All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2022 // Most New York City businesses on Tuesday will be required by law to add salary ranges to job ads, escalating a frenzy among employees and job seekers asking for pay increases in line with new postings.Nearly a third of...
Nov 1 2022 // New York’s highest court reversed a $4.5 million judgment against an insurer that denied a fire damage claim by the owner of a vacant commercial building because the owner had not installed an automatic sprinkler...
Nov 1 2022 // New York regulators failed to do all they could to sideline a poorly maintained stretch limousine that careened down a hill and crashed in 2018, killing 20 people, according to a state watchdog.State Inspector General Lucy...
Oct 31 2022 // The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, announced that it will extend coverage to out-of-state employees for the first time.Under the initiative, any New...
Oct 28 2022 // The FinTech Innovation Lab New York, a 12-week program to helps early- and growth-stage financial technology companies through collaboration with financial services and venture capital firms, is now accepting...
Oct 27 2022 // New York labor law requires a municipality to negotiate when terminating employees who are not at work for over a year because of an on-the-job injury, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled.The state’s high court...
Oct 26 2022 // New York insurance agents have lost their bid to overturn a state consumer regulation governing the sale of life insurance and annuity products that they believe is vague and exceeds the state insurance regulator’s...
Oct 26 2022 // Ten years after Superstorm Sandy pounded New York City’s coastal areas, taking 43 lives and causing $19 billion in damages, many resiliency projects remain years from completion and billions of dollars in recovery...
Oct 25 2022 // Independent insurance agency network Renaissance Alliance reports that it has expanded its presence in New York by adding three agencies to its membership. The newest members are Fraleigh and Rakow, with office locations...
Oct 21 2022 // Former President Donald Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who says he raped her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room.The deposition...
Oct 21 2022 // During the height of the pandemic, New York workers’ compensation indemnity payments increased while medical payments decreased.That’s according to a new report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
Oct 20 2022 // Amazon.com Inc. must face a claim that it failed to protect New York City warehouse workers and their families from COVID-19, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday while dismissing the bulk of the workers’ 2020...
Oct 19 2022 // Health insurance company EyeMed Vision Care LLC will pay a $4.5 million penalty to New York State for violations of the state’s cybersecurity regulation that officials said exposed hundreds of thousands of...
Oct 14 2022 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed New York to continue enforcing its new gun law as it considers a lower court ruling that would block key provisions.The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came...
Oct 13 2022 // New York Attorney General Letitia James has returned to court to stop Donald Trump and the Trump Organization from potentially evading the consequences of her recent lawsuit that charges them with fraudulent and illegal...
Oct 10 2022 // Two New York hospitals have agreed to pay more than $165 million to 147 former patients who have accused a former gynecologist of sexual abuse and misconduct.Columbia University Irving Medical Center and...
Oct 5 2022 // A New York state task force created after a 2018 limo crash that killed 20 people issued a safety report with recommendations including equipping the vehicles with side impact protection devices and taking them off the...
Oct 4 2022 // The Hilb Group reports that it acquired New York-based Abatelli Insurance Agency on Sept. 1, further expanding its presence in the tri-state area.Based in Whitestone, New York, Abatelli Insurance Agency is a...
Oct 3 2022 // A New York doctor last week pled guilty to performing unnecessary surgeries as part of a scheme by doctors and lawyers to obtain insurance reimbursements and other compensation from fraudulent trip-and-fall accidents,...
Sep 29 2022 // More than 30 insurers that have paid an estimated $39 million in lost cargo claims, along with cargo owners without insurance, have asked the courts to seize and sell the Japanese vessel ONE Apus to cover their claims.The...