Latest New York Headlines
All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
The Pioneering Women of TEXAS: How a generation of insurance women was born
Oct 9 2000 // On June 2, 1944 at 9:30 a.m. in the roof garden of the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, the first meeting of the Insurance Women of Texas was opened by call to order by Mrs. Ruth A. Fredde, president of the Insurance Women of...
NY DOI Approves Streamlined Filing Procedures
Sep 22 2000 // The first product reviewed under the New York Department of Insurance’s new procedures for expediting the review process for product filings has been approved. The procedures were a part of an overall initiative to...
Buffalo, N.Y. Independent Agency Launches e-Service Unit
Aug 29 2000 // The Lawley Service Insurance Group of Companies, the largest independent insurance agency in Buffalo, N.Y., has launched a new Internet division staffed with eight additional employees. Consumers can access their services...
New Procedures to Streamline Product Approval Process in New York
Aug 23 2000 // New York Insurance Department is using new procedures to expedite the review process for product filings made with the department as a part of an overall initiative to reform the insurance regulatory process in New...
Seven Arrested In Bronx Insurance Fraud Sweep
Aug 22 2000 // Seven people, including a 67-year-old medical doctor, have been arrested and charged in connection with various unrelated schemes to commit insurance fraud amounting to nearly $271,000. The arrests are the culmination of a...
FRONTIER SUED IN NY
Aug 21 2000 // A class action lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of all individuals who purchased Frontier Insurance Group Inc. securities during the Class Period between Aug. 5,...
Esurance Extends Auto Insurance to New York, Georgia
Aug 14 2000 // Esurance Inc., a quote-to-claims Internet-based provider of personal insurance, announced the expansion of its auto insurance business to 24 states with the addition of New York, Georgia and Oklahoma. Esurance offers auto...
NY High Court Grants Summary Judgement in
Aug 9 2000 // The Supreme Court of New York recently granted summary judgement in favor of New York Apple Tours Inc. by ruling that the company’s former insurer, TRM International Inc., had wrongfully and unlawfully cancelled NY...
Class Action Filed in New York Against Frontier
Aug 7 2000 // A class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of all individuals who purchased Frontier Insurance Group Inc. securities during the Class Period, between August...
New York Superintendent Names Donnellan Deputy General Counsel
Jul 25 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin has appointed Susan Skaling Donnellan as deputy general counsel of the insurance department. Donnellan assumes her duties at the insurance department...
Lying, Cheating and Stealing
Jul 24 2000 // There are a number of sins to which those providing services for money are susceptible: product ignorance, market ignorance, administrative incompetence, disloyalty and betrayal, slothfulness, untruthfulness, and stealing....
Gov. Pataki Announces Workers’ Comp. Rate Reduction
Jul 18 2000 // New York Gov. George E. Pataki has said workers’ compensation rates will be reduced this year by an average of 2.5 percent. The reduction, combined with rate decreases achieved in the past five years, represents an...
Samers Appointed N.Y. Deputy General Counsel
Jul 11 2000 // Audrey Samers has been appointed to the position of first deputy general counsel at the New York Department of Insurance effective immediately. Samers previously served as deputy general counsel and was appointed special...
N.Y. Legislature Leaves Reg. Reform Unfinished, Defeats Trial Lawyer Bills
Jun 26 2000 // The New York Legislature ended its 2000 session leaving important insurance regulatory reform unfinished, but did defeat a number of bills promoted by trial lawyers that would have increased costs for consumers and...
School Rules For the New Millennium
Jun 26 2000 // Today, there are roughly 51.5 million public and private school students and 3 million teachers in the United States, according to the NationalSchool Boards Association. And although these schools are scattered across the...
New York DOI Arrests 18 for Insurance Fraud
Jun 16 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced yesterday that 18 individuals were arrested following an undercover sting investigation involving a garage that functioned as a “chop shop”. The...
New York DOI to Appeal Regulation 68 Ruling
Jun 16 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced yesterday that the Department has filed a notice of intent to appeal a June 9 decision striking down Regulation 68 on a procedural technical basis. The filing of...
Accusations Fly From Former New York Life Exec
Jun 15 2000 // A racketeering lawsuit has been filed by a former New York Life Insurance Co. president on behalf of thousands of employees, alleging their pension and 401(k) plans were used as seed money for the company’s mutual...
N.Y. Judge Overturns Car Insurance Rules
Jun 13 2000 // Stricter no-fault auto insurance regulations in New York state were overturned yesterday by a judge who ruled that state insurance officials had not considered the impact on injured people and the doctors who treat...
N.Y. Insurance Fraud Conviction
Jun 7 2000 // Anthony Callicchio, owner of General Auto Glass Repair in New York, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to make full restitution after pleading guilty for defrauding Cerebral Palsy Transport’s...
