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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...
New York Sues Capital One for Cheating Savings Depositors
May 15 2025 // Capital One was sued on Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who accused the bank of cheating depositors with its flagship “high interest” savings accounts out of millions of dollars in...
New York School District Sues Two Insurers Over Coverage for Child Victim Claims
May 8 2025 // A Long Island school district is accusing two insurers of ducking their responsibilities to defend and indemnify it against lawsuits by former students claiming they were sexually abused by an elementary school teacher...
Court Approves $750 Million Settlement for Survivors of Abuse by NY Gynecologist
May 7 2025 // Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian hospitals will pay $750 million to patients who sued over being sexually abused by a former gynecologist who was convicted of sex crimes in 2023. The settlement was achieved on...
World Insurance Acquires Upstate New York Agencies
May 6 2025 // Insurance broker World Insurance Associates LLC has acquired the business of Christopher Williams Agency and Barrett Millard LLC of Pittsford, New York. The Christopher Williams Agency began in 1961, and it purchased...
DoorDash Is Latest Tech Firm to Commit Millions to New York City Elections
May 6 2025 // DoorDash Inc. is committing $5 million to back political candidates in New York City and state-level races in New Jersey this year, becoming the latest technology company to disclose its lobbying efforts ahead of local...
11 Face Charges in NY School Hazing That Allegedly Included Staged Armed Abduction
May 5 2025 // Members of a high school lacrosse program in upstate New York are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players in a stunt that “went way beyond hazing,” prosecutors said this week. All 11 people...
Liberty Mutual Teams With WNBA Champion New York Liberty
May 2 2025 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has announced a multiyear partnership with the New York Liberty women’s professional basketball team. As part of the partnership, the Liberty Mutual logo will be prominently displayed on all...
Dashboard Shows New York City Paid Almost $2 Billion to Settle Claims in 2024
May 2 2025 // Last year, New York City settled 13,397 claims against it for a total cost of $1.94 billion, the most ever for one fiscal year, up from $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2023, the city’s financial monitor has...
People Moves: SmartChoice Chooses Caldwell as CEO; Griffin Promoted to Zurich US Head of Multinational Underwriting; Burns & Wilcox Names New York, Chicago Leaders
May 1 2025 // SmartChoice Names Caldwell CEO Andrew Caldwell Smart Choice, headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, restructured its executive leadership, naming Andrew Caldwell as CEO, while founder Doug Witcher has transitioned to...
New York High Court Unleashes Expanded Liability for Pet Owners
Apr 28 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...
Why New York and New Jersey Are at Risk of Spring Wildfires
Apr 25 2025 // The wildfire scorching southern New Jersey ignited despite a series of downpours in recent weeks — and the region is ripe for more blazes. April’s rains didn’t soak into the ground enough to prevent the fire...
Jury Again Finds NY Times Not Liable in Sarah Palin Defamation Case
Apr 23 2025 // A federal jury in Manhattan on Tuesday found the New York Times NYT.N not liable for allegedly defaming Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial about gun control, dealing the former Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate a...
Easter Sunday Fire in Crowded Home in Queens, NY, Takes 3 Lives
Apr 22 2025 // Three people died and a fourth was critically injured early Easter Sunday when a fire tore through an overcrowded home in Queens, that had no evidence of a working smoke detector and had blocked stairs and exits, fire...
New York’s Delayed Retail Worker Safety Act Goes into Effect June 2
Apr 21 2025 // Originally set to go into effect Jan. 31, New York’s new law going into effect June 2 offers workers more protections against workplace violence and harassment. The Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C),...
