All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 4 2019 // Gramercy Risk Holdings LLC, a Uniondale, N.Y.-based insurance holding company, has acquired Executive Insurance Company, a New York-domiciled admitted insurance company. Following the acquisition, Executive will be renamed...
Apr 4 2019 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based, independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Angelina M. Bocanegra as alternative market program director.In this role, Bocanegra will manage strategic growth within...
Apr 3 2019 // A New York judge last week dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine against the company last year.Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016,...
Apr 1 2019 // Ironshore Specialty Casualty has appointed Casey Hartley as senior vice president and head of programs. She will oversee the development, marketing and distribution of programs lines, working with programs administrators...
Mar 29 2019 // The billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma LP were sued by New York state for allegedly triggering a U.S. addiction epidemic with their marketing of the Oxycontin painkiller, just two days after the company agreed to pay $270...
Mar 29 2019 // Alliant has hired Francis Rossi as vice president.In this new role, the New York-based property and casualty insurance veteran will deploy his experience in finance, insurance and risk management to a portfolio of clients....
Mar 28 2019 // Alera Group, a national insurance firm, has acquired Phalanx Healthcare Solutions LLC, effective March 1, 2019.Located in New York City, Phalanx is an insurance and reinsurance broker of medical malpractice insurance for...
Mar 27 2019 // This writing presents a framework that if adopted by insurance agencies and carriers could simplify and minimize the cost of complying with the New York Department of Finance Regulation 23 NYCRR Section 500.11...
Mar 22 2019 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Debbie McLaughlin as program sales executive. In this position, McLaughlin will conduct market outreach on behalf of...
Mar 22 2019 // A Bronx County, N.Y., man has been arrested and arraigned on a felony complaint for an alleged insurance fraud scheme.Barrington Mayne, who is not an insurance broker, allegedly used his position and contacts at various...
Mar 21 2019 // A union organizing Amazon.com Inc. employees in New York has filed a complaint accusing the company of illegally firing one of the labor group’s most prominent supporters.The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store...
Mar 21 2019 // The billionaire family that owns opioid-maker Purdue Pharma LP has been accused by local governments in a new lawsuit of causing the nationwide public-health crisis involving pain-killing medicines that has left hundreds...
Mar 21 2019 // The National Rifle Association won permission from a judge to question a former New York regulatory official under oath in a lawsuit claiming the state illegally discouraged banks and insurers from doing business with the...
Mar 18 2019 // Most states ban texting behind the wheel, but a legislative proposal could make Nevada one of the first states to allow police to use a contentious technology to find out if a person was using a cellphone during a car...
Mar 18 2019 // One of humanity’s most private and pervasive hygiene habits is changing. And Sal Scapelito’s job is a sign that the trend may not be sustainable.Every two minutes, the 31-year-old sewage treatment worker cleans...
Mar 18 2019 // Nashville-based auto insurer The General has appointed veteran insurance executive Tony DeSantis to president and CEO, joining Chief Operating Officer Steve Tjugum as the company’s top leaders. Elicia Azali has been...
Mar 15 2019 // New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a $10 billion plan to push out the lower Manhattan coastline as much as 500 feet, or two city blocks, to protect from flooding that’s expected to become more frequent as global...
Mar 14 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Krauter & Company LLC, a specialty firm focused on the risk and insurance needs of private equity firms and their...
Mar 7 2019 // Lawyers for the operators of a limousine that crashed and killed 20 people in upstate New York say the deaths could have been caused by an act of God or the passengers’ failure to wear seat belts.The Times Union...
Mar 7 2019 // A series of hurricanes tore through Florida in 2005, and Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s business and residence in Palm Beach, was apparently very beaten up because Trump collected about $18.3 million in...