All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2019 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property, casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has hired John Sames to its Northeast region leadership team as director of operations and...
Mar 5 2019 // New York’s insurance regulator issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization’s primary insurance broker, a person familiar with the matter said. It came just days after President Donald Trump’s former...
Mar 5 2019 // Big news! Going by third-quarter state gross domestic product data that were just released, Connecticut’s economy is on track to grow more than 2 percent in 2018! That’s … not much. But it’s better...
Mar 5 2019 // U.S. insurers are pushing for the extension of a federal terrorism risk insurance program, hoping to fend off a possible gap that would leave their clients scrambling for alternate coverage.The program, which expires at...
Feb 27 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is dropping a proposal to ban all modified stretch limousines, an idea prompted by last fall’s crash that killed 20 people.The Times Union of Albany reports that the provision was...
Feb 26 2019 // More than 65,000 power outages have been reported in upstate New York after high winds rattled the region.Syracuse.com says 5,000 utility workers have been mobilized upstate. WGRZ in Buffalo said lake-effect snow combined...
Feb 25 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered two state agencies to investigate a media report that Facebook Inc may be accessing far more personal information than previously known from smartphone users, including...
Feb 22 2019 // A dropped thermos wedged between the brake and accelerator pedals of a charter bus may have been behind a 2017 crash in Flushing, New York, that killed three people, U.S. transportation investigators said Thursday.The...
Feb 20 2019 // Justice Clarence Thomas called for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan ruling, which protects news organizations from most libel suits when they write about public figures.Adding...
Feb 18 2019 // AmWINS, The Flood AgencySpecialty insurance broker AmWINS Group has agreed to acquire The Flood Insurance Agency, a Florida-based managing general agency that specializes in private market flood insurance. The Flood...
Feb 15 2019 // Police in Long Island, N.Y., say a construction worker has his legs severed below the knee when a steel plate knocked him into a hole and landed on him. Officials say the unidentified 39-year-old man was working to install...
Feb 14 2019 // Borrowers are behind in their auto loan payments in numbers not seen since delinquencies peaked at the end of 2010, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.More than 7 million Americans were 90 or more days...
Feb 14 2019 // A high-profile insurance fraud case on appeal in New York is being closely watched by fraud fighters across the country for the impact the decision will have on no-fault law.The case, Andrew Carothers, M.D., P.C. v....
Feb 13 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board’s probe of a fatal limousine crash in upstate New York has not yet identified a cause, according to a preliminary report released Monday, after weeks of wrangling between...
Feb 8 2019 // In most markets, when a buyer and a seller can’t settle on a price, they walk away. Medicine is different.Doctors and insurance companies often sort out who owes what only after a patient has been treated, especially...
Feb 7 2019 // David Johansen, John Waite and other prominent 1970s musicians filed lawsuits on Tuesday accusing Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and UMG Recordings Inc. of improperly refusing to let them reclaim rights to songs they had...
Feb 6 2019 // Relation Insurance Services, an insurance brokerage that offers risk management benefits and third party administrator (TPA) consulting services through its family of brands across the U.S., has entered into a definitive...
Feb 6 2019 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Steven Guthart as president and chief marketing officer.Guthart brings more than 30 years of industry experience to...
Feb 5 2019 // When Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York launched his statewide banking and insurance regulator several years ago, he picked an aggressive ex-prosecutor who’d spent years under his wing.Now, in naming his latest chief...
Feb 5 2019 // USI Insurance Services (USI), a provider of insurance brokerage and risk management, has acquired New York-based GFI Insurance Brokerage Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2003, GFI provides...