All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 1 2025 // Two Brooklyn men have been charged with staging three automobile accidents and then seeking insurance payouts from Allstate Insurance Co. for damages and purported injuries.Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced...
Aug 1 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. is pushing back on a new NYC proposal requiring delivery app workers to display company-issued identification numbers on reflective vests, saying it “singles out” immigrant workers for...
Jul 28 2025 // Social media companies cannot be sued for their alleged roles in a racially-motivated mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo in 2022, according to a New York court that said to allow the lawsuit would “result in...
Jul 23 2025 // A man with a history of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests was charged Monday with setting fire to 11 New York City police vehicles last month.Jakhi McCray, 21, of Brooklyn pleaded not guilty to arson in U.S. District...
Jul 14 2025 // HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Chemical maker DuPont has agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve a nearly decade-long lawsuit over the contamination of an upstate New York village’s water supply.The deal was...
Jul 11 2025 // A New York state law holding gun manufacturers potentially liable when their weapons are used in deadly shootings was upheld Thursday by a federal appeals court.The ruling Thursday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Jul 7 2025 // A New York specialty insurance managing underwriter for contractors and construction risks has sued a New York City personal injury law firm and dozens of medical providers, alleging a wide-ranging scheme to defraud...
Jul 3 2025 // New York state was sued on Wednesday by the National Retail Federation over a new law requiring retailers to tell customers when their personal data are being used to set prices, known as surveillance pricing.The...
Jun 27 2025 // An insurance law professional and former state legislator has launched his own insurance brokerage in Tarrytown, New York.William Lindsay III has opened Tri Pack Insurance Services, which promises to offer “highly...
Jun 26 2025 // Visa defeated a proposed class action lawsuit on Monday by consumers who accused the world’s largest card payments network of failing to warn that its prepaid “Vanilla” gift cards were susceptible to...
Jun 23 2025 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Sunday, June 22, declared a state of emergency in 32 counties in response to severe weather.Three deaths in the town of Kirkland have been attributed to the severe thunderstorms that hit...
Jun 23 2025 // Elon Musk ‘s X sued Tuesday to try to stop New York from requiring reports on how social media platforms handle problematic posts — a regulatory approach that the company successfully challenged in California.New...
Jun 19 2025 // A New York specialty insurance managing underwriter for contractors and construction risks has sued a New York City personal injury law firm and dozens of medical providers, alleging a wide-ranging scheme to defraud...
Jun 18 2025 // The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be excluded from a state regulation requiring health insurance plans to cover abortions.The justices...
Jun 17 2025 // IICF Legacy Leaders honored for contributions to the foundation and local communitiesLOS ANGELES – June 16, 2025 – The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping...
Jun 17 2025 // MoneyGram agreed to pay a $250,000 fine to settle a New York state lawsuit over its remittance transfers, two months after the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau withdrew from the civil case.The accord announced on...
Jun 11 2025 // A judge on Monday dismissed the lawsuit that actor and director Justin Baldoni filed against his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively after she sued him last year for sexual harassment and retaliation.U.S....
Jun 11 2025 // Florida-based insurance brokerage King Risk Partners announced it has acquired Cameron Group, Inc., an independent insurance agency located in Nanuet, New York.Cameron Group serves New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut...
Jun 9 2025 // DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats have settled lawsuits against New York City over laws that boosted minimum wages for delivery workers and capped how much the companies could charge restaurants for delivering meals.The...
May 30 2025 // Liberty Mutual reported that it has reached a settlement with Travelers Insurance in a case involving a construction firm being sued by a man who was injured when he fell down an elevator shaft on a construction...