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New York City Subway Collision With Another Train Injured More Than 20 People
Jan 8 2024 // A New York City subway train derailed last Thursday after colliding with another train at low speed, leaving more than 20 people with minor injuries and causing major service disruptions across Manhattan during the...
People Moves: Gallagher Taps AIG’s Loesti as Chief Commercial Officer of European Broking; QBE Re Promotes 3 Global Product Heads in New York, London
Jan 5 2024 // Gallagher Taps AIG’s Loesti as Chief Commercial Officer, European Broking Nepomuk (Nepo) Loesti has joined Gallagher as chief commercial officer of its European broking operations. The newly created role will support...
OpenAI In Talks With Dozens of Publishers to License Content
Jan 5 2024 // OpenAI said it’s talking to dozens of publishers about striking deals to license their articles, a broader effort than was previously known as the startup looks for content to train its artificial intelligence...
New York City Sues 17 Bus Companies for Transporting Migrants From Texas
Jan 5 2024 // New York City on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing 17 bus companies of illegally transporting more than 33,000 migrants to the city from Texas as part of a campaign by the state’s Republican governor to expel people...
Medical Biller Charged With Stealing $1 Million in Workers’ Compensation Payments
Jan 4 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and arraignment of a New Jersey man for allegedly stealing more than $1 million that was intended to be paid to doctors who provided medical care to injured...
New York Fund for Injured Black Car Drivers Wins Surcharge Fight
Jan 3 2024 // The New York workers’ compensation fund for black car drivers was within its authority to impose a 2.5% surcharge on noncash tips that passengers paid to drivers, a three-justice panel of the Second Circuit Court of...
New York City Parkway Crash Takes 5 Lives
Jan 3 2024 // Five people died when the car they were in crashed on a New York City parkway Monday morning, police said. The Mazda was heading north on the Cross Island Parkway in the borough of Queens when it collided with another...
New York City Woke to Early Morning Tremor
Jan 2 2024 // The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a small 1.7 magnitude tremor occurred near the Astoria, Queens area of New York at about 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday January 2. The epicenter of the quake was about a half mile from...
Top East Insurance Journal Fraud Stories of 2023
Jan 2 2024 // About 10% of property/casualty insurance losses can be traced to fraud, according to the industry’s Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. Insurance Journal publishes an average of 22 fraud stories a month. Insurance...
New York Governor Again Vetoes Bill Allowing Emotional Damages in Wrongful Deaths
Jan 2 2024 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has again vetoed legislation that would have changed the state’s wrongful death statute by letting families recover damages for emotional suffering from the death of a loved one. Hochul...
Title Insurer Reports Another Cybersecurity Event; Fitch Monitoring Ratings
Dec 29 2023 // Less than a month after New York insurance regulators said a title insurer would pay $1 million for violations of a cybersecurity regulation stemming from a 2019 breach, the holding company for the insurer revealed a more...
Top East Insurance Journal Stories of 2023
Dec 29 2023 // Insurance Journal East readers showed keen interest in news about insurance agents’ responsibilities in 2023 including court cases involving an agent’s homeowner client with an unlisted dog; Harvard...
New York to Require Disclosure of LLC Ownership for Law Enforcement, Regulators
Dec 29 2023 // Law enforcement and regulatory officials in New York will soon have access to information on the ownership behind limited liability corporations (LLCs). Governor Kathy Hochul called the LLC Transparency Act (S.995B/A.3484)...
New York Governor Vetoes Bill Seeking to Make It Easier to Challenge Convictions
Dec 28 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have made it easier for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge their convictions, a measure that was favored by criminal justice...
New York Hospital to Pay $300K for Sharing Website Visitors’ Health Data
Dec 28 2023 // The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) will pay $300,000 for disclosing the health information of individuals who visited its website, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced. James said an investigation by her...
Microsoft, OpenAI Sued by New York Times for Copyright Infringement
Dec 27 2023 // The New York Times Co. sued Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc. for the use of content to help develop artificial intelligence services, in a sign of the increasingly fraught relationship between the media and a technology...
Tennessee Officials Sue BlackRock for ‘Misleading’ ESG Strategy
Dec 27 2023 // (Bloomberg) — The state of Tennessee sued BlackRock Inc. for allegedly breaching consumer protection laws by making “misleading” statements about its ESG investment strategy. State Attorney General...
New York Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Ban Noncompete Agreements
Dec 27 2023 // New York`s governor vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have banned noncompete agreements, which restrict workers` ability to leave their job for a role with a rival business. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who said she...
People Moves: Parkinson Joins Signers National; Baynes to Succeed Crawford at New York Municipal Reciprocal
Dec 22 2023 // Signers National, a specialty insurance agency group focused on commercial real estate, nonprofits and human service organizations, headquartered in New York, N.Y., hired Chris Parkinson as chief information officer...
Wegman’s Has Right to Question Injured Worker’s Doctor, Rules New York’s High Court
Dec 22 2023 // Wegman’s Food Markets was wrongly denied an opportunity to cross-examine an injured employee’s doctor, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled, overturning rulings by a workers’ compensation law judge,...
