All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2021 // A New York litigation funder and the fifth member of a $31 million trip-and-fall fraud scheme has been arrested and charged in Manhattan Federal Court.An indictment has been unsealed charging Adrian Alexander with...
Oct 21 2021 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul has proclaimed October 2021 as Cyber Security Awareness Month in New York state. The announcement comes as part of the state’s effort to raise awareness on the importance of all New...
Oct 20 2021 // A Syracuse, New York, iron foundry cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for dozens of health and safety violations has agreed to correct 60 cited hazards,...
Oct 19 2021 // Two cryptocurrency lending platforms were asked to cease activities in New York by the state’s attorney general on Monday and three other platforms were directed to provide information about their business.The move...
Oct 18 2021 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) is mandating continuing education in flood insurance for property/casualty insurance producers in response to the increasing risk of flooding due to climate change....
Oct 15 2021 // Mosaic Insurance has opened an office in New York City. This is its first U.S.-based physical address for a growing number of employees.The Midtown South office, which will accommodate members of Mosaic’s cyber and...
Oct 13 2021 // Federal judges issued three different decisions on New York state and city requirements for Covid-19 vaccinations, upholding the status quo as the contentious issue winds it way through the court system.New York...
Oct 12 2021 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, acquired the assets of Safe Harbour Group Ltd. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Located in New City, New York, Safe Harbour...
Oct 5 2021 // InsurTech NY, a resource for the InsurTech community in the New York metro area, announced the launch of its Insurance Collaboration Index.Based on input from InsurTech executives, the index scores insurance and...
Oct 4 2021 // A plastics company in upstate New York agreed to pay $23.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it knowingly polluted well water with a toxic chemical.The Times Union reports the proposed settlement, agreed to...
Oct 4 2021 // The Allstate Corp. moved closer to its complete exit from the life insurance and annuity business with the closing of the sale of its Allstate Life Insurance Company of New York to Wilton Re for approximately $400...
Sep 30 2021 // Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Margaret Garnett announced the indictment of Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, Nursery, & Florist (DBLNF)...
Sep 29 2021 // New York City is planning to hire a private weather forecaster, install more drainage features and issue earlier and more aggressive warnings to residents under a new plan to respond to heavy rainfall like the deadly...
Sep 29 2021 // Sotheby’s must face a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing the auction house of fraudulently helping a wealthy art collector dodge millions of dollars of sales taxes, a state judge has ruled.The case...
Sep 27 2021 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Acting Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris announced new consumer protections in New York’s public adjusters regulation, which will become effective October 8. The...
Sep 24 2021 // A former insurance broker is going to prison for defrauding insurance companies and individual investors out of more than $1 million.U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Brian Bartz of Rochester, New York,...
Sep 24 2021 // Bolton Street Programs, a new Woodbury, New York-based program administrator that creates and administers affinity programs, is working to integrate insurtech, resinsurance, E&S options and loss control throughout its...
Sep 22 2021 // Acrisure, the global insurance broker and fintech services provider, announced it has entered the real estate services business through its acquisition of Tempo Title, one of the largest private title insurance and...
Sep 15 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Bedford Hills, New York-based Lloyd Bedford Cox. Inc. (LBC). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1921, LBC is a fourth-generation retail insurance agency providing...
Sep 15 2021 // A U.S. judge in New York on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a requirement that healthcare workers receive COVID-19 vaccines against the wishes of employees with religious objections.U.S. District Judge...