All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2022 // New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s chief of staff, Frank Carone, was subpoenaed for documents in a $4.5 million federal civil racketeering lawsuit over alleged fraudulent insurance charges.The subpoena to Carone, who...
Feb 3 2022 // The Hilb Group reports it has acquired the Mark E. Malvaso Agency, building upon the company’s presence throughout New York state. The transaction became effective January 1, 2022. Based in Elbridge, New York, the...
Feb 2 2022 // The recently fired head coach of the Miami Dolphins has filed a scathing lawsuit accusing the National Football League of past and present unfair discrimination against Black coaches, players, owners, managers and...
Jan 28 2022 // New York Attorney General Letitia James said the state will receive the maximum amount of $230 million available under the $26 billion settlement agreement.with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors...
Jan 27 2022 // A municipality in New York may be held liable for wrongful action by an employee even though the employee was granted individual immunity.A police detective found liable by a jury for a false arrest was entitled to...
Jan 27 2022 // Employers in New York must disclose electronic monitoring, such as internet access and videoconferencing, to new hires under a new law taking effect in May, as workers contend with an employment landscape that’s...
Jan 26 2022 // The New York State Senate has voted to confirm Adrienne A. Harris as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS).Harris, a former economic advisor to President Barack Obama, was nominated by...
Jan 24 2022 // Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, has tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing a U.S. judge on Monday to delay her defamation trial against The New York...
Jan 24 2022 // Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, has spent 4-1/2 years battling the New York Times over an editorial she said falsely linked her to a deadly Arizona mass shooting that...
Jan 21 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, a national insurance agency based in California, has acquired the assets of New York-based Ginsberg Agency, the company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ginsberg...
Jan 20 2022 // A Congers, New York, contractor has been arrested after he was indicted on insurance fraud charges for allegedly underreporting his payroll by 89 workers.Anthony Frascone, 51, owner of Alpha-Omega, told his workers’...
Jan 20 2022 // A New York Post editor whose departure was announced Tuesday alleged she was fired two months after revealing to an executive that former editor Col Allan had sexually harassed her.The Post said any suggestion of...
Jan 19 2022 // Alera Group reports it has acquired Foa & Son, an international insurance broker based in New York City.Terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1861, Foa & Son maintains commercial practice groups in multinational...
Jan 19 2022 // Federal prosecutors have charged 13 people—including a New York City police officer, an attorney and four physicians—in two indictments that allege they schemed to defraud auto insurers out of $100 million by bribing...
Jan 19 2022 // New Yorkers who were sexually abused as adults could sue abusers in civil court under a bill that supporters are again urging the state to pass.The Adult Survivors Act would provide a one-year litigation window for those...
Jan 13 2022 // Investigators sought answers Monday for why safety doors failed to close when fire broke out in a New York high-rise, allowing thick smoke to rise through the tower and kill 17 people, including eight children, in the...
Jan 13 2022 // The deadly blaze in a Bronx apartment building was the second such tragedy at low-income housing in the U.S. this month, highlighting the stubborn link between poverty and deaths from residential fires.“It’s...
Jan 11 2022 // Doctors raced Monday to save survivors of New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades as authorities began investigating how thick smoke could billow through the high-rise, trapping many families inside and...
Jan 10 2022 // A lawsuit has been filed in federal court challenging New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace, asserting that the city’s...
Jan 6 2022 // More than 1 million customers’ passwords at 17 major retailers have been compromised in what’s known as “credential stuffing” attacks, New York Attorney General Letitia James said, warning...