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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...
Vullo Nomination Signals Shift at N.Y. Dept. of Financial Services
Jan 25 2016 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signaled a shift in New York’s oversight of Wall Street, tapping a longtime corporate lawyer to run the state banking regulator previously overseen by an aggressive career law...
New York Legislators Examine Health Republic’s Failure
Jan 25 2016 // Hospitals and doctors told New York senators on Jan. 6 that they’ve got $200 million or more in unpaid bills because of last year’s financial failure of the insurance cooperative Health Republic, and they want...
Business Moves
Jan 25 2016 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, IHC Risk Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has agreed to buy IHC Risk Solutions and its direct employer stop loss (ESL) business from Independence Holding Co. for $152.5 million in cash. The...
New York Vehicular Homicide Case Tests Limits of Criminal Blame
Jan 22 2016 // A New York man is about to go on trial in vehicular homicide case that tests the limits of criminal consequences. He wasn’t behind the wheel when a police officer was struck and killed — he was leaning against...
Haylor, Freyer & Coon Adds 3 Managers in New York
Jan 22 2016 // Craig Van Epps Haylor, Freyer & Coon Inc., an independent agency based in Syracuse, New York, announced the addition of three new managers for its newly launched Private Client Division. The agency hired Craig Van...
Blizzard Heads Toward U.S. East; Airlines Cancel Flights
Jan 22 2016 // A dangerous winter storm will bring snow by the foot to the U.S. mid-Atlantic, including Washington, threatening at least 50 million people in its path while canceling thousands of flights and closing schools and...
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Nominates Vullo to Head Department of Financial Services
Jan 21 2016 // Maria Vullo New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today nominated Maria Vullo, an attorney and former staffer, as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). The nomination comes eight months after...
NYC Could Get $176M in Federal Money for Storm Protection System
Jan 20 2016 // U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, says New York City could get $176 million in federal money for a proposed storm protection system. The Democrat says funding would be awarded via a national contest created by the...
N.Y. Aims to Improve Storm Forecasts With Automated Weather Stations
Jan 19 2016 // Counting every raindrop or measuring every gust of wind is impossible, but New York is getting closer with a uniquely extensive statewide system of automated weather stations that should paint a dramatically clearer...
General Star Expands Architects & Engineers Program to Maryland, Virginia
Jan 15 2016 // General Star has expanded its admitted architects and engineers professional liability coverage to Maryland and Virginia. Entering the eighth year of the A&E program, Maryland and Virginia join New York, New Jersey,...
MetLife Spinoff Plan Could Add to Pressure on AIG to Split
Jan 13 2016 // After General Electric Co. began selling finance operations to exit too-big-to-fail status, American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Peter Hancock said it wasn’t clear that escaping the government...
AssuredPartners Acquires Archer A. Associates in New York
Jan 13 2016 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced that it has acquired the business of Archer A. Associates Insurance, an independent agency based in Franklin Square on Long Island, New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The...
Ragan Joins SMP Consulting Group in New York
Jan 12 2016 // SMP Consulting Group, a premium audit consulting firm based in Holbrook, New York, has appointed Edward Ragan as executive vice president of its aggregation/wholesale division, Specialty Markets Plus. Ragan has 35 years of...
New York Man Accused of Fraud in Collecting $82K From Workers’ Comp
Jan 12 2016 // New York authorities have charged a Niagara Falls man with larceny and insurance fraud, accusing him of collecting $82,000 from workers compensation over 13 years while self-employed. Inspector General Catherine Leahy...
