All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2024 // Street parking was already scarce in Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to end traffic fatalities.For seven years now, the city of nearly...
Mar 5 2024 // A Florida woman who says she was struck and dragged by a New York City bus and left partially paralyzed has been awarded $72.5 million in her lawsuit against the city’s transit agency.A city jury found in favor of...
Mar 4 2024 // Artificial intelligence firms are facing increasing pressure from some of the world’s most formidable names in technology and media, as new tools spark fresh questions over the risks posed by chatbots that threaten...
Mar 4 2024 // Webster Bank, Ametros Financial Corp.Connecticut-based Webster Bank completed its acquisition of Ametros Financial Corp., a firm that administers medical claims settlements. Ametros provides post-settlement medical...
Mar 1 2024 // New York’s highest court has put contractors and property owners on notice that they are responsible for slippery surfaces caused by substances that might be very different than the substances they typically worry...
Mar 1 2024 // Marsh McLennan, headquartered in New York, appointed David Liston as U.S. and Canada chief commercial officer (CCO) effective immediately. Liston previously served as Marsh U.S. and Canada corporate segment leader, and...
Feb 29 2024 // The US Department of Justice has initiated an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth Group Inc., people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.The probe opens a new layer of scrutiny on the largest US health insurer that...
Feb 28 2024 // OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to...
Feb 28 2024 // A review of 14 horse deaths at Saratoga Race Course last summer found no definitive cause of why they happened, saying rainfall “could not be overlooked” as a factor.The Horseracing Integrity and Safety...
Feb 26 2024 // The longtime head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, misspent millions of dollars of the organization’s money, using the funds to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included exotic getaways and...
Feb 26 2024 // Nine companies that sell unfinished guns without serial numbers, used to make untraceable “ghost guns,” must face a lawsuit by New York’s Democratic attorney general seeking to halt their business in the...
Feb 22 2024 // A gang member who ran a fire restoration company has been convicted of using violence, threats of violence, and extortion to terrorize and dominate the fire restoration industry in New York City.After presiding over a...
Feb 22 2024 // Donald Trump’s planned appeal of a $355 million judgment against him in his civil fraud case may focus on the former president’s contention that there were no actual victims from his conduct at issue in the...
Feb 21 2024 // Months after a judge ruled that New York’s ethics watchdog violated the state constitution because it was too independent, a state lawyer told an appeals court that officials had the right to create a...
Feb 21 2024 // A woman who accused billionaire Leon Black of raping her two decades ago at the Manhattan mansion of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has ended her lawsuit against the Apollo Global Management...
Feb 20 2024 // Donald Trump won’t face the corporate death penalty after all.A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled in a civil case alleging Trump fraudulently misrepresented...
Feb 19 2024 // Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan headquartered in New York, hired Andy Stirk as United States chief growth officer.Stirk is based in New York, New York. With 20 years of insurance industry experience, Stirk rejoins...
Feb 19 2024 // No matter the business, customer referrals are always a welcome way to expand client bases and build trust within the marketplace. This is certainly true within the insurance space, where it is common practice for...
Feb 19 2024 // Workers’ compensation insurance is one of the costliest aspects of a construction project that carriers, construction managers, and businesses face. According to Insureon, construction carries the highest...
Feb 16 2024 // New York state’s highest court has affirmed that there must be direct physical loss or damage, not just presence of a virus, to trigger coverage under a commercial property policy for COVID-19 business interruption...