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Historical Analysis of Auto Thefts in New York, Massachusetts
Jan 12 2015 // Auto thefts in New York and Massachusetts have fallen by 90 percent or more from their peak years, according to a historical analysis by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). From its peak auto theft year in 1990...
2015 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 12 2015 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2015 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
The Walker Group Rebrands to AmWINS Brokerage of New York
Jan 9 2015 // Effective Jan. 1, 2015, The Walker Group, an AmWINS Group company, has changed its name to AmWINS Brokerage of New York to expand AmWINS Group’s brand in New York state. Located in Syracuse and Amherst, New York, The...
5 Arrested in N.Y. for Alleged Accident Staging, Insurance Fraud
Jan 9 2015 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the arrests of five individuals for their alleged roles staging auto accidents in New York’s Nassau and Suffolk counties to fraudulently receive insurance...
Magna Carta Cos. Appoints Yang as VP, Chief Actuary in New York
Jan 8 2015 // Magna Carta Cos. in New York has appointed Grace H. Yang as vice president and chief actuary. She will join Magna Carta’s senior management team and report directly to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Andrew L....
Farmers Files Suit Against Multiple N.Y. No-Fault Medical Providers
Jan 8 2015 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group announced that Farmers Insurance Exchange, one of the insurers comprising Farmers Insurance Group, and affiliates have filed a lawsuit in the state Supreme Court of New York...
Dwyer Joins XL Group’s Distribution & Network Team in New York
Jan 7 2015 // XL Group’s Distribution & Network team has added June H. Dwyer as Northeast regional lead. Based in XL Group’s New York office, Dwyer reports to Ken Riegler, head of XL Group’s North America...
Hub International Northeast Hires Giué as VP in New Jersey
Jan 7 2015 // Hub International Northeast, a division of Hub International Limited, has hired Ciro J. Giué as vice president and voluntary/worksite benefits practice leader of the Employee Benefits division. In this role, Giué will be...
AmTrust Acquires New York’s Oryx Insurance Brokerage
Jan 7 2015 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. announced that it has acquired privately held Oryx Insurance Brokerage Inc. from Oryx’s principals for cash. Further terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Oryx was established...
Hub International Acquires MMZ Associates in New York
Jan 7 2015 // Hub International Limited announced that its subsidiary Hub International Northeast Limited has acquired the assets of MMZ Associates Inc., a Westchester County, New York-based brokerage. Terms of the acquisition were not...
New York Knicks Heckler Tossed From Arena Sues Over Lost ING Job
Jan 7 2015 // A former ING Financial Services trader sued the owners of Madison Square Garden for booting him from the arena last year after he yelled “Carmelo, you stink” during a New York Knicks game, a move he said cost...
Alliant Acquires American Benefits Consulting in New York
Jan 7 2015 // Alliant Insurance Services, a specialty insurance brokerage firm based in Newport Beach, California, has acquired American Benefits Consulting (ABC), an employee benefits consulting firm in New York. Terms of the...
Cook Maran & Associates Hires 2 Client Advisors in New York
Jan 5 2015 // Cook Maran & Associates, an insurance broker with offices in New York and New Jersey, has hired Meaghan Sullivan and Caetlyn Fallon as client advisors. Sullivan and Fallon will both work in Cook Maran’s Personal...
Pedestrian Deaths Fall to Historic Lows in New York City
Jan 5 2015 // Pedestrian deaths are at historic lows in New York City after a push by City Hall to make streets safer. According to the New York Times, there were 132 pedestrian deaths from traffic accidents in 2014, the lowest since...
Workers’ Comp Insurers Unfazed by TRIA Failure For Now But Expect Quick Fix
Jan 4 2015 // The expectation that the new Congress that convenes this week will act quickly to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is keeping workers’ compensation insurers in particular from altering their...
New York Regulator Surveying Insurers on TRIA Risk
Dec 31 2014 // New York’s Financial Services Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky has directed insurers that are licensed to write commercial property or liability business lines in the state to submit information on how they are...
Corporations Warned Not to Hack Back
Dec 31 2014 // The hacked are itching to hack back. So say a dozen security specialists and former law enforcement officials who described an intensifying and largely unspoken sense of unease inside many companies after the recent breach...
Integro Re Hires Leotta as Principal in New York
Dec 30 2014 // Integro Re, the reinsurance division of insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro Ltd., has hired Joseph Leotta as a principal in New York. Leotta joins Integro Re from Falvey Insurance Group, where he served as...
Caution: Pulling Plug on Traffic Cameras Leaves Municipalities in the Red
Dec 30 2014 // Municipalities that installed traffic cameras to boost revenue are scraping for cash to fill budget gaps after complaints by irate drivers forced them to cancel their use. Nassau County on Long Island ended its program...
Insurers Dogged by Claims of Slanted Sandy Reports
Dec 28 2014 // When Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, flood insurance companies working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency dispatched an army of structural engineers to do some detective work. Their assignment: Find out how...
