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IIABNY Voices Opposition to Expanding Wrap-Ups for Public Works Projects
Feb 10 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2016-17 fiscal year budget plan includes a proposal to expand the ability of certain governmental entities to use wrap-ups for public works projects — but an insurance...
Holborn Taps Gould Rabin as Senior VP in New York City
Feb 9 2016 // Stephanie Gould Rabin Holborn, an independent reinsurance broker based in New York City, has hired Stephanie Gould Rabin as senior vice president. In this role, Gould Rabin will be responsible for working closely with the...
Preferred Mutual Hires Forstenzer as General Counsel in New York
Feb 9 2016 // Andrew Forstenzer Preferred Mutual Insurance Company in New Berlin, New York, has hired Andrew Forstenzer as general counsel. Throughout his professional career, Forstenzer has served in multiple leadership roles. Most...
N.Y. Compensation Insurance Rating Board Names Attie as Next President
Feb 9 2016 // Monte Almer The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) announced that its Board of Governors has unanimously elected Jeremy Attie as NYCIRB’s next president after a recommendation from a Search...
Entergy Says Radioactive Water Leak at Indian Point Isn’t Safety Risk
Feb 8 2016 // Entergy Corp. said elevated levels of radioactive material found in groundwater at the 2,000-megawatt Indian Point nuclear power facility north of New York City don’t pose a threat to public safety. Increased levels...
P/C Retail, Wholesale Agency M&A Activity Brisk in 2015
Feb 8 2016 // When agency consultants at Reagan Consulting hosted more than 150 industry leaders at a workshop on agent/broker mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recently, the mood was upbeat, since many brokers have continued to enjoy...
New York’s Scaffold Law Under Scrutiny
Feb 8 2016 // The Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York (LRANY) said New York’s Labor Law 240, better known as the Scaffold Law, continues to drive up the cost of construction in the state. LRANY warned that the law would consume...
People – East
Feb 8 2016 // New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated Maria Vullo, an attorney and former staffer, as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). Vullo’s nomination comes eight...
In MetLife Breakup, Who Gets Snoopy the Dog?
Feb 5 2016 // Breaking up is hard, especially when long- time partners have to decide who gets financial assets, property or even a pet. The split could be trickier, still, when one of the world’s most beloved dogs is...
New York to Offer Free Zika Virus Testing for Symptomatic Travelers
Feb 3 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday that the New York State Department of Health will offer advanced lab testing for individuals with symptoms who have traveled to areas where Zika virus infection is...
N.Y. Gov. Announces 3 Appointments to Department of Financial Services
Feb 2 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced three appointments to the state Department of Financial Services. These appointments follow Cuomo’s recent nomination of Maria Vullo to serve as the superintendent of...
Are Tattoos Copyrightable? NBA Video Game Maker Sued for Using LeBron, Kobe Body Art
Feb 2 2016 // Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos belonging to National Basketball Association stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant in a popular video...
Hub International Northeast Announces 2 Promotions
Feb 1 2016 // Hub International Northeast, a division of Hub International Limited, has promoted Steven Guthart to president of Brooklyn, New York, operations. Prior to this new appointment, Guthart was senior vice president with the...
New York Man Gets 15 Years for No-Fault Insurance, Stock Fraud Scheme
Feb 1 2016 // A Long Island, New York, man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a $35 million fraud that a judge said wrecked investors’ lives. Mikhail Zemlyansky, 39, was led out of a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, Jan. 28, in...
Tompkins Insurance Acquires Shepard, Maxwell & Hale in New York
Jan 29 2016 // Tompkins Financial Corporation, a financial services company headquartered in Ithaca, New York, announced that its insurance agency subsidiary, Tompkins Insurance Agencies Inc., has acquired Shepard, Maxwell & Hale...
A Drunk Driving Case Made for TV’s ‘Law & Order’
Jan 29 2016 // I can’t be the only one who thinks they should bring back the original “Law & Order.” If NBC did, the show’s first case should be one that went on trial this week in a local court in Mineola,...
Snowed-Under East Coast Cities Getting Closer to Normal Routines
Jan 27 2016 // After more than three days with life at a virtual standstill in the nation’s capital and elsewhere up and down the East Coast, the cities hit hard by a massive snowstorm were getting closer to their normal...
RMS Examines Massive Blizzard That Swept Through East Coast
Jan 26 2016 // The massive blizzard that swept through the East Coast over the weekend may result in hundreds of millions of dollars in insured losses. The blizzard, unofficially named “Winter Storm Jonas” by the Weather...
N.Y. Group: Scaffold Law Will Consume Billions From Public Projects Spending
Jan 25 2016 // The Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York (LRANY) said New York’s “Scaffold Law” continues to drive up the cost of construction in the state and warned that the law would consume billions of dollars from...
Snowy East Coast Digs Out After Massive Weekend Blizzard
Jan 25 2016 // Millions of Americans started digging themselves out Sunday after a mammoth blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much of the East Coast to an icy standstill. New York and Baltimore began...
