All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mar 22 2023 // New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed several bills into law to further regulate lithium-ion batteries sold in the city and strengthen fire safety related to the batteries used in e-scooters and e-bikes.Adams also...
Mar 20 2023 // The New York Senate has unanimously approved legislation that requires the disclosure of insurance information on permit applications for the construction of pipelines traversing any freshwater wetlands in the state.The...
Mar 13 2023 // The New York attorney general has won an order that stops gun companies from selling or distributing unfinished or unserialized gun parts used to assemble untraceable “ghost guns” to New York consumers.U.S....
Mar 9 2023 // Lawmakers in Albany and New York City are pushing measures they hope will curb incidents of lithium-ion battery fires, which have risen in the past few years.They include measures requiring that all batteries and chargers...
Mar 8 2023 // Insurer Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, and the data technology firm ICEYE have teamed up with New York City government agencies to develop a pilot parametric flood recovery assistance...
Mar 8 2023 // A New York federal judge has refused to lower the curtain on a Covid-19 business loss claim by the owner of five Broadway theaters because the entertainment insurance policy language is ambiguous as to whether the theater...
Mar 8 2023 // Apparently false fears of a shooting at a rap concert in Rochester, New York, sent a crowd surging toward the exits, killing one person and injuring nine others, police said.The injuries at Sunday night’s concert...
Mar 7 2023 // Global supply chains have “returned to normal,” the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Monday, with pressures dropping to the lowest since before the COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into procurement...
Mar 3 2023 // Four New York City ambulance workers who said they were disciplined for speaking to the media during the harrowing, early months of the COVID-19 pandemic have reached a settlement in their free speech lawsuit against the...
Mar 2 2023 // About 320 people arrested during a George Floyd protest in the Bronx on June 4, 2020, and who claim the police used excessive force and violated their civil rights, will each receive about $21,500 under a settlement...