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New York Bill Requiring Backseat Buckle Up Passes Legislature
Mar 5 2020 // New York senators moved to strengthen the state’s seat belt laws Tuesday and approved a bill that requires backseat adult passengers to buckle up. The legislation, passed by the state Senate and Assembly, now moves...
InsurTech NY Announces Finalists for 2020 InsurTech Competition
Mar 5 2020 // InsurTech NY, an insurtech community in the New York metro area, has announced the finalists of its 2020 InsurTech Competition. More than 200 startups applied to compete in a two-track competition, pitting early and...
Risk Modeling Firm Verisk Cancels Live Event Over Virus, Goes Virtual for Cyber Seminar
Mar 4 2020 // Insurance data analytics and risk modeling firm Verisk has converted its Cyber and Casualty Seminar scheduled for March 10 in New York City from an in-person to a free virtual event “out of an abundance of caution...
Officials Try to Calm Nerves as New York Reports First COVID-19 Case
Mar 4 2020 // New York leaders sought to calm jittery nerves Monday after the city recorded its first confirmed case of the new coronavirus, saying the disease – while dangerous – is a manageable threat. The state is...
EXL Appoints Mahon as Executive VP, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer in New York
Mar 4 2020 // EXL, an operations management and analytics company, has appointed Anita Mahon to the role of executive vice president and chief growth and strategy officer. Based in New York, she will also serve as a member of...
Chubb Names Buonpane as Construction Industry Practice Leader in New York
Mar 3 2020 // Chubb has named Stephen Buonpane as Construction Industry Practice leader for its large account segment. He succeeds Bill Hazelton who was recently named head of Chubb North America Claims. In this capacity, he will...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires New York’s CMS
Mar 3 2020 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Melville, N.Y.-based CMS LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1996, CMS LLC is a full-service wholesale insurance broker working with agents across the...
Walsh Duffield Announces Partnership with New York’s OSEA
Mar 3 2020 // Walsh Duffield, a fifth-generation, family owned insurance company, has partnered with OSEA Inc., a 30-year-old environmental, health, safety and security consulting firm, to provide risk management services to its...
New York Insurers Required to Waive Cost-Sharing for Coronavirus Testing
Mar 3 2020 // The New York State Department of Financial Services is requiring New York health insurers to waive cost sharing associated with testing for novel coronavirus, including emergency room, urgent care and office visits. New...
U.S. Probes Batch of Faulty Coronavirus Test Kits
Mar 2 2020 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Sunday that it is investigating a manufacturing defect in some initial coronavirus test kits that prompted some states to seek emergency approval to use their...
NRA Seeks to Block New York’s ‘Political’ Enforcement Over Liability Insurance Programs
Mar 2 2020 // The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is seeking a preliminary injunction in federal court in an attempt to stop the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) from conducting enforcement proceedings...
New York Governor Wants $40M to Respond to Coronavirus
Feb 28 2020 // New York’s governor says he will ask state lawmakers in coming days to approve $40 million to help state health officials respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, told reporters...
New York’s Greene & Associates Hires Fischer to Production Team
Feb 27 2020 // Greene & Associates, an East Aurora, N.Y.-based underwriting manager and wholesaler broker, recently announced the addition of Seth Fischer to its production team. Fischer brings 25 years of specialty underwriting,...
New York DFS Announces Settlement with Global Provider of Mobile Insurance
Feb 27 2020 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has fined Asurion Insurance Services Inc. and Asurion Protection Services LLC (Asurion) four million dollars for providing inadequate consumer disclosures for...
School Bus Crash in Upstate New York; Five Children, Two Adults Injured
Feb 26 2020 // Five children aged six to 17 and two adults were injured in a school bus accident Thursday about 60 miles northwest of New York City, according to state police. Troopers said a pick-up truck apparently rear-ended the...
Federal Appeals Court in New York Approves of $6.7M Award to Graffiti Artists
Feb 25 2020 // A federal appeals court in New York gave its approval Thursday to a $6.7 million award for nearly two dozen graffiti artists whose spray paintings at a once-famous site that attracted thousands of spectators were destroyed...
New York Stenographer Arrested for Extensive Overbilling Scheme
Feb 21 2020 // New York State Inspector General Letizia Tagliafierro has announced the arrest and arraignment of an Oswego County court stenographer who routinely added zeros to billing invoices to insurance carrier clients over the...
New York’s SterlingRisk Insurance Hires Friedman as Alternative Market Leader
Feb 21 2020 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Kaitlin Friedman as alternative market leader. A licensed property and casualty insurance broker, Friedman also provides...
Abrams Fensterman Brings Insurance Defense Group to Brooklyn
Feb 19 2020 // New York law firm Abrams Fensterman has expanded its Insurance Defense practice with the addition of a team of attorneys – two partners, five associates and support staff members – that specialize in insurance,...
Analyst Warns Regulatory Battle Over AI Bias to Grow; Lemonade Argues It’s Fair
Feb 14 2020 // As insurers introduce artificial intelligence into pricing and claims handling activities, regulatory focus on disparate impact will grow into “one of the biggest topics of the next 10 years,” a well-known...
