All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2019 // A growing number of cities and states want to turn climate change lawsuits against oil companies into the next tobacco or opioid litigation. In principle, that seems like a truly terrible idea. Such lawsuits will likely do...
Nov 5 2019 // A 36-year-old Queens, N.Y., man has been charged with insurance fraud, attempted grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly claiming his McLaren sports car had been stolen and filing a false insurance claim in an attempt...
Nov 5 2019 // The San Francisco startup that invented the groundbreaking Juul e-cigarette had a central goal during its development: captivating users with the first hit.The company had concluded that consumers had largely rejected...
Nov 1 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Matthew Westhoff as head of U.S. large commercial property based in New York.Reporting to Beazley’s global head of commercial property, Simon Jackson, Westhoff will manage the...
Oct 31 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired New York-based Avanti Associates Ltd., comprised of Associated Insurance Agency of Westchester Inc., Comprehensive Insurance Brokerage Inc. and Bruce Farnham Associates Ltd. The...
Oct 29 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Matthew Westhoff as head of U.S. large commercial property based in New York.Westhoff will manage the US-based team, working alongside the property team in London. He brings 16...
Oct 28 2019 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) has released a new report for policymakers and system stakeholders to track the performance of the New York workers’ compensation benefit delivery...
Oct 25 2019 // The state of Massachusetts sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors and consumers for decades about the role fossil fuels play in climate change.Attorney General Maura Healey filed...
Oct 25 2019 // Climate change protesters outside a Manhattan courthouse this week expressed overwhelming support for New York’s landmark securities fraud lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, even if they weren’t entirely sure what...
Oct 23 2019 // A lawyer for New York’s attorney general on Tuesday told a state judge Exxon Mobil Corp. used two sets of books to hide the true cost of climate change regulations from investors, while an attorney for the oil major...
Oct 22 2019 // Exxon Mobil Corp. on Tuesday will face trial in a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing it of misleading investors about the risks of climate change regulations to its business.The trial, expected to begin...
Oct 21 2019 // The Hilb Group, Damiano Agency, Handy-Apple ValleyThe Hilb Group LLC has acquired Rhode Island-based Damiano Agency. The transaction became effective July 1, 2019. For more than 30 years, DA has been delivering property...
Oct 18 2019 // A prosecutor says improperly billed brake work had nothing to do with the catastrophic brake failure on a stretch limousine that crashed and killed 20 people in rural upstate New York.District Attorney Susan Mallery said...
Oct 14 2019 // New York is seeking compensation for flood damage in Lake Ontario shoreline communities in a lawsuit against the international body that regulates waterways between the United States and Canada, New York Governor Andrew...
Oct 13 2019 // Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners won a temporary reprieve from nearly 2,700 opioid lawsuits, giving the bankrupt drugmaker time to clinch a deal that would atone for its role in America’s addiction...
Oct 10 2019 // Two years into the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of American workers are required to receive mandatory sexual harassment training, the result of a handful of new state regulations aimed at creating safer...
Oct 8 2019 // An estimated 40 U.S. state attorneys general will participate in a probe of Facebook Inc., a source said on Monday, suggesting many more states want allegations of anticompetitive practices at the social media company...
Oct 8 2019 // Two public school districts on Monday sued Juul Labs Inc, accusing the company of endangering their students and draining their resources by marketing its addictive e-cigarettes to teenagers.The St. Charles, Missouri, and...
Oct 8 2019 // The public cost of coping with the opioid crisis in the U.S. “dwarfs” the combined resources of the companies sued for allegedly causing the epidemic, including OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP, a lawyer for...
Oct 7 2019 // Relatives of some of the 20 people killed in an upstate New York stretch limousine crash urged quick action on safety legislation Thursday so other families won’t have to endure the grief they have carried for the...