquired Loomis & LaPann Inc., an insurance brokerage unit of regional commercial bank Glens Falls National...
Dec 8 2015 // JLT Specialty USA, a U.S. subsidiary of London-based Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. (JLT), has hired Nikki Brown as senior vice president of the Fine Art, Jewelry and Specie practice. She is based in New York...
Dec 8 2015 // Federal funding for fire departments looking to buy new equipment or train new firefighters is down, putting pressure on local departments to do more with less. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says less than one in four...
Dec 7 2015 // Three former top executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP are likely to face another jury after prosecutors said they plan to retry them on charges tied to the largest law-firm bankruptcy in history.The government intends to...