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New York City Facing $497 Million in Claims from Crane Mishap
Jun 13 2008 // New York City has received more than $497 million of claims for personal injury, property damage and wrongful death due to a construction crane collapse on Manhattan’s East Side on March 15, the city comptroller said...
Wall Collapse Leads to Manslaughter Charge for New York Contractor
Jun 12 2008 // A New York construction contractor has been indicted on a manslaughter charge in connection with a Brooklyn wall collapse that killed a worker in March. The Brooklyn district attorney says the contractor, William Lattarulo...
Lloyd’s Analyzes Collapsing Cranes
Jun 11 2008 // Lloyd’s asks: “How safe are cranes? And will the recent spate of accidents involving them increase rates for policyholders?” A major indication of a booming construction industry is the number of cranes...
N.Y. AG Cuomo Wants Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg to Answer Questions
Jun 10 2008 // New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has tried to block a request by the former head of American International Group Incto delay a deposition on three-year-old allegations of financial misconduct. Former AIG CEO Maurice...
NYC Crane Collapse Probe Focuses on Repair of Worn-Out Part
Jun 5 2008 // New York investigators are examining how a worn-out part was taken off a construction crane last year, rebuilt and installed on another crane, which collapsed last week in an accident that killed two workers. A failed weld...
Administrator CRM Goes Bust with New York Workers’ Comp Trusts
Jun 4 2008 // CRM Holdings, which had been a major third party administrator for self-insured workers’ compensation trusts in New York, will surrender its trust license by the end of the summer as part of a settlement reached with...
After NYC Collapse, Experts Say Cranes Aren’t Tested Enough
Jun 2 2008 // The towering cranes that build America’s skyscrapers are often not properly inspected for wear, fatigue and other potentially dangerous structural problems, several construction safety experts said following a deadly...
Safety Summit Follows Deadly NYC Crane Collapse
Jun 2 2008 // New York City Buildings Department officials gathered for an emergency safety summit Saturday after the city’s second deadly crane collapse in recent weeks, while lawmakers warned of dangers in New York’s...
New York Crane Collapse Kills At Least 1
May 30 2008 // A construction crane in New York City fell and smashed into a neighboring apartment building during the morning rush hour, killing at least one person – the crane’s operator – and ripping apart much of...
New York Jury Awards $17.5M to Former Rochester Patient
May 29 2008 // A jury says a Rochester, New York hospital should pay about $17.5 million to a 37-year-old woman who claimed that surgical errors by doctors damaged her organs during a Caesarean delivery. The state Supreme Court jury...
New York Senate Bill Bans Texting While Driving
May 28 2008 // The New York Senate has passed legislation that would prohibit drivers from reading, writing or sending text messages while driving in the Empire State. The law modifies earlier legislation that bans cell phone use while...
‘Self-Certified’ NYC Building Plans Rife With Violations
May 27 2008 // More than eight in 10 building plans vetted by architects and engineers — instead of city inspectors — violate zoning rules, New York City reviews of the plans found. The Buildings Department recently checked...
Bank of N.Y. Works with Connecticut on Security Breach
May 23 2008 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal asked the Bank of New York Mellon Wednesday to explain how it lost computer tapes containing the information of more than 4 million customers. The bank told the state that a...
Mass. Approves Mapfre Acquisition of Commerce Insurance
May 22 2008 // Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance Nonnie S. Burnes has approved the acquisition of Commerce Insurance Co., principal subsidiary of The Commerce Group of Webster, Mass., by the Spanish insurance company Mapfre,...
XL Holds ‘Global Day of Giving’
May 21 2008 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. is holding its third annual employee volunteer day — known as the “Global Day of Giving” — today Wednesday, May 21. The day is dedicated to supporting the communities...
New York City to Hire More Buildings Inspectors
May 20 2008 // Under fire for a spate of construction accidents, the city will spend $5.3 million to hire 63 more safety inspectors, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Sunday. “The Buildings Department has a critical responsibility...
New York Woman Wins $3.8M for Pothole Fall
May 19 2008 // An 83-year-old woman who hurt herself stepping into a pothole has won $3.8 million in damages from New York City. A Bronx jury awarded Janie Utsey (YOO’-tzee) the money for the injury she suffered five years ago when...
N.Y. Suspends Workers Comp Security Fund Payments
May 19 2008 // Workers’ compensation insurers in New York can cease making payments to the state’s security fund, now that the fund has amassed $74 million in assets, the Insurance Department said. By statute, the department...
Business Moves
May 19 2008 // AmWINS, Beacon Risk Strategies Charlotte, N.C.-based AmWINS Group Inc. acquired Beacon Risk Strategies, a Seattle-based managing general underwriter of excess-loss benefits insurance. Terms of the transaction were not...
New York Agents Seek to Curb State-backed Workers’ Comp Insurer
May 19 2008 // A trade group for New York insurance agents wants to rewrite the laws governing the New York State Insurance Fund — a nonprofit state agency that is the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer — to...
