All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2018 // A New York man has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system by claiming he was out of work due to an injury while continuing to work at his family business.Jeffrey Smalt of Bath,...
Nov 27 2018 // Big I New York, the state’s oldest insurance producer trade organization, has appointed Scott W. Hobson as its director of government relations. In this role, Hobson is responsible for developing and advancing Big I...
Nov 26 2018 // The operators of a limousine that crashed and killed 20 people in upstate New York were grossly negligent in putting the “dangerous and defective” vehicle on the road, according to a lawsuit filed by one of the...
Nov 26 2018 // Frenkel & Company – an EPIC Company has hired risk management and insurance professional Michael Power as a principal.Power will be based in Frenkel’s New York, N.Y., office and report to Phil Remig, the...
Nov 20 2018 // Frenkel & Company – an EPIC Company has hired risk management and insurance professional Tandis Nili to join its operations in New York as senior vice president and leader of the Global Services Division.Nili is...
Nov 19 2018 // Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) has hired Adam Winfree as the company’s Virginia marketing representative.Winfree joins the company as a 13-year veteran of the insurance industry, having worked previously as...
Nov 19 2018 // It has been more than a year and a half since the New York Department of Financial Services’ cybersecurity regulations (cyber rules) came into effect, and yet another compliance deadline has passed.Broadly,...
Nov 16 2018 // The owner, doctor and attorney involved with a medical clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been charged for their alleged participation in a $1 million auto insurance fraud scheme.New York State Attorney General Barbara D....
Nov 14 2018 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Kenneth J. Jones as vice president.Jones brings more than 30 years of experience to SterlingRisk, meeting the needs of...
Nov 13 2018 // A New York man has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system by claiming he was out of work due to an injury while continuing to work at his family business.Jeffrey Smalt of Bath,...
Nov 8 2018 // Residents in New York’s Southern Tier and Finger Lakes region who were impacted by damaging storms and floods in August are eligible for financial help.Officials announced Friday that $13 million is available in the...
Nov 7 2018 // Federal transportation safety investigators will try to determine what caused a helicopter to crash into power lines during an inspection flight in northern New York, killing two people on board and injuring two others.The...
Nov 5 2018 // WKFC Underwriting Managers has hired Mark Reisig as chief underwriting officer of its Property division, based at the company’s headquarters in Melville, N.Y.Reisig joins WKFC with more than 30 years of property...
Nov 5 2018 // Arch Capital Group Ltd., a Bermuda-based provider of insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire McNeil & Co., a nationwide provider of specialized risk management...
Nov 5 2018 // Hays Cos., Brown & BrownBrown & Brown Inc. has agreed to acquire the assets of the Hays Companies insurance operations. The deal for the Minnesota-based insurance broker with $200 million in revenue marks the...
Nov 1 2018 // Two utility workers were killed and two others were hurt when their maintenance helicopter got caught on power lines and crashed in rural northeastern New York, state police said.Pieces of the aircraft dangled from power...
Oct 26 2018 // New York’s attorney general on Wednesday sued Exxon Mobil, saying the Texas energy giant has misled investors about the risks that climate change poses to its operations.The lawsuit filed by Attorney General Barbara...
Oct 25 2018 // Low risk, but low readiness.That’s the assessment for Long Beach, Calif., a city that’s close to my heart. For those who love numbers, the city has a risk score of 49.48, and a readiness score of 47.01. Not...
Oct 25 2018 // HMS Agency Inc. (HMS), a family-owned and operated insurance agency based in Albany, N.Y., has acquired Adirondack Family Insurance Services of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.The purchase agreement was finalized on July 1, 2018,...
Oct 25 2018 // Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. stood before a New York judge in August and told the state’s attorney general to “put up or shut up” after spending three years investigating the company’s public...