All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2019 // The Democratic governors of New York and New Jersey each set goals to legalize recreational marijuana as part of their 2019 agendas, declaring in separate State of the State speeches Tuesday that new laws should raise...
Jan 16 2019 // The Iroquois Group, an Allegany, N.Y.-headquartered network of independent insurance agencies, has hired Charles Venus as its vice president of Middle Market & Specialty. Venus is based in Northern Virginia. The former...
Jan 16 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is seeking to end his state’s role as the nation’s collections department for predatory loans to small businesses.Cuomo plans to submit legislation to curtail the use of...
Jan 15 2019 // Berkley One, a startup insurance provider targeting the high net worth personal lines market, has expanded into Florida and Ohio.Working with select independent agents, Berkley One offers home, automobile, fine art and...
Jan 14 2019 // Federal investigators say they may recall employees furloughed under the government shutdown to start examining a limousine that crashed in upstate New York three months ago, killing 20 people. The National Transportation...
Jan 11 2019 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has fined Arch Insurance Company and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Penn., a combined total of $2.2 million in fines and ordered the insurers...
Jan 9 2019 // Acadia Insurance, a Berkley Company, has appointed Tim Morse as regional vice president and branch manager of its New York branch, effective January 1, 2019.He succeeds Joe Gresia, who on January 1, 2019, was appointed...
Jan 9 2019 // AXA XL has appointed Andrew Dicob to its Excess Casualty Insurance team as leader for the U.S. Northeastern region.Based in New York and reporting to Donnacha Smyth, president of Global Excess Casualty, Dicob will work...
Jan 8 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated his chief of staff and counselor Linda Lacewell as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS).The appointment was announced by Governor...
Jan 8 2019 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of The Rubin Group Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.The Rubin Group President Michael Rubin, along with his team, will...
Jan 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the attorney general of Massachusetts to obtain records from Exxon Mobil Corp to probe whether the oil company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil...
Jan 7 2019 // A New York City street and sidewalk collapsed Friday into a 40-foot-wide crater near a construction site as a gas line exploded and a water main ruptured.Authorities said no one was injured in the afternoon incident at...
Jan 7 2019 // From big data and blockchain to autonomous vehicles and new technology that isn’t yet on the radar, “change is inevitable” for the insurance industry in 2019.“Insurance companies, insurance...
Jan 7 2019 // Thousands of new riders have embraced the electric pay-per-minute scooters that have proliferated on America’s streets.Other people have set them on fire, tossed them off buildings and decorated them with dog...
Jan 7 2019 // Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has appointed Bill Creedon as Construction Industry leader for North America within its Corporate Risk and Broking segment. Creedon, a 30-year insurance and construction risk industry...
Jan 7 2019 // 2019 CIWA Industry DaysJan 6-8 Hilton La Jolla Torrey PinesLa Jolla, CACIWAwww.ciwa.net2019 Big ‘I’ Winter MeetingJan 9-12 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the ArchSt. Louis, MOIndependent Insurance Agents &...
Jan 3 2019 // The New York Thruway Authority has filed a lawsuit against multiple companies over the failure of four wind turbines.The authority says in its lawsuit filed Thursday the turbines located along the Thruway in Erie and...
Dec 31 2018 // A transformer explosion at an electrical plant set the skies above New York City ablaze in an eerie, pulsing blue light Thursday night, causing scattered power outages, delaying flights and sparking a social media storm of...
Dec 31 2018 // As Insurance Journal looks back on the most popular stories of 2018, its readers in the East region showed interest in a variety of topics from auto insurance to the September gas explosions in Massachusetts to state...
Dec 31 2018 // A lawsuit targeting California coffee houses for not including warning labels on their products tops the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform’s (ILR) list of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2018. This...