All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 16 2018 // Proposals to permit recreational marijuana use in New York state took a big step forward Friday when state health officials issued a long-awaited report concluding that the benefits of legalization outweigh the risks.The...
Jul 13 2018 // BNC Insurance Agency, Inc (BNC), an independently owned retail brokerage firm with headquarters in Rye Brook, N.Y., has acquired Murray, Schoen & Homer, Inc (MSH), also located in Rye Brook, N.Y. Terms of the...
Jul 12 2018 // Specialty insurance underwriter Ascot Group has appointed a new U.S. marine insurance team led by Chris Piazza as executive vice president and head of U.S. Marine Insurance.Piazza will lead all aspects of Ascot’s...
Jul 12 2018 // Alliant has hired Greg Andrews to its Employee Benefits Group as senior vice president in New York.With Alliant continuing to grow its employee benefits presence in the Northeast, Andrews will provide customized benefits...
Jul 9 2018 // Several PATH rail stations will close on weekends during the next four months to accommodate work on installing a federally required emergency braking system.The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said its World...
Jul 9 2018 // A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York on Friday convicted two men for their roles in an international scheme to make millions of dollars by illegally trading on corporate press releases that were stolen by computer hackers...
Jul 5 2018 // Affinion Group LLC, a subsidiary of Affinion Group Holdings Inc., has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to sell its insurance division, Affinion Insurance Solutions (AIS), to an affiliate of Mill Point...
Jul 2 2018 // Drivers for car services and ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft are usually on their own when it comes to buying health insurance, but starting Sunday in New York they will now be able to get coverage for vision care as...
Jul 2 2018 // Effective Coverage has acquired Brooklyn, N.Y.-based BungalowInsurance.com, an online renters insurance platform geared toward the modern generation. Effective Coverage, a specialty provider of renters insurance and...
Jul 2 2018 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. has appointed Frank M. Baron as president of Alternative Markets, a newly formed business unit within the company’s domestic specialty group.In this role, Baron will lead the...
Jul 2 2018 // New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood, joined by Attorneys General Xavier Becerra of California and Brian Frosh of Maryland, has led a lawsuit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for...
Jul 2 2018 // Cities in the U.S. and Canada stand to lose $92.96 billion per year to risks like market crash, cyber attack and flood, an index from Lloyd’s shows.Lloyd’s newly issued City Risk Index, which produces estimates...
Jun 29 2018 // Hospital outpatient payments were higher and growing faster in states with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations or no fee schedules, finds a study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) that compares 35...
Jun 28 2018 // Equifax Inc. on Wednesday avoided fines in a deal with eight states’ banking regulators over a data breach that compromised sensitive data of more than 145 million people, as the credit reporting agency agreed to...
Jun 27 2018 // Two workers have been killed by 800-pound slabs of countertop material that fell on them while being unloaded from a trailer in New York.The Niagara County sheriff’s office in New York says it appears 11 slabs of...
Jun 25 2018 // It’s time for reciprocity across states in insurance adjuster licensing, according to a new report.The study by the Pacific Research Institute into state licensing requirements,“Breaking Down Barriers,”...
Jun 22 2018 // A federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday that the structure of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional, forbidding the agency from suing a company that advances money to people awaiting...
Jun 22 2018 // Postmates Inc.’s couriers aren’t employees, a New York state appeals court ruled in a decision that will fuel debate about the status of workers in the gig economy.The appeals court panel in a 3-2 decision on...
Jun 22 2018 // Eight passengers have sued Southwest Airlines Co. over a catastrophic engine blowout in April that killed a passenger and injured several others.The plaintiffs, eight passengers from Flight 1380 on April 17 and one...
Jun 21 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...