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DuPont Agrees to $27M Settlement in Polluted Water Lawsuit in Upstate New York
Jul 14 2025 // HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Chemical maker DuPont has agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve a nearly decade-long lawsuit over the contamination of an upstate New York village’s water supply. The deal was...
Gun Makers Lose Appeal of New York Law Making Them Potentially Liable for Shootings
Jul 11 2025 // A New York state law holding gun manufacturers potentially liable when their weapons are used in deadly shootings was upheld Thursday by a federal appeals court. The ruling Thursday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Racketeering Suit Alleges NY Insurance Fraud Scheme by Lawyers, Medical Providers
Jul 7 2025 // A New York specialty insurance managing underwriter for contractors and construction risks has sued a New York City personal injury law firm and dozens of medical providers, alleging a wide-ranging scheme to defraud...
Retailers Sue New York to Block Algorithmic Pricing Law
Jul 3 2025 // New York state was sued on Wednesday by the National Retail Federation over a new law requiring retailers to tell customers when their personal data are being used to set prices, known as surveillance pricing. The...
Former Lawmaker Lindsay Launches New York Insurance Agency
Jun 27 2025 // An insurance law professional and former state legislator has launched his own insurance brokerage in Tarrytown, New York. William Lindsay III has opened Tri Pack Insurance Services, which promises to offer “highly...
Visa Defeats New York Man’s Proposed Class Action Over Gift Card Scam
Jun 26 2025 // Visa defeated a proposed class action lawsuit on Monday by consumers who accused the world’s largest card payments network of failing to warn that its prepaid “Vanilla” gift cards were susceptible to...
32 New York Counties in Emergency; Storms Take Lives of 2 Young Sisters, Woman
Jun 23 2025 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Sunday, June 22, declared a state of emergency in 32 counties in response to severe weather. Three deaths in the town of Kirkland have been attributed to the severe thunderstorms that hit...
Musk’s X Sues New York to Halt Reports on Handling of Problematic Posts
Jun 23 2025 // Elon Musk ‘s X sued Tuesday to try to stop New York from requiring reports on how social media platforms handle problematic posts — a regulatory approach that the company successfully challenged in California. New...
Racketeering Suit Alleges NY Insurance Fraud Scheme by Lawyers, Medical Providers
Jun 19 2025 // A New York specialty insurance managing underwriter for contractors and construction risks has sued a New York City personal injury law firm and dozens of medical providers, alleging a wide-ranging scheme to defraud...
Religious Organizations Get New Chance for Exemption From New York Abortion Rule
Jun 18 2025 // The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be excluded from a state regulation requiring health insurance plans to cover abortions. The justices...
IICF Gathers Insurance CEOs and Senior Industry Leaders to Discuss the Future of Work and Innovation at Global Leadership Conference in New York
Jun 17 2025 // IICF Legacy Leaders honored for contributions to the foundation and local communities LOS ANGELES – June 16, 2025 – The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping...
MoneyGram Settles With NY Over Transfers After US Consumer Bureau Quits Case
Jun 17 2025 // MoneyGram agreed to pay a $250,000 fine to settle a New York state lawsuit over its remittance transfers, two months after the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau withdrew from the civil case. The accord announced on...
Judge Dismisses Baldoni’s Defamation Suits Against Actress Lively, NY Times
Jun 11 2025 // A judge on Monday dismissed the lawsuit that actor and director Justin Baldoni filed against his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively after she sued him last year for sexual harassment and retaliation. U.S....
King Risk Partners Enters New York With Acquisition of Cameron Group
Jun 11 2025 // Florida-based insurance brokerage King Risk Partners announced it has acquired Cameron Group, Inc., an independent insurance agency located in Nanuet, New York. Cameron Group serves New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut...
DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats Settle Wage Lawsuits Against New York City
Jun 9 2025 // DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats have settled lawsuits against New York City over laws that boosted minimum wages for delivery workers and capped how much the companies could charge restaurants for delivering meals. The...
Liberty Mutual Settles With Travelers Over New York Subcontractor Coverage
May 30 2025 // Liberty Mutual reported that it has reached a settlement with Travelers Insurance in a case involving a construction firm being sued by a man who was injured when he fell down an elevator shaft on a construction...
New York Times Agrees to License Content to Amazon for AI Use
May 29 2025 // The New York Times Co. has reached a deal to license its editorial content to Amazon.com Inc. for use across its artificial intelligence platforms, marking the first such agreement the newspaper company has struck after...
New York City Employee Killed in Sewage-Boat Explosion on Hudson River
May 26 2025 // An explosion on a boat carrying raw sewage that was docked on the Hudson River in New York City killed a longtime city employee Saturday, authorities said. Another worker on the city-owned Hunts Point vessel was injured...
People Moves: Big I New York Elects Gonyo as Board Chair and 4 Regional Directors
May 23 2025 // Kelly Gonyo Big I New York, the trade association for independent insurance agents in New York, elected Kelly Gonyo as chair of the board for the 2025–2026 term. Gonyo is the founder and president of Blue Line Insurance...
New York High Court Unleashes Expanded Liability for Pet Owners
May 19 2025 // Dog and other pet owners and insurers in New York are now exposed to increased risk of liability in the wake of a Court of Appeals ruling that allows an injured party to bring an ordinary negligence claim against a...
