All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 19 2019 // New York state sent out dozens of subpoenas to entities linked to Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners, the Sackler family, seeking documents that may show the movement of millions of dollars in profit from sales of...
Aug 16 2019 // The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals, the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are some of the targets named in a flurry of sex abuse lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York as the state began accepting...
Aug 15 2019 // Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), an operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, has acquired the assets of The Mechanic Group Inc. (TMG), a Pearl River, N.Y.-based specialty insurance program...
Aug 15 2019 // Boutique insurance recovery and entertainment firm Pasich LLP has expanded its national platform and New York footprint with the addition of Peter A. Halprin as a partner.Before joining Pasich LLP, Halprin was a...
Aug 14 2019 // Concord Specialty Risk has hired Ilan D. Peress as vice president and Reps & Warranty Insurance underwriter, where he will take on a leading role in Concord’s Reps & Warranty Insurance practice. Peress will...
Aug 13 2019 // Schools in New York state can now install cameras on the stop arms of school buses to catch motorists who put students at risk under legislation signed into law last Tuesday by Governor Andrew Cuomo.Drivers caught on...
Aug 12 2019 // Markel Corporation has named John Lecci as senior director of Professional Liability. He will be heading up the New York-based US Professional Errors & Omissions team.Lecci was most recently employed by Axis, where he...
Aug 9 2019 // SterlingRisk Insurance, an independently owned insurance brokerage based in New York, has hired Katrina Wu as assistant production Underwriter. A licensed property & casualty broker and licensed life, accident &...
Aug 7 2019 // New York Times Co. must face a defamation lawsuit by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin over an editorial that linked her to the shooting of Arizona lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords, a federal appeals court said.The ruling is a...
Aug 5 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation creating penalties for discrimination or retaliation against immigrant employees into law.This law is a codification of federal case law interpreting the...
Aug 5 2019 // The Doctors Company has completed the purchase of Hospitals Insurance Company (HIC), a New York State admitted and licensed insurance company, and FOJP Service Corporation, a New York service organization that provides...
Aug 2 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Reiff & Associates, a full service brokerage firm focused on risk and insurance for companies in the entertainment...
Jul 31 2019 // Capital One Financial Corp.’s assurances that a major data breach would have a limited impact on customers or profit failed to convince investors on Tuesday, with the bank’s shares closing down 5.9%.Capital One...
Jul 30 2019 // More than a year after the European Union implemented its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), U.S. insurers are examining what they can learn as they prepare for the implementation of similar data privacy laws in...
Jul 30 2019 // Big I New York has welcomed Jim Lombardo as the association’s AVP of Learning and Development.Lombardo will be responsible for expanding the association’s education and research offerings to meet the needs and...
Jul 25 2019 // An Ohio hospital paid the estate of astronaut Neil Armstrong $6 million in a confidential agreement to settle allegations that post-surgical complications led to Armstrong’s 2012 death, according to court documents...
Jul 25 2019 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a Northeast regional property and casualty insurance holding company, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company (KICO), has decided to no longer underwrite...
Jul 24 2019 // The U.S. Senate voted to replenish a fund that provides lifelong medical help and other compensation for firefighters, police officers and other first responders affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, sending the...
Jul 22 2019 // The death of a 3-year-old boy in a restaurant’s underground grease collection tank has prompted two state lawmakers to draft new safety legislation.Police say the child fell through an unsecured plastic cover over a...
Jul 22 2019 // An Ohio drug wholesale distributor and two former executives on Thursday were charged with profiting from the U.S. opioid epidemic by selling millions of pills despite signs the addictive drugs were being misused.Federal...