All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2015 // New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the federal Employee Benefits Security Administration have agreed to share information and address violations of laws covering health insurance offered as worker...
Oct 6 2015 // Gemini Trust Company, founded by investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, has been granted a license to operate as a chartered limited liability trust company by the New York State Department of Financial Services, the...
Oct 5 2015 // Advocates for consumers, insurers, hospitals and doctors clashed on Oct. 1 at a Pennsylvania hearing on surprise bills for expensive out-of-network health care services sent to patients who thought their treatments were...
Oct 5 2015 // The New York City-based Montauk Credit Union, a large provider of loans to taxi medallion owners, was seized on Sept. 18 by New York State’s top financial regulator.The New York State Department of Financial Services...
Oct 5 2015 // Specialty program manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company Inc. promoted Brian Hanuschak to president. Hanuschak will be based in the firm’s Chevy Chase, Maryland, headquarters and report to Rob Byler, CEO of The...
Oct 5 2015 // Farmers Insurance, which began providing insurance and financial services to Connecticut consumers on Jan. 1, 2015, announced the opening of the company’s first territory office in the state.The new office, located...
Oct 2 2015 // National personal lines insurance broker Confie said it has acquired four insurance brokers with locations in Alabama, western New York and Florida.Confie acquired TS Insurance Group which specializes in non-standard auto...
Oct 1 2015 // U.S. energy companies said on Wednesday they were preparing for the possibility that Hurricane Joaquin could hit the New York City area early next week, potentially following the destructive course of Hurricane Sandy in...
Sep 30 2015 // New York State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D – Rockaway Beach) is reaching out to congressional representatives in Mississippi and Louisiana communities hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to encourage...
Sep 30 2015 // A new study looking back over 1,000 years finds the flooding risk along the New York and New Jersey coasts increased greatly after industrialization, and major storms that once might have occurred every 500 years could...
Sep 30 2015 // United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance) said it will pay $57 million for Interboro Insurance Co., a New York-based property/casualty insurer licensed to operate in four states and Washington, D.C.The deal involves...
Sep 30 2015 // Tropical Storm Joaquin jumped in strength and is forecast to become a Category 1 hurricane by Wednesday, even as computer models disagree on where it will end up.Joaquin’s top winds reached 65 miles (105 kilometers)...
Sep 29 2015 // Kindra Butler-Andersen Preferred Mutual Insurance Company in New Berlin, New York, hired Kindra Butler-Andersen as field sales manager. Butler-Andersen brings more than 22 years of industry experience to Preferred, having...
Sep 28 2015 // Worldwide Facilities, a wholesale broker and managing general agent based in Los Angeles, hired Bill Craane as vice president and New York Casualty Practice leader. He’s based in Worldwide Facilities’ New York...
Sep 28 2015 // Health Republic Insurance of New York, the Affordable Care Act insurer that got $265 million in U.S. loans, will stop selling policies and eventually cease operations under orders from New York and federal regulators.The...
Sep 25 2015 // New York State regulators have approved their first license to a company dealing in virtual currency such as bitcoin.Circle Internet Financial has outlined security, capitalization, controls against money laundering and...
Sep 25 2015 // Axis Insurance says the lawsuit brought against racing star Tony Stewart, whose car struck and killed another racer during a New York event in 2014, is not covered by the insurance policies it issued for Stewart.Axis...
Sep 25 2015 // Farmers Insurance, which began providing insurance and financial services to Connecticut consumers on Jan. 1, 2015, announced the opening of the company’s first territory office in the state.The new office, located...
Sep 23 2015 // Vanner Insurance Agency, an independent agency based in Amherst, New York, announced that it recently boosted its marine insurance business by acquiring Buffalo, New York-based agency Edmund D. Stevens Inc. and its marine...
Sep 23 2015 // Brit Limited, a global specialty insurer and reinsurer based in London, announce that it has made a significant strategic investment in Ambridge Partners LLC, a New York-based managing general underwriter of transactional...