Latest New York Headlines
All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Taking care of trash
Jul 2 2007 // Take care of what you throw in the trash. Some RadioShack employees in Texas have allegedly committed an egregious error, showing a careless disregard for protecting sensitive customer data. According to Texas Attorney...
After fast start with workers’ comp, Albany sputters
Jul 2 2007 // The Assembly has had its own reasons for moving slowly, especially on insurance bills — its insurance committee lacked leadership. Despite the state having a new governor, The New York Legislature continues with its...
Editor’s Note: Taking care of trash
Jul 2 2007 // It could be argued that the RadioShack employees (if the charges prove to be true) were acting out of ignorance or they just didn’t care. It sounds like that argument would not apply to the insurance company, which...
N.Y. Court Rules Drunk Driving Does Not Include Using Inhalants with Alcohol
Jun 29 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled Wednesday. The...
Berkshire’s Buffet, at Clinton Fundraiser, Tutors Dems on Business
Jun 29 2007 // Guests at a high-dollar New York fundraiser for presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton were treated to cocktails, dinner and an hourlong business tutorial from billionaire Warren Buffett. Buffett, the founder...
New Jersey Drivers Think They’re Better Than New York Drivers
Jun 29 2007 // New Jersey drivers buckle themselves in, but do so while speeding and scorning New Yorkers, according to a new university poll. The poll also found Garden State men are more likely than women to drive after drinking or...
Ex-EPA Chief Whitman Defends Ground Zero Health Statements
Jun 27 2007 // Come clean, one lawmaker demanded of ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman. Tell us the truth about the health dangers in the air around ground zero, said another. Yet for three hours at a congressional hearing Monday — and for...
32 N.Y. Businessowners Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 25 2007 // The owners of 32 businesses have been accused of lying about their employees to avoid paying into the workers’ compensation fund, state regulators said. The Westchester businesses, mostly small restaurants and delis,...
Mass. Sues N.Y. Web Site Owner for Selling Free Registry Forms
Jun 25 2007 // Massachusetts officials are suing a New York man who allegedly operated a Web site that mimicked the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicle site and misled consumers into paying a fee to download forms they could obtain...
AIG Among Winners in Blackstone Group’s Giant IPO
Jun 25 2007 // Blackstone Group LP’s shares jumped more than 13 percent last Friday on the New York Stock Exchange, after the buyout powerhouse raised $4.1 billion in its initial public offering. The highly-anticipated IPO, which...
10 N.Y. business protest ‘scaffold law’ as session nears end
Jun 18 2007 // Coalition urges Gov. Spitzer, lawmakers to end strict liability now 10 Maine insurer caught up in nationwide scam Scammers have latched onto an insurer’s name and logo – without permission 10 Storms of...
MarshMac blasts N.Y. Post over ad photography criticism
Jun 18 2007 // Marsh & McLennan Companies has vigorously defended its use of photographs in a recent ad campaign against the suggestion in a New York newspaper article that they contain images of the Twin Towers of the World Trade...
N.Y. vows to revamp regulation to remain financial capital
Jun 18 2007 // New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has created a commission to identify ways for New York to enhance its status as a world financial capital by modernizing its regulatory scheme and perhaps merging state regulation of insurance,...
People
Jun 18 2007 // Gregg Effner has joined The Main Street America Group as assistant vice president of distribution management. Effner will be based at the headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and report to Doug Eden, senior vice president...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Businesses protest N.Y.’s ‘scaffold law’ as session nears end With the New York Legislature set to adjourn on June 21, business associations and groups representing the state’s agriculture and...
People
Jun 18 2007 // Countrywide Insurance Group named Steve Cardinal president and chief operating officer of Countrywide Insurance Services. As a member of Countrywide Insurance Group’s executive team, Cardinal will oversee all aspects...
FBI Breaks Up Large East Coast Auto Theft Ring
Jun 14 2007 // The FBI said it has broken up an East Coast auto theft ring that retagged and sold hundreds of stolen vehicles. The ring had been operating since 1999, stealing vehicles and creating phony certificates of title to match...
N.Y. City Urged to be Ready for Major Hurricane
Jun 13 2007 // Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has warned that America’s largest city needs to be prepared for a hurricane powerful enough to cause serious flooding in lower Manhattan and elsewhere. “It’s...
Ratings Roundup: NY Marine (NYMAGIC); Sooner
Jun 13 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A” (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of New York Marine Group and its members, New York Marine And General...
Marsh & McLennan Blasts N.Y. Post Criticism of Ad Photos
Jun 12 2007 // Marsh & McLennan Companies has vigorously defended its use of photographs in a recent ad campaign against the suggestion by a New York newspaper that they contain images of the Twin Towers of the World Trade...
