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New York AG’s Financial Fraud Suit Against Trump Details Insurance Scenarios
Sep 22 2022 // Donald Trump and the Trump Organization used false and misleading statements of financial condition to obtain favorable real estate loans and insurance coverage over the last decade, according to a 222- page civil...
Trump Accuser Plans New Lawsuit Under New York’s Abuse Survivors Law
Sep 22 2022 // A writer who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room intends to file another lawsuit against him under a new New York law letting sexual assault victims sue over attacks that...
New York City Lifts COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Private Businesses
Sep 21 2022 // New York City Mayor Eric Adams is encouraging private businesses to put in place their own vaccine policies after making the private sector vaccine mandate optional. The city has also now made vaccines optional for...
New York Seeks Program Manager for $6.5M Fund for ‘Clean Tech’ Insurance Products
Sep 19 2022 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a $6.5 million program to support insurance innovation for climate-technologies, a new program focused on the research and development of new insurance policies and products that...
New York City, Amazon Partner On ‘Ghost Vehicles’ Crackdown
Sep 19 2022 // As part of a collaboration with New York City, giant retailer Amazon said it will proactively restrict the sale of smokescreen license plate covers and tinted license plate covers to customers with a New York state...
Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks LGBTQ Order at New York’s Yeshiva University
Sep 12 2022 // The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order that would have forced Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBTQ group as an official campus club. The court acted Friday in a brief order signed by Justice Sonia...
New York Revises Compensation Fund, Workers’ Compensation Claims for 9/11 Victims
Sep 12 2022 // Ahead of the 21st anniversary of 9/11, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed several bills into that that seek to support to 9/11 victims and survivors and their families. This new laws target barriers and delays in the...
New York Trial Begins in Bond Insurer Case Over Mortgage-Backed Securities
Sep 8 2022 // Bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc. cannot prove its $2.7 billion case against Bank of America over troubled mortgage-backed securities on evidence that BofA was a “bad actor” before the 2008 financial...
New York Launches $6.5M Fund for ‘Clean Tech’ Insurance Products; Seeks Program Manager
Sep 2 2022 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a $6.5 million program to support Insurance Innovation for climate-technologies, a new program focused on the research and development of new insurance policies and products that...
New York Sets ‘Gun Free Zones’ to Restrict Guns; Regulates Concealed Carry Permits
Sep 2 2022 // Amid the bright lights and electronic billboards across New York’s Times Square, city authorities are posting new signs proclaiming the bustling crossroads a “Gun Free Zone.” The sprawling Manhattan...
Supreme Court Justice Denies Detective’s Bid to Block New York City’s Vaccine Mandate
Sep 1 2022 // U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday denied an appeal from a New York Police Department detective who asked for an emergency injunction to keep the city from firing him over its mandate that municipal...
Program Manager McNeil, New York Cannabis Industry Form Workers’ Comp Group
Aug 31 2022 // Insurance program manager McNeil & Co. and the Cannabis Association of New York (CANY) are forming a workers’ compensation safety group for the New York cannabis industry. The two said the New York State...
New York City, Amazon Collaborate on Crackdown on ‘Ghost Vehicles’
Aug 30 2022 // As part of a collaboration with New York City, giant retailer Amazon said it will proactively restrict the sale of smokescreen license plate covers and tinted license plate covers to customers with a New York state...
New York Detective Wants Supreme Court to Block Vaccine Mandate
Aug 29 2022 // A New York City police detective has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the city from firing him and other workers for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Lawyers for Detective Anthony Marciano asked the court...
US Pandemic-Era Inflation Mostly Driven by Demand Surge, NY Fed Study Finds
Aug 24 2022 // The majority of US pandemic-era inflation came from a surge in demand, but supply-chain constraints stoked it further, Federal Reserve Bank of New York research shows. About 60% of the inflation seen from 2019 to 2021 was...
After Second Death by Fall in 3 Years, New York Roofer Faces Potential $1.3M Penalty
Aug 24 2022 // A Nanuet, New York roofing and siding contractor with a history of safety violations and penalties now faces an additional $1,343,363 in penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
State Farm Sues Amazon to Recover New York Homeowner Claim
Aug 23 2022 // State Farm Fire & Casualty is trying to get Amazon to reimburse it for a payment it made to cover damages to the home of one of its New York insureds. State Farm and its insured claim that the damage was caused by a...
Cause of New York Injury Lawyer’s Fatal Plane Crash Still Under Investigation
Aug 22 2022 // Federal investigators haven’t been able to determine why a prominent personal injury attorney lost control of his plane and crashed in 2020, killing him and a passenger. The crash near Corfu, about 15 miles (24...
Fire Consumes Once-Famous Grossinger’s Hotel in New York’s Catskills
Aug 19 2022 // LIBERTY, N.Y. — A fire consumed a building at the site of the long-closed Grossinger’s resort, once among the most storied and glamorous hotels in New York’s Catskills. In its heyday after World War II,...
New York City Wastewater Testing Indicates Polio Virus Is Spreading
Aug 17 2022 // The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health...
