All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 20 2015 // What do New York’s most famous hotel, the Lloyd’s of London building and the headquarters of the U.K.’s top law firm have in common? They’re all owned by Chinese insurers.This new breed of buyers,...
Jan 16 2015 // A New York federal judge on Thursday largely rejected Sirius XM Holdings Inc’s request to reconsider her Nov. 14 decision in favor of members of the 1960s band The Turtles over the payment of royalties for songs made...
Jan 15 2015 // New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will propose legislation on Thursday that he says would make the state’s data security law the strongest in the country and require “unprecedented safeguards”...
Jan 14 2015 // New York’s turf war on wheels reached fever pitch Monday as City Council members grilled representatives of the app-based Uber service — a fierce competitor of the city’s 13,000 yellow cabs hailed with a...
Jan 12 2015 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced more than $3.7 million in grant funding to fight against motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud.The grant awards will go to district attorneys’ offices and police departments...
Jan 12 2015 // Arnold K. Davis Insurance, an independent agency in Purchase, New York, has recently merged with Eifert, French & Ketchum, an independent insurance and risk management agency based in Pelham, New York. Arnold K. Davis...
Jan 12 2015 // Auto thefts in New York and Massachusetts have fallen by 90 percent or more from their peak years, according to a historical analysis by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).From its peak auto theft year in 1990 when...
Jan 12 2015 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2015 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Jan 9 2015 // Effective Jan. 1, 2015, The Walker Group, an AmWINS Group company, has changed its name to AmWINS Brokerage of New York to expand AmWINS Group’s brand in New York state. Located in Syracuse and Amherst, New York, The...
Jan 9 2015 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the arrests of five individuals for their alleged roles staging auto accidents in New York’s Nassau and Suffolk counties to fraudulently receive insurance...
Jan 8 2015 // Magna Carta Cos. in New York has appointed Grace H. Yang as vice president and chief actuary. She will join Magna Carta’s senior management team and report directly to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Andrew L....
Jan 8 2015 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group announced that Farmers Insurance Exchange, one of the insurers comprising Farmers Insurance Group, and affiliates have filed a lawsuit in the state Supreme Court of New York...
Jan 7 2015 // XL Group’s Distribution & Network team has added June H. Dwyer as Northeast regional lead. Based in XL Group’s New York office, Dwyer reports to Ken Riegler, head of XL Group’s North America...
Jan 7 2015 // Hub International Northeast, a division of Hub International Limited, has hired Ciro J. Giué as vice president and voluntary/worksite benefits practice leader of the Employee Benefits division.In this role, Giué will be...
Jan 7 2015 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. announced that it has acquired privately held Oryx Insurance Brokerage Inc. from Oryx’s principals for cash. Further terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Oryx was established...
Jan 7 2015 // Hub International Limited announced that its subsidiary Hub International Northeast Limited has acquired the assets of MMZ Associates Inc., a Westchester County, New York-based brokerage. Terms of the acquisition were not...
Jan 7 2015 // A former ING Financial Services trader sued the owners of Madison Square Garden for booting him from the arena last year after he yelled “Carmelo, you stink” during a New York Knicks game, a move he said cost...
Jan 7 2015 // Alliant Insurance Services, a specialty insurance brokerage firm based in Newport Beach, California, has acquired American Benefits Consulting (ABC), an employee benefits consulting firm in New York. Terms of the...
Jan 5 2015 // Cook Maran & Associates, an insurance broker with offices in New York and New Jersey, has hired Meaghan Sullivan and Caetlyn Fallon as client advisors.Sullivan and Fallon will both work in Cook Maran’s Personal...
Jan 5 2015 // Pedestrian deaths are at historic lows in New York City after a push by City Hall to make streets safer.According to the New York Times, there were 132 pedestrian deaths from traffic accidents in 2014, the lowest since the...