All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 21 2018 // Exxon Mobil Corp. is refusing to turn over documents crucial to New York’s investigation into whether the oil giant’s public statements about climate change misled investors, the state’s top lawyer...
Jun 20 2018 // Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson and other opioid makers faced one of the first extensive reviews of their legal defenses to claims they violated consumer-protection laws and created a public nuisance with the sale...
Jun 19 2018 // Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is asking that a jury decide whether his insurer must defend him against 14 lawsuits accusing him of sexually harassing and assaulting women over several decades.Weinstein contends...
Jun 19 2018 // Fujifilm Holdings Corp. sued Xerox Corp. on Monday for well over $1 billion, faulting the printer and copier company for succumbing to pressure from activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason in calling off a proposed...
Jun 18 2018 // Kemper, InfinityKemper Corp. and Infinity Property and Casualty Corp. reported that the companies’ respective shareholders approved proposals related to the agreement announced in February under which Kemper will...
Jun 18 2018 // The New York Attorney General’s Office (NYAG) this year released a report outlining a record number of data breach notices filed with the office in 2017 – the highest since NYAG started receiving data breach...
Jun 15 2018 // Wholesale Trading Insurance Services LLC (WTIS) has hired Alex Megenis as a vice president and property and casualty broker in New York. Megenis most recently was a broker at Risk Placement Services, where he worked for...
Jun 15 2018 // MAPFRE Insurance has entered into definitive agreements with affiliates of The Plymouth Rock Company to exit the states of New York and New Jersey as part of MAPFRE’s previously announced strategy to focus on its...
Jun 15 2018 // A group of the world’s biggest oil companies asked a judge to throw out New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for costs related to climate change.ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron...
Jun 13 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has announced the acquisition of Buffalo, N.Y.-based H.R. Keller & Co. Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.H.R. Keller & Co. Inc.’s Eric Keller, Andrew Coric and...
Jun 13 2018 // New York’s highest court on Tuesday curbed the state attorney general’s ability to fight fraud on Wall Street, awarding a victory to Credit Suisse Group AG as it tries to end an $11 billion lawsuit over risky...
Jun 12 2018 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc., a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in New York City, has named J. Daniel Hickey as group chief underwriting officer.Hickey is based at AmTrust’s New York City...
Jun 8 2018 // A central New York orthopedic surgeon has been sentenced for running an ongoing scheme that defrauded the workers’ compensation system by nearly $87,000.Dr. Gregory B. Shankman, of Clinton, N.Y., was sentenced in...
Jun 8 2018 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has released a proposed increase in medical reimbursement to providers who treat workers’ compensation patients.The proposed medical fee schedule includes an...
Jun 6 2018 // USI Insurance Services (USI), an insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has named Danette Beck as its National Construction Practice leader. Beck will be responsible for growing USI’s construction practice, which...
Jun 6 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 released today shows.Lloyd’s newly issued City Risk Index, which...
Jun 5 2018 // A small plane carrying four people crashed off the coast of New York’s Long Island on Saturday, officials said.Two bodies had been recovered from the crash scene about a mile and a half south of East Hampton as of...