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Jan 23 2012 // Woodbury, N.Y.-based Sterling & Sterling appointed Leslie Nylund as president of the insurance brokerage. Nylund will be responsible for the firm’s operations, including sales, employee benefits, client services...
N.Y. Says Worker Injured on Break Entitled to WC Benefit
Jan 23 2012 // A New York court has ruled that a worker taking a short break does not constitute an interruption of employment, thus a worker injured during such a break is entitled to workers’ comp benefits. The Appellate Division...
Virginia, New Jersey Get High Marks in Building Code Report
Jan 23 2012 // The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, an industry group, issued a new report this month that analyzes residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico and the...
Auto Insurance Claim Costs Rising Again
Jan 23 2012 // Auto insurance claim costs countrywide have recently increased, reversing previous trends of declining or relatively stable costs, a recently released study found. An Insurance Research Council (IRC) report, “Trends...
Jay-Z Cleared of N.Y. Workers’ Comp Board Charge, Judgment Vacated
Jan 23 2012 // Jay-Z may have 99 problems, but missing workers’ comp insurance payments isn’t one of them. The previous judgment against the popular rapper and the court-ordered $18,000 fine have been reversed, according to...
N.Y. Examines Banks for Force-Placed Insurance
Jan 23 2012 // New York financial regulators are reportedly investigating several major banks to find out whether they fraudulently steered homeowners into more expensive home insurance. According to The New York Times, the office of...
N.Y.-based Navigators Group Adds Professional Liability Reinsurance Unit
Jan 20 2012 // Rye Brook, N.Y.-based specialty insurer The Navigators Group said this week that its principal underwriting agency subsidiary, Navigators Management Company, expanded its Navigators Re division by launching a professional...
Lawsuit Filed Over 2008 Outbreak at Six Flags New York Water Park
Jan 20 2012 // Some of the more than 600 people who fell ill while visiting an upstate New York indoor water park are part of a class-action lawsuit filed against the business. The Post-Star of Glens Falls reports that the lawsuit was...
New York Judge Drops Binladen Group as 9/11 Defendant
Jan 13 2012 // A Manhattan judge has dismissed a construction company founded by Osama bin Laden’s father as a defendant in Sept. 11 lawsuits brought by families of terrorism victims and others. Judge George Daniels dismissed the...
N.Y. Court: Worker Injured on Break Entitled to Workers’ Comp Benefits
Jan 11 2012 // A New York court has ruled that a worker taking a short break does not constitute an interruption of employment, thus a worker injured during such a break is still entitled to workers’ comp benefits. The Appellate...
N.Y.-based U.S. RE Hires Guy Carpenter Exec as Senior Vice President
Jan 11 2012 // Global reinsurance broker U.S. RE Corp. appointed reinsurance veteran James Nelson as senior vice president. Nelson is a reinsurance executive with more than 30 years of experience. He served more than 30 years at Guy...
Report: N.Y. Regulators Examine Banks Over Force-Placed Home Insurance
Jan 11 2012 // New York financial regulators are reportedly investigating several major banks to find out whether they fraudulently steered homeowners into more expensive home insurance. According to The New York Times, the office of...
Heffernan Hires Fonseca as VP of Construction Practice in New York
Jan 11 2012 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers, an independent insurance brokerage headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., hired Victor Fonseca to join its New York office as vice president of construction practice. Fonseca brings over 17...
Endurance Promotes Boland to Senior VP in New York Office
Jan 10 2012 // Endurance Specialty Holdings promoted Mark Boland to the position of senior vice president, primary casualty insurance. In his new role, Boland will lead Endurance’s U.S. wholesale primary casualty insurance...
New York Officials to Implement Pharmacy Safety Program
Jan 10 2012 // Officials on Long Island, N.Y., are implementing a program to safeguard pharmacies in the wake of several deadly robberies. The Suffolk County initiative consists of training police and pharmacy personnel, increasing Crime...
Lockton Hires Willis Exec as Real Estate Practice Leader in New York
Jan 9 2012 // Lockton Companies appointed industry veteran Michael Power as senior vice president and Northeast real estate practice leader. Based in the insurance broker’s Manhattan, New York, office, Power will be responsible...
People
Jan 9 2012 // Starr Companies appointed Ed Navarro as head of international insurance operations. Navarro will drive Starr’s expansion for areas outside of the U.S. He’s been serving as global head of accident and health...
Charity Foundation Raises $1.2M
Jan 9 2012 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) New York/Northeast division had a packed charity dinner event last month. It was held on Dec. 14 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York and drew more than 900...
Heffernan Hires McMurray as Account Executive in New York Office
Jan 6 2012 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers, an independent insurance brokerage headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., has hired Elizabeth McMurray to join its Manhattan office in New York as account executive. McMurray has over 20 years...
Two N.Y. Port Authority Retirees Sue Over Revoked Lifetime Toll Passes
Jan 5 2012 // Two retired Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers who became lawyers have filed lawsuits because the agency revoked lifetime toll and parking passes. Thomas Westfield filed suit on behalf of himself and...
