All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 21 2020 // ENV Insurance Agency LLC of Liverpool, N.Y., has joined AssuredPartners Inc. The team of 26 will remain under the operational leadership of Ed Vaughn and Terry Engels. The agency currently reports $7.5 million in...
Jul 21 2020 // Everest Insurance has hired Dean DeBlasi to its Retail Property group as vice president and East region manager.In this role, he will be responsible for overseeing the retail property portfolio and developing and...
Jul 20 2020 // Law firm Mintz has added a group of five practitioners to its Insurance and Reinsurance Practice.Deirdre G. Johnson, Paul W. Kalish, Suman Chakraborty and Ellen MacDonald Farrell joined as members, and Elaine Panagakos...
Jul 16 2020 // A New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) report says the coronavirus outbreak that has afflicted nursing homes throughout the state may have resulted from staff and visitors unknowingly infecting residents early in...
Jul 15 2020 // The insured loss from Tropical Storm Fay will be close to $400 million, according to catastrophe risk modeling firm Karen Clark & Company (KCC).KCC said its estimate includes the privately insured wind and storm surge...
Jul 15 2020 // A federal judge won’t give preliminary approval to a proposed $18.9 million settlement between Harvey Weinstein and nine women who claim he sexually assaulted or abused them, saying the tentative deal isn’t...
Jul 15 2020 // The National Rifle Association will have to appear for a regulatory hearing over allegations it violated New York law by marketing an insurance policy for shootings that critics have dubbed “murder insurance.”A...
Jul 14 2020 // Coalition, a cyber insurance and security company, has hired Marcin Weryk as head of Business Development.Weryk brings more than 15 years of insurance industry experience as a cyber and technology E&O underwriter to...
Jul 13 2020 // Speed cameras made their U.S. debut in 1986 in Galveston County, Texas. The Swiss-made devices, dubbed “PhotoCops” by the local company that lent them to police departments in exchange for a cut of the ticket...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....