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Mosaic Insurance Opens First U.S.-Based Office Location in New York City

Oct 15 2021 // Mosaic Insurance has opened an office in New York City. This is its first U.S.-based physical address for a growing number of employees. The Midtown South office, which will accommodate members of Mosaic’s cyber and...

Federal Judges Uphold Status Quo in Rulings on 3 New York COVID Vaccine Mandates

Oct 13 2021 // Federal judges issued three different decisions on New York state and city requirements for Covid-19 vaccinations, upholding the status quo as the contentious issue winds it way through the court system. New York...

Hub International Limited Acquires Assets of New York’s Safe Harbour Group

Oct 12 2021 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, acquired the assets of Safe Harbour Group Ltd. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in New City, New York, Safe Harbour...

InsurTech NY Announces Launch of Insurance Collaboration Index

Oct 5 2021 // InsurTech NY, a resource for the InsurTech community in the New York metro area, announced the launch of its Insurance Collaboration Index. Based on input from InsurTech executives, the index scores insurance and...

New York Plastics Plant Settles Claim Over Polluted Drinking Water

Oct 4 2021 // A plastics company in upstate New York agreed to pay $23.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it knowingly polluted well water with a toxic chemical. The Times Union reports the proposed settlement, agreed...

Allstate Completes Sale of Life Insurance Company of New York

Oct 4 2021 // The Allstate Corp. moved closer to its complete exit from the life insurance and annuity business with the closing of the sale of its Allstate Life Insurance Company of New York to Wilton Re for approximately $400...

Longtime New York City Contractor Indicted for $1M Insurance Fraud

Sep 30 2021 // Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Margaret Garnett announced the indictment of Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, Nursery, & Florist (DBLNF)...

New York City to Hire Forecaster, Beef Up Warnings After Ida Flooding

Sep 29 2021 // New York City is planning to hire a private weather forecaster, install more drainage features and issue earlier and more aggressive warnings to residents under a new plan to respond to heavy rainfall like the deadly...

Sotheby’s Must Face New York Claims It Helped Rich Collector Dodge Taxes

Sep 29 2021 // Sotheby’s must face a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing the auction house of fraudulently helping a wealthy art collector dodge millions of dollars of sales taxes, a state judge has ruled. The...

New York Announces New Consumer Protections in Public Adjusters Regulation

Sep 27 2021 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Acting Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris announced new consumer protections in New York’s public adjusters regulation, which will become effective October 8. The...

Former New York Insurance Broker Sentenced to Prison for $1M Fraud Scheme

Sep 24 2021 // A former insurance broker is going to prison for defrauding insurance companies and individual investors out of more than $1 million. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Brian Bartz of Rochester, New York,...

New York’s Bolton Street Programs Rebrands, Implements New Technologies

Sep 24 2021 // Bolton Street Programs, a new Woodbury, New York-based program administrator that creates and administers affinity programs, is working to integrate insurtech, resinsurance, E&S options and loss control throughout its...

Broker/Fintech Provider Acrisure Buys New York-Based Tempo Title

Sep 22 2021 // Acrisure, the global insurance broker and fintech services provider, announced it has entered the real estate services business through its acquisition of Tempo Title, one of the largest private title insurance and...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires New York’s Lloyd Bedford Cox

Sep 15 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Bedford Hills, New York-based Lloyd Bedford Cox. Inc. (LBC). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1921, LBC is a fourth-generation retail insurance agency providing...

Judge Temporarily Blocks New York Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

Sep 15 2021 // A U.S. judge in New York on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a requirement that healthcare workers receive COVID-19 vaccines against the wishes of employees with religious objections. U.S. District...

New York County Worker Charged in Digital Currency Mining Scheme

Sep 14 2021 // An employee cost a New York county at least $6,000 in electricity bills by allegedly secretly installing dozens of machines at his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme, authorities said Wednesday, announcing charges...

Drugmaker Endo Settles Opioid Claims by New York, Counties for $50M

Sep 13 2021 // Drugmaker Endo International Plc on Thursday said it has agreed to pay $50 million to resolve lawsuits by New York state and two of its largest counties related to the sale and marketing of opioids. Endo said the...

In New York City After Ida, Biden Calls Climate ‘Everybody’s Crisis’

Sep 9 2021 // President Joe Biden declared climate change has become “everybody’s crisis” as he toured neighborhoods flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, warning it’s time for America to get serious about...

New York Governor Hochul Signs Request for Expedited Major Disaster Declaration

Sep 8 2021 // Following her visits to communities impacted by flooding from Hurricane Ida, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a request to President Biden for an expedited major disaster declaration. With presidential approval, the...

Former Advisor to President Obama to Become New York’s Top Financial Regulator

Sep 7 2021 // New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced that Adrienne Harris has been nominated to lead the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) as its next superintendent. Formerly a top economic advisor to...