All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 14 2021 // An employee cost a New York county at least $6,000 in electricity bills by allegedly secretly installing dozens of machines at his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme, authorities said Wednesday, announcing charges...
Sep 13 2021 // Drugmaker Endo International Plc on Thursday said it has agreed to pay $50 million to resolve lawsuits by New York state and two of its largest counties related to the sale and marketing of opioids.Endo said the settlement...
Sep 9 2021 // President Joe Biden declared climate change has become “everybody’s crisis” as he toured neighborhoods flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, warning it’s time for America to get serious about...
Sep 8 2021 // Following her visits to communities impacted by flooding from Hurricane Ida, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a request to President Biden for an expedited major disaster declaration.With presidential approval, the...
Sep 7 2021 // New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced that Adrienne Harris has been nominated to lead the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) as its next superintendent.Formerly a top economic advisor to...
Sep 7 2021 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued a circular letter to New York-regulated insurers to expedite Tropical Depression Ida-related insurance claims.On September 1, 2021, the remnants of...
Sep 2 2021 // The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency late on Wednesday as record-breaking rains from tropical storm Ida led to flooding and hazardous conditions on the roads, with media reporting at least...
Aug 30 2021 // A volunteer with the Hartland fire company was killed on Tuesday evening when a fire truck she was helping to direct reversed into her, authorities said.The Niagara County Sheriff’s office said several fire companies...
Aug 25 2021 // A Brooklyn, New York, man was charged for conspiring to defraud the IRS, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.Aleksander Zaretser is charged by indictment with conspiracy to defraud the IRS. He will be arraigned...
Aug 20 2021 // Tropical Storm Henri is set to grow into a hurricane before slamming the U.S. Northeast anywhere from Long Island to Massachusetts, bringing heavy rain, a flooding storm surge and thrashing winds to the region starting...
Aug 18 2021 // For two years, New York temporarily set aside its usual time limit on civil lawsuits in order to allow victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue churches, hospitals, schools, camps, scout groups and other institutions and...