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AIA Urges NY Governor To Veto Bill Removing Drunk Driving Benefit Exclusions
Jun 26 2001 // The American Insurance Association has urged NY Governor George Pataki to veto a bill passed by the Assembly and the Senate, which would remove the current exclusion of benefits for drunk drivers under the State’s...
NY Assembly Votes To Ban Driver Cell Phone Use
Jun 26 2001 // By a vote of 125 to 19 the New York State Assembly followed the lead of the Senate, and passed a bill banning the use of cell phones by automobile drivers. Governor Pataki is expected to sign the bill next week. It would...
Emergency Adjusters Permits On-line in New York
Jun 15 2001 // The New York Department of Insurance has unveiled a new electronic initiative to give the state’s insurers the ability to finish applications for temporary adjusters permits on-line, when coping with an emergency or...
NY Bill Would Overturn Law Protecting Car Renters
Jun 13 2001 // A 1988 New York law making auto rental car companies responsible for the principal costs of damaged cars would be overturned by Assembly Bill 7742, which is being considered by an Assembly committee. “In view of the...
New York Arrests Result from No-Fault Fraud
Jun 12 2001 // Three New York individuals were recently arrested for their alleged involvement in a no-fault insurance fraud scheme. Igor Perlov, a security guard; Inna Perlova, his wife; and Lidiya Shvarts, their neighbor; both who...
N.Y. DMV, Insurance Department Team Up
Jun 1 2001 // New York’s Insurance Department and Department of Motor Vehicles are teaming up to locate insurance companies which provide incomplete information to the Insurance Information and Enforcement System. According to a...
New York Woman Arrested for Insurance Fraud
May 30 2001 // Dawn Marie Connelly of Pittsford was recently arrested, charged with insurance fraud in the third degree and grand larceny in the third degree. Connelly’s arrest was the result of a joint investigation by the...
Frontier Insurance Group and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance Sign MGA and Brokerage Agreements May
May 22 2001 // Medical Professional Liability Agency, Ltd a subsidiary of Frontier Insurance Group Inc, and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance (PRI), jointly announce that PRI had entered into agreements appointing Med Pro an MGA and...
New York Investigation Leads to Fraud Arrests
May 21 2001 // Sweeps in New York City and upstate New York led to the arrests of 39 individuals for a variety of crimes related to insurance fraud. The auto fraud round-up in the metropolitan area has led to 18 arrests, while 21...
IIAA of New York Chooses Personnel,
May 18 2001 // The Independent Insurance Agents Association of New York Inc. chose officers and installed six new district directors for the new session at the association’s 119th Annual Business Meeting at West Point. The meeting...
N.Y. No-Fault Insurance Anti-Fraud Summit Conference Scheduled
May 16 2001 // The New York No-Fault Insurance Anti-Fraud Coalition announced that it will hold a summit conference on May 22, 2001, in Albany, N.Y. According to the organizers, program speakers will address two serious problems: staged...
N.Y. Embezzler May Miss Jail
Apr 26 2001 // Fallen insurance agent Albert W. Lawrence may miss out on jail time due to the fact that he is a very sick man. According to reports in New York’s Times Union, a federal prosecutor claims Lawrence, 72, who had been...
NY LIFE SETTLES ARMENIAN CLAIMS
Apr 23 2001 // New York Life Insurance Company reached an agreement with plaintiff’s attorneys under which the company will pay all valid claims relating to policies purchased in the Ottoman Empire before 1915. Pending final court...
IRC Reports Increase in Losses in NY No-Fault Auto Claims
Apr 21 2001 // According to a new study by the Insurance Research Council (IRC), a division of the American Institute for CPCU and the Insurance Institute of America, losses in Personal Injury Protection (PIP) claims rose by 79 percent...
New York Life Settles Armenian Claims
Apr 13 2001 // New York Life Insurance Company has agreed in principle with plaintiff’s attorneys wherein the company has agreed to pay all valid claims in relation to Armenian policies written by the company in the Ottoman Empire...
AIA Negotiates New York Dole Assessment Resolution
Apr 12 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) and New York State officials reached a fair, reasonable settlement which will return a substantial portion of a state assessment on workers’ compensation insurers that was...
Gregory Serio Nominated to be Next New York Insurance Superintendent
Apr 11 2001 // New York Governor George E. Pataki has nominated Gregory V. Serio to serve as Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, succeeding Neil D. Levin who left the top post at the agency to become Executive...
Levin Recommended as Exec. Director of Port Authority
Apr 2 2001 // New York Gov. George Pataki and Acting New Jersey Gov. Donald DiFrancesco have recommended New York State Insurance Superintendent Neil Levin to succeed Robert Boyle as executive director of the Port Authority of New York...
N.Y. Senate, Assembly Rejects Wrap-Up Proposal
Mar 28 2001 // The New York State Senate and Assembly introduced budget bills last week that omitted an Administration proposal that the Independent Insurance Agents of America, New York say would have proved costly for contractors and...
New York Man Arrested for Falsely Acting as an Insurance Broker
Mar 19 2001 // New York Superintendent Neil D. Levin announced that Andrew Hicks, 36, has been arrested on charges that he falsely acted in the capacity of an insurance broker. Hicks allegedly possessed and issued fictitious New York...
