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Source Says Anbang in Talks with Kushner for New York Building Overhaul
Jan 10 2017 // China’s Anbang Insurance Group is in talks to invest in a project to redevelop a flagship New York City building owned by Kushner Companies, the family real estate business run by U.S. President-elect Donald...
How to Help Insureds Manage Customer Privacy Risk
Jan 9 2017 // Insurance carriers and agents have come to learn that increased data can lead to greater risk for insureds, and they are increasingly advising businesses to disclose data collection practices while seeking to gain...
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants Hires Delaney in New York City
Jan 9 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, a retail property, casualty brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has hired Melissa Delaney as a senior vice president in its Private Client Solutions Specialty...
JLT Specialty USA Appoints Turner as Vice President in New York
Jan 9 2017 // JLT Specialty USA has appointed David Turner as vice president in its Financial Institutions Practice in New York. The firm is a U.S. subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. (JLT), a specialty-focused provider of...
10th Annual IICF Northeast Charitable Gala in New York Raises Record $1.4M
Jan 9 2017 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization working with the insurance industry to help communities and enrich lives, had more than 900 insurance professionals attend its 10th annual...
New York Insurance Association Elects 2017 Officers and Board of Directors
Jan 6 2017 // The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) has announced the election of its 2017 officers and board of directors. The following officers were elected for a one-year term ending Dec. 31, 2017: Chair: Steven Coffey,...
Integro Insurance Brokers Appoints Morris as New York Operations Leader
Jan 6 2017 // Integro Insurance Brokers, a New York headquartered international broker and risk management firm has appointed Deborah Morris as its New York operations leader. She succeeds Esther Ro, who is relocating to the West coast...
Uber Prepares for First Public Hearing in New York Over Disclosure Rules
Jan 6 2017 // Uber Technologies Inc. is starting off the year preparing for a new political fight. As New York City seeks more information about ride-hailing drivers’ activities, it’s shaping up to be Uber’s second...
Sedgwick Elects Blancett as Office Managing Partner in New York
Jan 5 2017 // Sedgwick LLP, has elected John W. Blancett as an office managing partner (OMP) in New York, effective January 1. Blancett represents leading U.S., London and European insurers in litigation, investigations and counseling...
New York and New Jersey Brokers Join Forces, Backed by Prime Risk Partners
Jan 5 2017 // Cook Maran & Associates (Cook Maran), a New York and New Jersey based insurance broker, will acquire Mintz, Girgan & Brightly Inc. (MGB), a privately owned Rochelle Park, N.J., headquartered agency. The MGB team...
New York Issues First-in-Nation Regulation on Commercial Crime Insurance
Jan 3 2017 // New York State’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) in December issued a new regulation that prohibits insurance companies from denying commercial crime insurance coverage to New York businesses employing people...
New York Announces Health Insurance Reforms to Combat Opioid Crisis
Dec 30 2016 // Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that new health insurance reforms aimed at combatting New York State’s heroin and opioid crisis will go into effect January 1, 2017. These reforms were part of the legislative...
Markel to be Honored as 2016 Insurance Leader Of The Year in New York
Dec 30 2016 // Anthony F. Markel, vice chairman of the board at the Markel Corporation will be honored by The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University as the School of Risk Management’s 2016 Insurance...
New York Town Scrambling to Replace Vehicles Destroyed by Fire
Dec 29 2016 // Officials in a suburban Rochester community are scrambling to replace snow removal equipment after a fire gutted the town’s public works garage. The Christmas Eve fire at the town of Irondequoit’s Department of...
New York State DFS Issues Updated Proposed Cybersecurity Regulation
Dec 28 2016 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent Maria T. Vullo has announced that the DFS has updated its proposed cybersecurity regulation to protect New York State from the ever-growing threat of...
Startup Insurer Lemonade Is Going National; Files for Licenses Countrywide
Dec 22 2016 // Insurance startup Lemonade is eyeing a national expansion and has filed for licenses to operate in 46 states and the District of Columbia. The peer-to-peer insurer that is focused on renters and homeowners insurance is...
New York Financial Regulator to Delay Cyber Security Rules
Dec 22 2016 // New York’s financial regulator will delay an anticipated Jan. 1 deadline for banks and insurers doing business in the state to comply with controversial cyber security rules, a person familiar with the matter...
New York Regulates Crime Insurance Underwriting of Firms Hiring Ex-Convicts
Dec 21 2016 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday issued a regulation making it easier for businesses to hire former convicts by prohibiting insurance companies from refusing coverage for crime-related losses caused by...
Prosecutors Won’t Use Suspect’s Statement in New York, New Jersey Bombing Case
Dec 21 2016 // A federal prosecutor on Monday said the government won’t introduce at trial a lengthy statement from a man charged with setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey in order to keep to a scheduled trial date in...
QBE North America Appoints Hill as CFO in New York City
Dec 20 2016 // QBE North America, an operating division of global insurer QBE Insurance Group Limited, has appointed Kris L. Hill as chief financial officer. Hill will assume her new role effective January 17, 2017 and also serve as a...
