All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 7 2015 // CNA Financial Corporation announced the appointment of Dino E. Robusto as its chairman and chief executive officer, effective on or about Dec. 1, 2016. Robusto will succeed Thomas F. Motamed who has decided to retire at...
Dec 7 2015 // New York regulators are considering a host of cybersecurity requirements for banks and insurers and urged other state and federal authorities to collaborate on establishing a framework of defenses for the financial...
Dec 4 2015 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that the New York State Police issued more than 14,000 tickets as a result of increased enforcement efforts this Thanksgiving weekend. The enforcement period kicked off on...
Dec 3 2015 // Markel Global Insurance announced that Alan Rodrigues has joined the Excess Liability team based in New York. He will assume the title of managing director and assume responsibility for developing a middle-to-upper-middle...
Dec 2 2015 // The conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has shaken New York politics down to the granite foundations of the state Capitol, provoking fresh calls to overhaul a system that has stubbornly...
Dec 1 2015 // The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is calling on homeowners who have oil furnaces to inspect their heating oil tanks for leaks that could lead to expensive cleanups. The agency says more than 2 million...
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Nov 30 2015 // The sudden collapse of the largest nonprofit insurance cooperative created by President Barack Obama’s health care law is causing headaches in New York, especially for medical providers owed millions of dollars for...
Nov 30 2015 // General Motors Co. and its law firm need not turn over privileged documents to drivers hoping to show that the automaker intended to commit a crime or fraud by concealing defective ignition switches in their vehicles, a...
Nov 24 2015 // A Long Island, New York, doctor has been sentenced to prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving a New Jersey lab.A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, sentenced Brett Halper of Glen Head, New York, to 46 months in...
Nov 24 2015 // Jeffrey Cunningham Program Brokerage Corporation, a wholesale brokerage/managing general agency and a subsidiary of Hub International Northeast, has hired Jeffrey Cunningham as assistant vice president, Environmental...
Nov 18 2015 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that GEICO has become the first insurer in New York State to complete the certification process through the Department of Motor Vehicles to allow customers to begin using electronic...
Nov 18 2015 // The Excess Line Association of New York (ELANY) has hired James Davis as financial director. Davis will be responsible for the financial review and analysis of all eligible listed excess line insurers to verify their...
Nov 16 2015 // The New York inspector general’s office announced the arrests of four New York state business owners on fraud and theft charges as part of an ongoing series of investigations into employers and employees who defraud...
Nov 16 2015 // For the second time in a month, one of New York State’s biggest political figures is going on trial in a case brought by a federal prosecutor crusading against corrupt elected officials.Jury selection begins Monday...
Nov 16 2015 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a New York-domiciled multi-line property/casualty insurance holding company, announced that its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company, was granted approval to write P/C insurance in Connecticut...
Nov 13 2015 // U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y., 19th district) formally requested New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli investigate the state Department of Financial Service’s oversight of the failed Health Republic...
Nov 13 2015 // The New York state attorney general’s office, which told Peabody Energy this week to give investors more details about how its sales would suffer from measures to curb global warming, is now mulling whether the...
Nov 12 2015 // Three people, including a child, crushed by a car that plowed into a group of trick-or-treaters. An 84-year-old woman run over by a charter bus that never stopped. A grandmother struck by a taxi driver finishing a 16-hour...
Nov 12 2015 // New York regulators are considering a host of cybersecurity requirements for banks and insurers and urged other state and federal authorities to collaborate on establishing a framework of defenses for the financial...