All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2021 // New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday over its handling of worker safety issues around the COVID-19 pandemic at two warehouses, just days after the retailer filed its own lawsuit seeking to...
Feb 12 2021 // A Bronx, New York, woman has been arrested and charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $200,000 worth of iPhones from an insurance company.Rosanna Lucrecia Cruel Blanco, 39, was charged by criminal complaint with one...
Feb 12 2021 // Amazon.com Inc. on Friday sued New York’s attorney general to stop the state from filing its own lawsuit over the online retailer’s early response to COVID-19, including its firing of activist Christian...
Feb 9 2021 // A New York man has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud after being involved in a hit-and-run incident with a parked car in Hoboken, New Jersey.On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, Richard Hamedl of West New York pleaded guilty to...
Feb 8 2021 // A state judge ordered New York’s Department of Health to release records about nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 in a ruling that said the agency’s failure to do so already was a...
Feb 4 2021 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued new guidance spelling out best practices for New York-regulated property/casualty insurers that write cyber insurance. This serves as the first guidance...
Feb 3 2021 // New York may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents by thousands, the state attorney general charged in a report Thursday that dealt a blow to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s oft-repeated claims that...
Feb 2 2021 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent Linda Lacewell spoke with Elizabeth Blosfield during the most recent episode of the Insuring Cyber Podcast about how she has always seen New York as a...
Feb 2 2021 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has completed its 100th acquisition by acquiring New York-based Rampart Brokerage Corporation & Affiliates (RBC). The effective date of the acquisition was December 1, 2020.Headquartered in...
Jan 26 2021 // NFP, a New York, New York-based insurance broker and consultant that provides property/casualty, corporate benefits, retirement and individual solutions, has hired Daniel Beaudette as a senior vice president.Beaudette will...
Jan 25 2021 // The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department held at the end of December that Uber drivers can be considered employees eligible for benefits such as unemployment insurance.The finding upheld...
Jan 22 2021 // The submission deadline for the 2021 InsurTech Early-Stage Competition is approaching on January 29, 2021.Global insurtech hub InsurTech NY and the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA), Bermuda’s independent...
Jan 21 2021 // It has long been understood that under New York law, an insurance company may recoup defense costs paid on behalf of an insured once it has been ultimately determined that there was no coverage in connection with the...
Jan 11 2021 // Smith Brothers Insurance has acquired New York-based independent insurance broker Shank & Falvey Insurance, with locations in East Greenbush and Kinderhook.The acquisition expands Smith Brothers’ footprint in...
Jan 7 2021 // A Lutheran church in New York City already reeling from the COVID-19 deaths of more than 60 members of the congregation has suffered a new trauma: Severe flood damage from the rupture of a major municipal water main.The...
Jan 5 2021 // Two businesses and their owners have been charged with fraud against the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF).Manuel Sanchez and his business Lagos Construction have been charged with grand larceny and other crimes for...
Dec 30 2020 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired New York-based Hiram Cohen & Son Inc. (HCS). The transaction became effective on December 1, 2020.HCS, founded in 1919, is still operated by descendants of Founder Hiram Cohen,...
Dec 30 2020 // New York has reached an agreement with defense contractor Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy on a $406 million plan to clean up a massive plume of underground contamination left from Long Island’s heyday as a hub of...
Dec 29 2020 // A former New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) officer has pled guilty to forging paperwork falsely claiming military service so that he could take time off.Kyle Bouille, of Corning,...
Dec 23 2020 // The owner of a sports complex in the upstate New York city of Binghamton says he plans to rebuild after its air-supported dome collapsed under this week’s record-breaking snowfall.No one was injured when one of the...