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Tropical Storm Fay Heads to New York, Southern New England

Jul 10 2020 // Quick-moving Tropical Storm Fay strengthened as it moved toward southern New Jersey, where it was expected to make landfall Friday afternoon before sweeping north to New York with a curtain of heavy rain and thrashing...

Weinstein Reaches Tentative $19M Deal With Accusers

Jul 7 2020 // NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein and his former studio’s board have reached a nearly $19 million settlement with dozens of his sexual misconduct accusers, New York state’s attorney general and lawyers in a...

Aon’s Jackson Joins TigerRisk in New York

Jul 7 2020 // Industry advisory firm TigerRisk Partners announced that Joe Jackson has joined its North American team. Jackson joins TigerRisk from Aon, where he was managing director of Reinsurance Solutions. He joined Benfield (later...

State Judge Rejects Michigan Restaurants’ COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim

Jul 7 2020 // A trial court judge in Lansing, Michigan handed a victory to insurers in what may be the nation’s first final ruling on the question of whether a property insurer is liable for financial damages caused by a...

Return-to-Work Safety: Employers Find Testing Employees More Trouble Than It’s Worth

Jul 6 2020 // From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of Covid-19 and making fraught calculations about how to safeguard...

Business Moves

Jul 6 2020 // High Street Insurance Partners, Gates-Cole AssociatesTraverse City, Michigan-based High Street Insurance Partners has acquired Gates-Cole Associates in New Hartford, New York. Financial details of the transaction were not...

Car Crashes Became Deadlier During Lockdowns Across Globe

Jul 6 2020 // Coronavirus lockdowns led to reductions in traffic and fewer car crashes this spring, but as drivers sped up on quieter roads, the collisions became deadlier in several cities, a Reuters analysis shows.In New York City,...

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Agrees to Pay $678M to Settle Doctor-Bribe Claims

Jul 2 2020 // Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. agreed to pay $678 million to resolve a whistle-blower case accusing the company of paying kickbacks to thousands of doctors who prescribed its drugs and wooing them with lavish dinners and...

McDermott Will & Emery Adds Byrne to Its New York Office

Jul 1 2020 // International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is continuing to build its insurance-sector capabilities with the addition of Jane M. Byrne to its New York office. Byrne is the most recent arrival to the growing...

New York’s LiquidX Appoints Lynady as Managing Director

Jun 30 2020 // LiquidX has appointed Todd Lynady as managing director and global head of Insurance Sales and Business Development.In this newly created role, Lynady will be responsible for leading the firm’s sales, origination and...

New York Insurance Broker Arrested, Charged in $1M Fraud Scheme

Jun 30 2020 // A New York state insurance broker has been arrested and charged with wire fraud, attempted wire fraud and aggravated identity theft and is facing a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr....

Car Crashes Became Deadlier During Lockdowns Across Globe: Reuters Insight

Jun 30 2020 // LONDON – Coronavirus lockdowns led to huge reductions in traffic and fewer car crashes this spring, but as drivers sped up on quieter roads, the collisions became deadlier in several cities, a Reuters analysis...

Florida Counties to Crack Down on Businesses as Virus Cases Surge

Jun 25 2020 // This story has been updated from an earlier version:Floridians traveling to the New York City area will be required to quarantine as Florida’s new confirmed coronavirus cases skyrocketed by 5,500 Wednesday, a 25%...

Jewish Sleepaway Camp Operators Sue for New York Coronavirus Closures

Jun 25 2020 // A group of Jewish summer camp operators has filed a lawsuit against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his decision to keep overnight camps closed this summer due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Association of Jewish Camp...

World Insurance Associates Acquires New York’s Millennium Medical Solutions Corp.

Jun 24 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired Millennium Medical Solutions Corp. of Armonk, N.Y., on June 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Millennium Medical Solutions Corp. is an employee benefits...

Millions of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Pose Environmental, Health Risks

Jun 23 2020 // In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. The fumes made the retired couple feel nauseous, dizzy, and short of...

Fireworks Blamed for Fire That Destroyed New York Apartment Building

Jun 23 2020 // Fireworks may have started a fire that destroyed a three-story apartment building in Yonkers, injured 12 firefighters and left six families homeless, a fire department official said Sunday.The Journal News reported that...

A Picasso, an $18M Hole, a Casino Owner, an Auctioneer, an Insurer and a Contractor

Jun 23 2020 // Insurance specialist LeConte Moore and professional fine art appraiser Vincent Wiener deal with high-profile performers and artists and their works so hearing talk of big dollar figures is not unusual.Moore says he and his...

Health Workers Processing Shock of Virus Fight, Uneasiness in Current Quiet

Jun 18 2020 // Outside a back door to a hospital where the coronavirus hit like a hurricane, a half-dozen staffers gathered recently to look back, and look inward.“I am still scared,” Dr. Gwen Hooley told her colleagues at...

N.Y. AG Urges Apple, Google to Protect Consumers Using Contact Tracing Apps

Jun 16 2020 // New York Attorney General Letitia James has urged Apple, maker of the iPhone, and Google, developer of the Android operating system, to take steps to protect consumer information and privacy as New Yorkers and Americans...