All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 7 2013 // Hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, banned from the securities industry for five years by U.S. regulators, is also being banned for seven years from decision-making roles at Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance, a unit...
Oct 7 2013 // The New York City Marathon’s finish area will again fill with spectators, some carrying bags.More bomb-sniffing dogs also will be roaming around. Less than seven months after the attack on the Boston Marathon,...
Oct 7 2013 // New York State officials last month proposed a comprehensive set of rules to reform the “force-placed” – also known as “lender-placed” or “creditor-placed” – insurance industry in...
Oct 4 2013 // New York State is second in the nation, only behind California, for questionable workers’ compensation insurance claims. The Empire State jumped to the second place in 2012 from fifth in 2011, the New York Insurance...
Oct 4 2013 // Even when Superstorm Sandy killed their neighbors and flooded their house, Frank and Mary Lettieri vowed to stay in the Staten Island, New York, home where they raised five children.But with a popular home buyback program...
Oct 4 2013 // Personal lines insurance brokerage Confie Seguros, has acquired three additional brokers — two in New York and one in Texas. Terms were not disclosed.The insurance brokerages acquired are: James S. Sullivan Agency and...
Oct 3 2013 // Victims of Superstorm Sandy still fighting for a bigger insurance payment from the companies that administer the federal flood insurance program are getting a six-month extension to file critical paperwork.The Federal...
Oct 2 2013 // New York is looking into creating its first statewide early warning system for tornadoes.A bill signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo directs a review into the feasibility of installing a system. The system could involve...
Oct 1 2013 // The Obamacare insurance exchanges struggled to handle a flood of consumer interest that closed the U.S. website for much of the day, and caused start up delays for most of the marketplaces run by the states.In New York,...
Oct 1 2013 // Former AIG Inc. Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg lost a second bid to have a judge remove himself from an eight-year-old lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general’s office.Greenberg in July asked...
Oct 1 2013 // Homeowners’ insurance needs to be more standardized because customers are confused about what their policies protect, New York’s financial regulator said.Few fully understand all the complexities of their...
Sep 30 2013 // New York will use part of its share of billions of dollars in federal Superstorm Sandy aid to “fully compensate” storm victims who had flood insurance claims denied because of a hard-to-understand rule barring...
Sep 29 2013 // James J. Wrynn, Esq. served as New York’s Superintendent of Insurance from 2009 to 2012, when he joined the law firm of Goldberg Segalla LLP, which specializes in insurance law. His knowledge and experience are both...
Sep 27 2013 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week continued the state’s efforts to reduce distracted driving by unveiling special “Texting Zones” along the New York State thruway and state highways that will give...
Sep 25 2013 // The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is humbling forecasters by shaping up as the first in almost two decades without a major storm, confounding predictions that it would be more active than normal.It’s been two weeks...
Sep 24 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced this week that it has approved more than $1 billion in assistance to individuals and families in New York whose property was damaged or destroyed by Superstorm Sandy. This...
Sep 23 2013 // Selective Insurance Group in Branchville, N.J., selected John Marchioni as president and chief operating officer. Gregory Murphy, who remains chairman and chief executive officer, previously held the president...
Sep 23 2013 // Years before skyscrapers, when New York City’s tallest building was still the 281-foot spire of Wall Street’s historic Trinity Church, state lawmakers passed the Scaffold Law, which made property owners and...
Sep 22 2013 // New York City’s annual report card says the number of residents killed in traffic accidents plunged considerably over the last year.Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s management report said on Sept. 20 that in the...
Sep 19 2013 // New York State officials today proposed a comprehensive set of rules to reform the “force-placed” — also known as “lender-placed” or “creditor-placed” — insurance industry in...