All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2013 // For lawyers preparing to sue over Sunday’s deadly New York commuter rail accident, their success in court may depend largely on two factors: whether human error caused the derailment and if state or federal law...
Dec 4 2013 // The deadly train derailment in New York City may force railroads to install automatic brakes by 2015 and dash industry efforts to put off adding the technology by five years.The Metro-North Railroad wreck may persuade...
Dec 4 2013 // Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest U.S. art fair, will offer more than $3 billion of mostly postwar and contemporary works when it opens to a select group of collectors today, a 20 percent increase from two years ago.Held...
Dec 3 2013 // Bernard Turi, senior vice president, director of risk and reinsurance of Utica Mutual Insurance Company (a member company of the Utica National Insurance Group) was elected chair of the New York Insurance Association...
Dec 3 2013 // The Iroquois Group, a network of independent insurance agencies, appointed John Perry as a regional manager in New York State. Perry has an extensive insurance background in personal lines underwriting, personal lines...
Dec 3 2013 // Two years after being singled out for international honors, Metro-North Railroad finds itself facing a wave of retirements, under three federal safety investigations, and explaining to officials and riders why a locomotive...
Dec 2 2013 // The federal government has approved funding to start a $50 million flood-mitigation project along the Queens waterfront to better protect Howard Beach against rising sea levels and storm surges similar to those that caused...
Dec 2 2013 // The New York Dormitory Authority is borrowing $370 million this week to repay workers’ compensation claims, the first sale under a regulatory overhaul that Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo said will save $1.2...
Dec 2 2013 // A deadly derailment on a curve in Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line rekindled safety concerns and promised to snarl today’s commute for thousands of riders on one of New York’s major mass-transit...
Dec 2 2013 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) is pressing on with its effort to resolve the liability problems stemming from collapsed group self-insured trusts.WCB has been taking a multi-pronged approach to...
Dec 1 2013 // With an estimated 140 million Americans predicted to shop this weekend, retailers are bolstering security, deploying Segway patrols and putting on live music to distract shoppers and avoid the deal-hunting scrums that can...
Nov 27 2013 // The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) recently elected its 2014 officers and board of directors at the association’s annual meeting.The following officers were elected for a one-year term ending Dec. 31, 2014:...
Nov 27 2013 // Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has named Peter Gorman as interim chief executive officer of its North American subsidiary Cooper Gay Re following the departure of Ron Carlier.Carlier was appointed CEO of Cooper Gay...
Nov 26 2013 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) is pressing on with its effort to resolve the liability problems stemming from collapsed group self-insured trusts.WCB has been taking a multi-pronged approach to...
Nov 26 2013 // Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, the New York State Labor Department and the New York State Attorney General’s Office recently signed memoranda of understanding to work...
Nov 22 2013 // The patients, most of whom were on Medicaid and Medicare, came into the medical offices of Jose Katz for checkups and consultations. The vast majority would leave with false diagnoses of coronary artery disease and...
Nov 22 2013 // New Yorkers buying a health plan on the state’s new insurance exchange should read the fine print if they’re interested in getting care at some of the city’s top hospitals.Not all are participating in the...
Nov 21 2013 // USI Insurance Services recently moved its corporate headquarters from Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. to nearby Valhalla, N.Y. USI said its corporate headquarters moved to the new location, approximately 10 miles away from the...
Nov 21 2013 // A Long Island, N.Y., doctor has been acquitted of participating in a $275 million scheme to defraud no-fault auto insurers.Joseph Vitoulis had been accused of acting as the straw owner of a medical clinic. He allegedly...
Nov 21 2013 // December 11 Dinner Benefits CharitiesNEW YORK (November 4, 2013) — The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Northeast division announced that the three featured speakers who will be accepting grants for...