All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 23 2015 // New York, NY, September 22, 2015 — Worldwide Facilities, LLC is pleased to announce that Bill Craane has joined the company’s New York City office in the position of Vice President & NY Casualty Practice...
Sep 21 2015 // Montauk Credit Union, a large provider of loans to taxi medallion owners, was seized on Friday by New York State’s top financial regulator.The New York State Department of Financial Services said the seizure was...
Sep 21 2015 // New York doctors, some of whom already pay 10 times more for malpractice insurance than physicians in San Francisco, may see their rates soar thanks to a state audit beginning this month.Physicians’ Reciprocal...
Sep 21 2015 // Holborn, an independent reinsurance broker based in New York, hired Roderick P. Thaler as executive vice president.In this role, Thaler will serve as a member of Holborn’s Franchise Operating Committee and will be...
Sep 21 2015 // Upstate New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield said on Sept. 10 that its computer systems and those at affiliates had been breached, exposing data from more than 10 million members, in the latest case to...
Sep 21 2015 // A California Labor Commission ruling in June that an Uber driver is an employee and not a contractor opens the door to more scrutiny over the rideshare giant’s business model, but that was just the proverbial tip of...
Sep 18 2015 // A federal appeals court has given the developer Larry Silverstein a new chance to recoup more money for rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York, on top of the $4.1 billion of insurance proceeds he has...
Sep 18 2015 // New York City will be the main testing ground for a smart device installed in vehicles to warn motorists of impending dangers and congestion, the U.S. secretary of transportation announced on Sept. 14.Secretary Anthony...
Sep 16 2015 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC, a specialized large account insurance broker and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., hired Jason Ross as casualty client executive, Northeast Casualty...
Sep 16 2015 // XL Catlin’s Specialty Insurance division has appointed leaders for its regional insurance products in its newly-created Americas region.The company named product leaders for accident and health, aviation, crisis...
Sep 16 2015 // New York State’s top lawyer told technology-firm executives he will “bring the full force” of his office against companies that mistreat their workers or cheat consumers.Speaking to entrepreneurs and...
Sep 14 2015 // Holborn, an independent reinsurance broker based in New York, hired Frederick M. Strauss as senior vice president.In this role, Strauss will be responsible for spearheading Holborn’s nationwide new business...
Sep 11 2015 // New York credit unions that have run up large exposures to the city’s iconic yellow cabs are facing a sharp increase in loan losses after a judge threw out a legal challenge to ride-hailing service Uber Technologies...
Sep 11 2015 // A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected efforts by American International Group Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign tax credits that the Internal Revenue Service...
Sep 11 2015 // Executives at Dan Loeb’s reinsurer, which is headed for its second-straight annual decline in New York trading, told investors not to count on a quick rebound in the industry as competition...
Sep 11 2015 // Fosun International Ltd., Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang’s conglomerate that has bought insurers and real estate around the world, proposed raising HK$11.7 billion ($1.5 billion) in a rights offer to fund its...
Sep 11 2015 // Upstate New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield on Wednesday said its computer systems and those at affiliates had been breached, exposing data from more than 10 million members, in the latest case to show...
Sep 11 2015 // A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a suburban New York town’s law banning day laborers from soliciting for work on public sidewalks, declaring its broad application could affect children selling...
Sep 9 2015 // Roderick P. Thaler Holborn, an independent reinsurance broker based in New York, hired Roderick P. Thaler as executive vice president. In this role, Thaler will serve as a member of Holborn’s Franchise Operating...
Sep 9 2015 // The collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf, once one of the biggest U.S. law firms, was due not to fraud by top executives but defections by its highest-earning partners, defense lawyers told jurors on Tuesday at the close of a...