All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 20 2013 // New York officials are calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to include Hudson River communities in a $20 million study of flood-prone areas in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Sen. Charles Schumer says local...
Feb 19 2013 // The New York Court of Appeals recently found that the insured’s failure to read the insurance policy does not bar claims for broker negligence in failing to procure requested insurance.Almost one hundred years ago...
Feb 15 2013 // Authorities announced this week that a Utica, N.Y., woman has been sentenced for her role in an insurance and health care fraud scheme.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York said Cynthia...
Feb 14 2013 // Almost 163,000 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported among New York private industry employers in 2011, according to data published today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.That number translates to...
Feb 14 2013 // A bulletin by the National Flood Insurance Program helped spur quicker processing of Sandy flood-related claims.Prior to the bulletin, claims were adjusted according to the policy and guidelines established by the Federal...
Feb 13 2013 // Nearly $208 million in insurance payments in 6,600 checks haven’t been released from banks to victims of Superstorm Sandy, according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.N.Y. Gov. Cuomo says some $208 million in insurance...
Feb 12 2013 // The Navigators Group Inc. recently appointed Christopher Finneran as U.S. chief claims officer of Navigators Management Company Inc., the Group’s principal underwriting agency subsidiary. Finneran will be responsible...
Feb 11 2013 // The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will spend more than $2 billion to repair damage from Superstorm Sandy, but the agency’s executive director said last week that the ultimate financial impact should be...
Feb 11 2013 // Emergency crews and residents struggled to clear roadways and sidewalks from a storm that rampaged through the Northeast, dumping up to 3 feet of snow and bringing howling winds that knocked out power to hundreds of...
Feb 11 2013 // An international tribunal weighing in on Chevron Corp’s long-running legal dispute over pollution in Ecuador has found the country in violation of past orders to try to prevent enforcement of a contested $19 billion...
Feb 10 2013 // A blizzard packing hurricane-force winds hammered the northeastern United States on Saturday, cutting power to 700,000 homes and businesses, shutting down travel and leaving at least nine people dead.The mammoth storm that...
Feb 8 2013 // New York state’s highest court on Thursday said a trial must determine whether Travelers Cos. deliberately structured a nearly $1 billion asbestos settlement to force its reinsurers to pay more than their fair...
Feb 7 2013 // New York-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro announced the asset purchase of iTrade — a bonds and logistics brokerage division from Navigators Management Company. Navigators Management Company...
Feb 6 2013 // Lawyers for Standard and Poor’s, responding to a U.S. government probe, have tried for months to show it did nothing wrong in rating exotic securities in the run-up to the financial crisis.In one meeting, the...
Feb 6 2013 // A 66-year-old central New York man has been sentenced to 21/2 years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.4 million for staging a car crash to collect insurance.The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Syracuse says...
Feb 5 2013 // New York has started recruiting insurance companies to provide coverage through the New York Health Benefit Exchange created under national health care reforms.The exchange says that plans must provide comprehensive health...
Feb 5 2013 // Esther Tauscher stood outside her Staten Island, N.Y., home, leafing through boxes of family photos that had been steeped in storm water. She paused to point out life events — her honeymoon, holding her baby boy in a...
Feb 5 2013 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to spend up to $400 million to buy and demolish homes wrecked by Superstorm Sandy and permanently preserve the land as undeveloped coastline.New York Gov. Andrew CuomoA Cuomo administration...
Feb 5 2013 // Confie Seguros, a national personal lines insurance brokerage network, has acquired two additional agencies: Cannello Agency in Niagara, New York, and Moose Insurance in Oakland, Florida, as part of its strategy to build...
Feb 4 2013 // Standard & Poor’s said it expects to be the target of a U.S. Department of Justice civil lawsuit over its mortgage bond ratings, the first federal enforcement action against a credit rating agency over alleged...