All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2013 // USI Insurance Services announced that Rick Renna has joined the brokerage as vice president in the New York metropolitan office.Renna formerly served as sales executive at MagnaCare and vice president/financial services at...
Oct 24 2013 // A year after Superstorm Sandy, a new survey of small business owners and managers in the metropolitan New York City area found that nearly 30 percent of respondents affected by the storm would be forced to make staffing...
Oct 24 2013 // A year after Superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded hundreds of miles of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by bureaucracy, insurance...
Oct 21 2013 // USI Insurance Services has appointed Brian Golick as senior vice president. He is based in USI’s New York metropolitan office.Golick brings 25 years experience in employee benefits, sales, insurance account...
Oct 21 2013 // Southport Lane, a New York-based private equity firm, announced that Brandon Young has been appointed chief operating officer of its reinsurance holding company Southport Re and senior vice president of Southport Lane. In...
Oct 21 2013 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, appointed Teresa Black to the newly created role of senior vice president and chief operating officer for the ACE USA Surety unit. Black, who most recently served...
Oct 21 2013 // Almost a year after Superstorm Sandy, parts of New York and New Jersey are still recovering from billions of dollars in flood damage. And a new study says that in the future, storms smaller than Sandy may be able to...
Oct 21 2013 // The top New York court says property insurance against vandalism includes coverage for malicious damage that isn’t specifically aimed at the insured property.The ruling comes from a claim by Georgitsi Realty, owner...
Oct 18 2013 // When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as independent contractors to avoid paying insurance, taxes, fair wages and overtime.Danny Odom, chief operating...
Oct 17 2013 // Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in declining to give drafts of a book he’s writing to Maurice “Hank” Greenberg for Greenberg’s lawsuit...
Oct 17 2013 // Years away from the field, former National Football League players including Jim Brown, Preston Pearson and Reggie Rucker are set to clash in court with retirees Mark Gastineau, Dan Pastorini, Dave Casper and others.At...
Oct 17 2013 // Vanderbilt Properties Insurance Brokerage and Risk Management LLC, a New York-based specialist in insurance program administration for the real estate industry, promoted Alnoor S. Ladha to president and chief executive...
Oct 16 2013 // Rating agencies have downgraded Tower Group following the insurer’s announcement of loss reserve and goodwill charges in excess of what was expected.Tower has said that the company’s board of directors is...
Oct 16 2013 // Hiscox, the international specialist insurer, today announced that Angela Adams has been appointed as vice president, general liability underwriting leader, for Hiscox USA based out of the company’s New York...
Oct 14 2013 // New York City announced its first purchase of a home damaged by Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 10, acquiring property from a Staten Island woman whose husband and daughter were killed during the historic storm.Mayor Michael...
Oct 11 2013 // Former American International Group (AIG) Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg on Thursday won a short reprieve from New York’s case accusing him of orchestrating sham transactions at AIG.State...
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
Oct 10 2013 // New York State officials say 40,000 New Yorkers have signed up for health insurance in the first week of operation for the new state-run marketplace that includes low-cost plans. The NY State of Health says its website has...
Oct 10 2013 // When Superstorm Sandy slammed into New York City last October, much of abstract painter Ronnie Landfield’s life’s work lay submerged under 28 inches of water in his Manhattan studio, where he had lived and...
Oct 8 2013 // A continuing federal government shutdown could delay distributing federal aid to Hurricane Sandy victims, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned.Mayor Bloomberg said during his Oct. 6 radio address that it has become...