Latest New York Headlines
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N.Y. Agency Advises Homeowners to Check Heating Oil Tanks to Prevent Leaks
Dec 1 2015 // The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is calling on homeowners who have oil furnaces to inspect their heating oil tanks for leaks that could lead to expensive cleanups. The agency says more than 2 million...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Sudden Collapse of Health Co-Op in N.Y. Leaves Doctors Owed Millions
Nov 30 2015 // The sudden collapse of the largest nonprofit insurance cooperative created by President Barack Obama’s health care law is causing headaches in New York, especially for medical providers owed millions of dollars for...
GM Does Not Have to Turn Over Privileged Ignition Switch Documents: Judge
Nov 30 2015 // General Motors Co. and its law firm need not turn over privileged documents to drivers hoping to show that the automaker intended to commit a crime or fraud by concealing defective ignition switches in their vehicles, a...
Doctor Sentenced to Prison in New Jersey Lab Referral Scheme
Nov 24 2015 // A Long Island, New York, doctor has been sentenced to prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving a New Jersey lab. A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, sentenced Brett Halper of Glen Head, New York, to 46 months...
Program Brokerage Corporation Hires Cunningham as Assistant VP in N.Y.
Nov 24 2015 // Jeffrey Cunningham Program Brokerage Corporation, a wholesale brokerage/managing general agency and a subsidiary of Hub International Northeast, has hired Jeffrey Cunningham as assistant vice president, Environmental...
GEICO 1st Auto Insurer in N.Y. to Offer Digital ID Cards for Policyholders
Nov 18 2015 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that GEICO has become the first insurer in New York State to complete the certification process through the Department of Motor Vehicles to allow customers to begin using electronic...
Excess Line Association of New York Hires Davis as Financial Director
Nov 18 2015 // The Excess Line Association of New York (ELANY) has hired James Davis as financial director. Davis will be responsible for the financial review and analysis of all eligible listed excess line insurers to verify their...
4 New York Business Owners Charged in Workers’ Comp Fraud Sweep
Nov 16 2015 // The New York inspector general’s office announced the arrests of four New York state business owners on fraud and theft charges as part of an ongoing series of investigations into employers and employees who defraud...
Ex-New York Senate Leader Skelos, Son Face Federal Corruption Trial
Nov 16 2015 // For the second time in a month, one of New York State’s biggest political figures is going on trial in a case brought by a federal prosecutor crusading against corrupt elected officials. Jury selection begins Monday...
Kingstone OK’d to Write Insurance in Connecticut, New Jersey
Nov 16 2015 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a New York-domiciled multi-line property/casualty insurance holding company, announced that its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company, was granted approval to write P/C insurance in Connecticut...
N.Y. Congressman Urges Investigation of State’s Handling of Health Republic
Nov 13 2015 // U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y., 19th district) formally requested New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli investigate the state Department of Financial Service’s oversight of the failed Health Republic...
More Firms Could Feel Heat from New York AG’s Climate Change Disclosure Win
Nov 13 2015 // The New York state attorney general’s office, which told Peabody Energy this week to give investors more details about how its sales would suffer from measures to curb global warming, is now mulling whether the...
NYC Mayor de Blasio Defends Traffic Safety Plan Despite Recent Deaths
Nov 12 2015 // Three people, including a child, crushed by a car that plowed into a group of trick-or-treaters. An 84-year-old woman run over by a charter bus that never stopped. A grandmother struck by a taxi driver finishing a 16-hour...
N.Y. Regulators Weigh Cybersecurity Requirements for Banks, Insurers
Nov 12 2015 // New York regulators are considering a host of cybersecurity requirements for banks and insurers and urged other state and federal authorities to collaborate on establishing a framework of defenses for the financial...
U.S. Charges 3 in ‘Securities Fraud on Cyber Steroids’ Scheme
Nov 11 2015 // U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a huge attack against JPMorgan Chase & Co. and generated hundreds...
N.Y. Authorities Take Additional Steps to Protect Health Republic Customers
Nov 11 2015 // New York state authorities say they are taking additional steps meant to protect people covered by Health Republic Insurance as it shuts down. The New York State Department of Financial Services and Department of Health...
Uber Gains Support From Upstate New York Mayors
Nov 10 2015 // Mayors of some of upstate New York’s largest cities have joined together to support Uber’s proposal to expand throughout the state. Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, Binghamton Mayor Richard David and Syracuse...
Kingstone Approved to Write P/C Insurance in New Jersey
Nov 10 2015 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a New York-domiciled multi-line property/casualty insurance holding company, announced that its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company, was granted approval to write P/C insurance in New Jersey...
KeyCorp Aims to Leverage First Niagara’s Insurance Brokerage Business in N.Y.
Nov 5 2015 // Financial services company KeyCorp, which recently announced its plan to acquire First Niagara Financial Group in Buffalo, New York, said the company would leverage and grow First Niagara’s insurance brokerage...
