All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2022 // New York expanded workplace harassment protection for all public employees and banned the release of anyone’s employment records in retaliation for speaking up about alleged abuse, part of a package of new laws...
Mar 10 2022 // A cab driver who was wounded by an off-duty police officer in a 2011 road-rage shooting has settled his lawsuit against New York’s Nassau County for $2 million.Newsday reports that county legislative committees...
Mar 7 2022 // Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her head-on, killing her.She is one of the...
Mar 7 2022 // Insurer Beazley added Russ Cohen and Bala Larson to its global Cyber Services team.Cohen has been appointed head of U.S. Cyber Services, and Larson has been promoted to head of Client Experience. Cohen will oversee risk...
Mar 4 2022 // Victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks asked a U.S. judge to order the seizure of Iranian crude oil from a tanker owned by an American private equity firm, to help satisfy a $3.61 billion judgment against Iran over the...
Mar 4 2022 // A judge has rejected an effort by New York’s attorney general to put the National Rifle Association out of business, but will allow her lawsuit accusing top executives of illegally diverting tens of millions of...
Mar 3 2022 // Global supply chain pressures eased in February as backlogs and delivery times improved in several key markets and a measure of ocean shipping costs declined, according to new data from the New York Federal Reserve...
Mar 2 2022 // Cartier sued Tiffany & Co on Monday, accusing its luxury rival of stealing trade secrets concerning its high-end jewelry from an employee it lured away in December, in a sign competition in the fast-growing jewelry...
Feb 28 2022 // The man who served 16 years in prison for the 1981 rape of author Alice Sebold and was exonerated last year filed a lawsuit Friday against New York state for $50 million over his wrongful conviction.Anthony Broadwater, 61,...
Feb 28 2022 // ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)— New York’s ethics commission has shut down its online filing system as authorities investigate a “deliberate malicious cyberattack.”The Joint Commission on Public Ethics said late...
Feb 25 2022 // A Manhattan judge said Wednesday that lawyers for Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are seeking a new trial on her defamation claims against The New York Times, along with his removal from the case.U.S. District Judge Jed S....
Feb 25 2022 // New York wants to improve its cybersecurity defenses and will open a joint operations center in the coming months to coordinate between government agencies, critical businesses and utilities, Gov. Kathy Hochul said.Hochul...
Feb 24 2022 // Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her head-on, killing her.She is one of the...
Feb 22 2022 // Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts.Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without safety harnesses,...
Feb 22 2022 // A highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds on Long Island in New York, federal authorities confirmed Saturday.Samples from the flock were tested at the Cornell...
Feb 21 2022 // Truist Insurance, Kensington VanguardCharlotte, North Carolina-based Insurance broker Truist Insurance Holdings Inc. agreed to acquire the national title insurance agency Kensington Vanguard National Land Services. The...
Feb 21 2022 // Great American Insurance Group has promoted Jason M. Cohen to senior vice president and Julie F. Kadnar to divisional group president within its Property & Casualty Group.In 2006, Cohen joined the company as divisional...
Feb 18 2022 // A New York judge ruled on Thursday that former U.S. President Donald Trump and two of his adult children must answer questions under oath within 21 days in the state attorney general’s civil probe into their family...
Feb 15 2022 // A U.S. federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge said he...
Feb 15 2022 // At least six Chinese companies have lodged documents for New York listings in recent weeks, filings showed, promising an end to a months-long freeze after an unprecedented clampdown last year by Chinese regulators.However,...