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State Judge Nixes Trump Damages Suit Against New York Times

May 5 2023 // Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times over a 2018 investigative series into his family’s wealth and tax practices was dismissed by a state judge Wednesday.The lawsuit accused the...

People Moves: Hunter Joins Lockton Re in Stamford; Risk Strategies Names Rosenzweig in New York

May 3 2023 // Hunter Joins Lockton Re in New Stamford Location Jaimie Hunter has joined Lockton Re as a senior broker supporting client development with a focus on casualty business in North America. Hunter will be based in Lockton...

Trial Begins for Limousine Firm Operator Over New York Crash That Killed 20 in 2018

May 3 2023 // Nearly five years after a stretch limousine packed with birthday revelers careened down a hill and off a road in rural upstate New York, killing 20 people, the operator of the company that rented out the vehicle is going...

New York City Transit Halts Service Alerts on Twitter After Suspension

May 2 2023 // Shortly after midnight last Thursday, several New York City subway trains slowed to a crawl as emergency crews tended to a person discovered on the tracks in Manhattan.The delays were flagged for the Metropolitan...

After Parking Garage Deadly Collapse, New York City Partly Shutters Four Others

May 1 2023 // After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects...

New York’s Yellow Cab Drivers Can’t Sue City Over Uber, Lyft Impact on License Values

Apr 28 2023 // New York’s top state court on Thursday threw out claims by yellow cab operators that New York City diminished the value of their taxi licenses by failing to rein in app-based competitors like Uber Technologies Inc...

New York Lawyers, Doctor Sentenced in $31 Million Trip-and-Fall Insurance Fraud

Apr 27 2023 // A New York surgeon and two lawyers are the latest professionals to be sentenced for their roles in a massive massive trip-and-fall fraud scheme between 2013 and 2018 that exploited some of the most vulnerable citizens of...

New York Woman Pleads Guilty to $27K in False Claims for Aquatic Treatments

Apr 25 2023 // Eunice Ting, of Watervliet, New York, pled guilty last Thursday to making a false statement to obtain benefits from the Department of Labor’s workers’ compensation program.According to prosecutors, Ting...

Tornado, Small Earthquake Hit Upstate New York

Apr 25 2023 // A minor magnitude 3.6 earthquake shook parts of upstate New York on Sunday afternoon. There were no immediate reports of significant damage.The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the earthquake struck at 2:10 p.m. with...

Hub Acquires Brady Risk Management of New York

Apr 20 2023 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited reported that it has acquired the assets of Brady Risk Management, Inc. of Huntington, New York.Brady Risk is a risk management, risk transfer and insurance firm that...

New York Names InnSure to Manage Clean Tech Insurance Innovation Project

Apr 19 2023 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the nonprofit InnSure will administer the state’s $6.5 million insurance innovation fund that includes grants to encourage the development of new insurance policies and...

Robot Dog. Stolen Car Tracker. Security Cone. New York Police Go High-Tech

Apr 14 2023 // New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago.The new devices, which also include a...

Latest E-Bike Fire in New York City Kills 2 Children

Apr 13 2023 // An electric bicycle powered by a lithium ion battery is being blamed for a fatal fire on Monday in New York City that killed two children, marking the latest in a string of e-bike-related fires in the city.FDNY Chief of...

Patriot Growth Acquires Petschauer Insurance of New York

Apr 6 2023 // National insurance network Patriot Growth Insurance Services has added Petschauer Insurance to its organization. Based in Garden City, New York, Petschauer offers property/casualty, employee benefits, life and disability...

2 Killed in Construction Trench Accident at New York’s JFK Airport

Apr 5 2023 // Two workers were killed in a construction accident at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday, officials said.The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said the two...

EEOC Civil Rights Suit Accuses New York Pizzeria of Harassing Transgender Cook

Apr 3 2023 // T C Wheelers, Inc., which operates T.C. Wheelers Bar & Pizzeria in Tonawanda, New York, violated federal law when management and employees harassed an employee because of his gender identity, the Equal Employment...

North Korean Hackers Posed as NY Times, Voice of America Staff

Mar 29 2023 // Suspected North Korean hackers are posing as journalists and trying to gather intelligence about international officials’ approach to nuclear security policy and Kim Jong Un’s government, according to new...

New York Surgeon Gets 36 Months in Jail for Role in $31 Million Trip-and-Fall Scam

Mar 27 2023 // A New York-licensed pain management doctor has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to obtain fraudulent insurance reimbursements and other compensation from fraudulent trip-and-fall...

TikTok, Transit Agencies Face Wrongful Death Suit Over New York Teenager’s Death

Mar 23 2023 // Chinese company ByteDance and its popular social media platform TikTok are facing a wrongful death suit in New York over the 2022 death of a teenager. The suit alleges that TikTok sent thousands of unsolicited suicidal...

Teen Driver in Crash in New York That Killed 5 Children Had No License

Mar 22 2023 // The 16-year-old driver in a crash that killed five young people did not have a driver’s license or permit and may have fallen asleep or become distracted before the SUV veered off a New York highway, officials said...