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Broadway Theaters, Insurer Agree to End COVID-19 Business Loss Claims
May 16 2023 // An owner of Broadway theaters and Pacific Indemnity Insurance Co. have voluntarily agreed to end their remaining litigation over COVID-19 coverage claims. Under the stipulation filed May 11, each party will bear its own...
New York Apartment Fire That Killed 3 Blamed on Homemade Vape Pens
May 15 2023 // A fire that killed a mother and two daughters in New York City was apparently sparked by homemade vape dispensers that the father of the family was assembling to sell, officials said. The fire broke out shortly after 2...
New York AG Sues Manufacturer Over Magazine Lock Used in Buffalo Massacre
May 15 2023 // New York’s attorney general sued a gun accessory manufacturer Thursday for selling a lock that can be easily removed to attach high-capacity magazines, which are illegal in the state. The white gunman who massacred...
3 Companies Fined for Millions of Fake Comments to FCC Opposing Net Neutrality
May 11 2023 // New York officials reported they have secured $615,000 from three companies that supplied millions of fake public comments to influence a 2017 proceeding by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal net...
Hyundai and Kia Thefts Keep Rising Despite Security Fix
May 10 2023 // Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites. So far, it...
Trump Liable for Sex Abuse, Must Pay $5 Million to Carroll
May 10 2023 // A federal jury in New York found Donald Trump liable for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll and then defaming her by calling her a liar, the first verdict against him in a string of legal cases that threaten to...
Trial Underway for Fatal New York Limousine Crash That Killed 20
May 10 2023 // A limousine company operator on trial for a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York was portrayed by a prosecutor Monday as directly responsible for the deaths, while a defense lawyer argued he was simply in the...
Accountant Charged With $10 Million in Construction Workers’ Compensation Fraud
May 9 2023 // Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. announced two indictments of a certified public accountant for defrauding the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) of more than $10 million in workers’ compensation...
New York Jury Has Wide Latitude to Decide Civil Claims Against Trump
May 8 2023 // The New York jury hearing an advice columnist’s claims that she was raped by Donald Trump could begin deliberations as soon as Tuesday, and it will have wide latitude in deciding the truthfulness of the allegations...
New York Names InnSure to Handle Clean Tech Insurance Grants
May 8 2023 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the nonprofit InnSure will administer the state’s $6.5 million insurance innovation fund that includes grants to encourage the development of new insurance policies and...
State Judge Nixes Trump Damages Suit Against New York Times
May 5 2023 // Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times over a 2018 investigative series into his family’s wealth and tax practices was dismissed by a state judge Wednesday. The lawsuit accused the...
People Moves: Hunter Joins Lockton Re in Stamford; Risk Strategies Names Rosenzweig in New York
May 3 2023 // Hunter Joins Lockton Re in New Stamford Location Jaimie Hunter has joined Lockton Re as a senior broker supporting client development with a focus on casualty business in North America. Hunter will be based in Lockton...
Trial Begins for Limousine Firm Operator Over New York Crash That Killed 20 in 2018
May 3 2023 // Nearly five years after a stretch limousine packed with birthday revelers careened down a hill and off a road in rural upstate New York, killing 20 people, the operator of the company that rented out the vehicle is going...
New York City Transit Halts Service Alerts on Twitter After Suspension
May 2 2023 // Shortly after midnight last Thursday, several New York City subway trains slowed to a crawl as emergency crews tended to a person discovered on the tracks in Manhattan. The delays were flagged for the Metropolitan...
After Parking Garage Deadly Collapse, New York City Partly Shutters Four Others
May 1 2023 // After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects...
New York’s Yellow Cab Drivers Can’t Sue City Over Uber, Lyft Impact on License Values
Apr 28 2023 // New York’s top state court on Thursday threw out claims by yellow cab operators that New York City diminished the value of their taxi licenses by failing to rein in app-based competitors like Uber Technologies Inc...
New York Lawyers, Doctor Sentenced in $31 Million Trip-and-Fall Insurance Fraud
Apr 27 2023 // A New York surgeon and two lawyers are the latest professionals to be sentenced for their roles in a massive massive trip-and-fall fraud scheme between 2013 and 2018 that exploited some of the most vulnerable citizens of...
New York Woman Pleads Guilty to $27K in False Claims for Aquatic Treatments
Apr 25 2023 // Eunice Ting, of Watervliet, New York, pled guilty last Thursday to making a false statement to obtain benefits from the Department of Labor’s workers’ compensation program. According to prosecutors, Ting...
Tornado, Small Earthquake Hit Upstate New York
Apr 25 2023 // A minor magnitude 3.6 earthquake shook parts of upstate New York on Sunday afternoon. There were no immediate reports of significant damage. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the earthquake struck at 2:10 p.m. with...
Hub Acquires Brady Risk Management of New York
Apr 20 2023 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited reported that it has acquired the assets of Brady Risk Management, Inc. of Huntington, New York. Brady Risk is a risk management, risk transfer and insurance firm that...
