All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 4 2014 // New York’s banking regulator asked Ocwen Financial Corp. for information about an insurance agreement that it says may be designed to funnel fees to an affiliate for minimal work.Benjamin Lawsky, the superintendent...
Aug 4 2014 // Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services (WTCI) has hired Jennifer Terra as vice president/casualty broker. Terra joins WTCI from Partners Specialty Group, where she specialized in the analysis and placement of complex...
Aug 4 2014 // Cook Maran & Associates, an independent agency based in East Hampton, N.Y., promoted four staff members to vice president. Named vice presidents are Neil Falkenhan, Josh Helfand, John Humann, and Jiyun Yuh. Together...
Aug 4 2014 // U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) says privately operated drone aircraft are posing a threat to safety and privacy and should be regulated by the federal government.The Democrat says New York has become “the wild...
Aug 4 2014 // Nearly 23 million private records of New Yorkers have been exposed in data security breaches reported by more than 3,000 businesses, nonprofits and governments over the past eight years, New York’s attorney general...
Aug 1 2014 // A retired Buffalo, New York, police officer will avoid jail but must pay back $6,400 after inflating a car insurance claim. U.S. Attorney William Hochul says 49-year-old Johnnie Fritz was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months...
Jul 30 2014 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers recently hired Patrick Rohan to join its New York office as an associate vice president. Rohan will focus on building the nonprofits and municipalities niche practices for Heffernan. Rohan is a...
Jul 30 2014 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former chairman of American International Group Inc., will go on trial in January after more than nine years of legal jousting over former New York Attorney General Eliot...
Jul 29 2014 // Two U.S. legislators urged the government to study whether American passenger jets should be equipped with devices protecting them against missiles like the one that brought down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine and...
Jul 28 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has entered the fiduciary liability market and named Rhonda Prussack as vice president, Fiduciary Liability, to lead the effort.According to Dan Fortin, senior vice president,...
Jul 25 2014 // New York State officials announced today rideshare firm Lyft has agreed to operate in New York City in full compliance with existing laws and regulations. The announcement comes two weeks after the state’s attorney...
Jul 24 2014 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday $175 million in funding to cover local governments’ costs to repair and rebuild infrastructure damaged by Superstorm Sandy.When participating in FEMA’s Public...
Jul 22 2014 // Apollo Global Management LLC’s dual stakes in an insurer and the largest operator of U.S. casinos are drawing scrutiny by New York’s top financial regulator, who doesn’t want policyholders exposed to the...
Jul 22 2014 // BNP Paribas SA’s $9 billion settlement with U.S. authorities, aided by internal whistleblowers, has spurred calls for federal banking regulators to protect and reward individuals who report wrongdoing by banks.The...
Jul 18 2014 // A former manager at a New York supermarket is due workers’ compensation benefits for his preexisting post-traumatic stress disorder condition, which was exacerbated during his employment because of threatening...
Jul 18 2014 // Federal data show New York ranked seventh among states with 1,168 highway deaths in 2012.The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration reports 33,561 road deaths that year nationally, up 3 percent from 2011. New...
Jul 17 2014 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and the state’s Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said today they would propose legislation that would help to shield New York women from the...
Jul 17 2014 // The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) announced in a bulletin yesterday that the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued an opinion and decision letter disapproving the +6.8 percent...
Jul 17 2014 // New York’s financial regulation chief is proposing a “BitLicense” regulatory regime that he says will protect consumers and root out wrongdoing without stifling innovation by virtual-currency businesses...
Jul 16 2014 // Ruth KilduffInsurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro appointed Ruth Kilduff as chairman, and Anne Anderson as president of its United States operations, Integro USA. Both Kilduff and Anderson are Integro...