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CBS, Former CEO to Pay $9.75M to Settle New York Probe of Handling of Misconduct
Nov 3 2022 // CBS Corp. and former Chief Executive Leslie Moonves agreed on Wednesday to pay investors an additional $9.75 million to settle the New York attorney general’sallegations that the company sought to cover up sexual...
New York City Pay Disclosure, In Effect Today, Escalates Raise Frenzy
Nov 1 2022 // Most New York City businesses on Tuesday will be required by law to add salary ranges to job ads, escalating a frenzy among employees and job seekers asking for pay increases in line with new postings. Nearly a third of...
New York High Court: Insured’s ‘Mutual Mistake’ Argument Came Too Late
Nov 1 2022 // New York’s highest court reversed a $4.5 million judgment against an insurer that denied a fire damage claim by the owner of a vacant commercial building because the owner had not installed an automatic sprinkler...
State Inspector Cites Regulatory Lapses in Fatal New York Limo Crash
Nov 1 2022 // New York regulators failed to do all they could to sideline a poorly maintained stretch limousine that careened down a hill and crashed in 2018, killing 20 people, according to a state watchdog. State Inspector General...
New York’s Workers’ Compensation Fund Now Covers Out-Of-State Workers
Oct 31 2022 // The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, announced that it will extend coverage to out-of-state employees for the first time. Under the initiative, any New...
New York Innovation Lab Is Now Accepting Applications
Oct 28 2022 // The FinTech Innovation Lab New York, a 12-week program to helps early- and growth-stage financial technology companies through collaboration with financial services and venture capital firms, is now accepting...
Cities Must Bargain Over Termination of Injured Workers: New York High Court
Oct 27 2022 // New York labor law requires a municipality to negotiate when terminating employees who are not at work for over a year because of an on-the-job injury, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled. The state’s high court...
New York’s High Court Upholds Insurance Regulation Opposed by Agents
Oct 26 2022 // New York insurance agents have lost their bid to overturn a state consumer regulation governing the sale of life insurance and annuity products that they believe is vague and exceeds the state insurance regulator’s...
A Decade After Sandy, New York City Resiliency Projects, Spending Lag: Comptroller
Oct 26 2022 // Ten years after Superstorm Sandy pounded New York City’s coastal areas, taking 43 lives and causing $19 billion in damages, many resiliency projects remain years from completion and billions of dollars in recovery...
Renaissance Alliance Adds 3 New York Agencies to Its Network
Oct 25 2022 // Independent insurance agency network Renaissance Alliance reports that it has expanded its presence in New York by adding three agencies to its membership. The newest members are Fraleigh and Rakow, with office locations...
Trump Answers Questions in New York Defamation Suit
Oct 21 2022 // Former President Donald Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who says he raped her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room. The deposition...
Study Traces COVID-19 Impact on New York Workers’ Compensation Claims
Oct 21 2022 // During the height of the pandemic, New York workers’ compensation indemnity payments increased while medical payments decreased. That’s according to a new report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
Amazon Workers in New York City Win Partial Revival of COVID-19 Safety Lawsuit
Oct 20 2022 // Amazon.com Inc. must face a claim that it failed to protect New York City warehouse workers and their families from COVID-19, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday while dismissing the bulk of the workers’ 2020...
New York’s $4.5M Cybersecurity Settlement with EyeMed Bars Insurance Recovery
Oct 19 2022 // Health insurance company EyeMed Vision Care LLC will pay a $4.5 million penalty to New York State for violations of the state’s cybersecurity regulation that officials said exposed hundreds of thousands of...
Federal Court Saves New York’s Gun Law Pending Review of Lower Court Order
Oct 14 2022 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed New York to continue enforcing its new gun law as it considers a lower court ruling that would block key provisions. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came...
New York AG Seeks to Block Trump From Moving Assets, Using Financial Documents
Oct 13 2022 // New York Attorney General Letitia James has returned to court to stop Donald Trump and the Trump Organization from potentially evading the consequences of her recent lawsuit that charges them with fraudulent and illegal...
Two New York Hospitals to Pay $165M to Victims of Abuse by Gynecologist
Oct 10 2022 // Two New York hospitals have agreed to pay more than $165 million to 147 former patients who have accused a former gynecologist of sexual abuse and misconduct. Columbia University Irving Medical Center and...
Limit on Limousines’ Miles Is Among New York Safety Panel’s 16 Recommendations
Oct 5 2022 // A New York state task force created after a 2018 limo crash that killed 20 people issued a safety report with recommendations including equipping the vehicles with side impact protection devices and taking them off the...
Hilb Group Acquires New York’s Abatelli Agency
Oct 4 2022 // The Hilb Group reports that it acquired New York-based Abatelli Insurance Agency on Sept. 1, further expanding its presence in the tri-state area. Based in Whitestone, New York, Abatelli Insurance Agency is a...
New York Surgeon Pleads Guilty to Participating In $31M Trip-and-Fall Fraud
Oct 3 2022 // A New York doctor last week pled guilty to performing unnecessary surgeries as part of a scheme by doctors and lawyers to obtain insurance reimbursements and other compensation from fraudulent trip-and-fall accidents,...
