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Sandy Could Force 250,000 Cars to Scrap Heap
Nov 8 2012 // Superstorm Sandy may consign as many as a quarter of a million new and used cars and trucks to the scrap heap, a loss that could eventually lead to a spike in new auto sales, automakers and dealers said. So far, automakers...
NYS Workers’ Comp Board: E-Claims Reporting on Schedule for 2013
Nov 7 2012 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board announced this week the “eClaims,” the electronic reporting of workers’ injuries, is on schedule for a 2013 implementation. The Board said it released...
Integro’s ReSource Intermediaries Unit Hires Senior VP in N.Y.
Nov 7 2012 // ReSource Intermediaries, a unit of N.Y.-based brokerage Integro, hired Beth Turbitt as senior vice president. Turbitt, who is based in the New York office, has been a consulting broker at ReSource Intermediaries for the...
Some Homeowners Unexpectedly Hit With ‘Windstorm Deductible’
Nov 7 2012 // In the immediate days after Superstorm Sandy, officials in the Northeastern states declared that hurricane deductibles would not apply to Sandy claims. Officials from northeastern states including New York, New Jersey and...
New York, New Jersey Order Evacuations Ahead of New Storm
Nov 7 2012 // [The National Weather Service updated its nor’easter forecast Wednesday morning. The agency said this strengthening coastal storm will impact northeast Wednesday into Thursday. A low pressure system off the...
Con Edison: 156,800 Customers in N.Y. Region Still Without Power
Nov 6 2012 // Consolidated Edison says power has been restored to more than 80 percent of its customers who were blacked out in the storm. The utility still had 156,800 customers without power at midday Monday. That included about...
Sandy Claims Figure Update From State Farm, Nationwide
Nov 6 2012 // Sandy-related claims are coming in at a fast pace, major insurers say. State Farm Insurance said it received approximately 90,000 Sandy-related claims (76,100 property claims and 13,900 auto claims) as of end of day Nov....
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Eases Insurance Rules for Documenting Storm Damage
Nov 6 2012 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, Nov. 5, that he is ordering insurance companies to ease rules on documenting Sandy-related damages during the claims filing procedure. The governor said that, at his direction, the...
Sandy Exposed Hospitals’ Lack of Disaster Preparedness
Nov 6 2012 // Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died in flooded hospitals cut off from power. She never thought that she might face that danger herself. But...
AIG: Sandy Losses Won’t Be a Huge Issue Financially
Nov 5 2012 // The American International Group executives are assuring investors that Sandy-related losses won’t have any significant impact on the company’s financial strength. Also, AIG announced in its Sunday, Nov. 4,...
Conn., N.Y. Workers’ Comp Among Most Expensive in Nation
Nov 5 2012 // Connecticut employers in the volunteer market pay, on average, the second-highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the country, according to a recent study. Connecticut’s premium rate index, according to...
N.Y. Auto Shop’s Lawsuit Against Progressive Moves Forward
Nov 5 2012 // A New York-based auto body shop has been allowed to move forward with its lawsuit that accuses Progressive Insurance Group Company and its affiliates of deceptive acts and practices. The ruling last month by the Appellate...
Conn., N.Y. Workers’ Comp Among Most Expensive in Nation
Nov 5 2012 // Connecticut employers in the volunteer market pay, on average, the second-highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the country, according to a recent study. Connecticut’s premium rate index, according to...
People – East
Nov 5 2012 // Dominic Casserley will succeed Joe Plumeri as the next chief executive officer of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, effective Jan. 2013. Casserley, 54, has been a senior partner at management consulting giant...
Sandy Claims Continue to Pour In at Quick Pace
Nov 2 2012 // Insurers said Sandy-related claims have been pouring in at a rapid pace in the immediate days after the storm — and that as some sense of normalcy returns, many more claims are expected. The Progressive Corp. CEO...
Insurers, Brokers Say Some Northeast Offices Still Closed Due to Sandy
Nov 2 2012 // Superstorm Sandy — and the widespread power outages and transport problems that followed — affected business operations of numerous companies in the Northeast, including those of insurers and brokers. Companies...
Is Global Warming to Blame for Superstorm? Scientists Weigh In
Nov 2 2012 // Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that...
Controversy Over Hurricane Deductibles May Just Be Beginning
Nov 2 2012 // When the National Hurricane Center declared Sandy a “post-tropical storm” just before it made landfall, a lot of homeowners across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Maryland may have saved a lot of money....
Hurricane Sandy Takes Toll on New York’s Small Shops, Restaurants
Nov 2 2012 // Pumping water out of basements and yanking rotten food out of refrigerators, shop and restaurant owners said on Thursday they wonder when the power will come back and, more importantly, how they will possibly recover from...
Scope of Hurricane Sandy Widens, Death Toll Rises
Nov 2 2012 // From New York City’s Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and officials on Friday faced growing evidence of widespread destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy, mounting anger over...
