All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 22 2015 // Former New York Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos faces new charges he demanded illegal payments be made to his son Adam from the head of an insurance administrator seeking favorable legislation in Albany.The case stems...
Jul 22 2015 // A three-hour shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange on the same day that a network failure halted all United Airlines flights in the U.S. had people across the country thinking one thing: cyber-attack.It wasn’t, but...
Jul 21 2015 // A dispute is simmering between the ride-booking service Uber and New York Mayor Bill de Blaiso’s City Hall, an increasingly pitched disagreement playing out on smartphones, over the airwaves and in the press over a...
Jul 21 2015 // Utica First Insurance Company in Oriskany, New York, notified its independent agency partners last week that the company will withdraw from the Write Your Own (WYO) Program, a cooperative undertaking of the insurance...
Jul 20 2015 // More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge with a total reconstruction cost value estimated to be nearly $1.5 trillion, according to an annual report released by...
Jul 20 2015 // Liberty Mutual Insurance promoted Jamie Trish to president of its Northeast Business Insurance operations.Trish will be responsible for the profitable growth of business in the region that includes Connecticut, Maine,...
Jul 20 2015 // The New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division affirmed that a $5 million flood sub-limit in a builders risk policy that Zurich American Insurance issued to a New York property developer applies to the...
Jul 20 2015 // Amtrak recently reached a settlement with its primary insurers in a lawsuit in which the railroad operator sought to recoup additional proceeds for Superstorm Sandy losses from its insurers, according to court documents....
Jul 17 2015 // The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) announced on Thursday the launch of its new online medical provider portal.NYSIF said the new portal will allow registered providers and third party billers to retrieve claims...
Jul 17 2015 // Benjamin Lawsky’s bank-busting reputation may have earned him his own tribute in this week’s landmark Iran nuclear agreement.Lawsky was the first superintendent of New York’s beefed-up banking and...
Jul 17 2015 // Nestle Purina Petcare Co.’s Beggin’ dog treats may fool dogs into thinking they are mostly made of real bacon, but a federal lawsuit claims that humans may be misled too.The proposed class action by Paul...
Jul 16 2015 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has approved an average 5.9 percent increase in workers’ compensation loss costs for new and renewal business to become effective on Oct. 1, 2015. The...
Jul 16 2015 // Amtrak recently reached a settlement with its primary insurers in a lawsuit in which the railroad operator sought to recoup additional proceeds for Superstorm Sandy losses from its insurers, according to court documents....
Jul 16 2015 // QBE Insurance Group Ltd., Australia’s second-largest insurer by market value, agreed to sell its North American mortgage and lender services business to National General Holdings Corp. for $90 million.The transaction...
Jul 14 2015 // New York considers drivers for ride-hailing car services such as Uber freelance workers rather than employees, according to the city’s chief taxi regulator, a policy that supports the company’s business...
Jul 14 2015 // New York City reached a $5.9 million settlement with the family of an unarmed black man who died after being put in a choke-hold by a police officer.Eric Garner’s death in a confrontation over the sale of loose...
Jul 10 2015 // JLT Specialty Insurance Services Inc. (JLT Specialty USA), a U.S. subsidiary of London-based Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc., hired Joe Taccetta as executive vice president.Taccetta will be based in New York where he...
Jul 10 2015 // New York state troopers say they issued more than 10,000 tickets over the July 4th holiday weekend. State police once again this year beefed up enforcement against holiday drivers who were impaired, distracted, speeding or...
Jul 9 2015 // The New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division affirmed that a $5 million flood sub-limit in a builders risk policy that Zurich American Insurance issued to a New York property developer applies to the...
Jul 8 2015 // The New York Stock Exchange began reopening its two equity venues that were shut down for hours today by a computer malfunction.Shares started trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the biggest of the company’s...