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Las Vegas Mass Shooting Raises Concerns Over Safety at Live Events
Oct 2 2017 // The shooting attack at a Las Vegas concert on Sunday night that killed at least 58 people is the latest in a series of massacres reshaping the live-events industry. The attack by a solo gunman at an outdoor country-music...
Distinguished Programs Hires Borelli to New York Office
Oct 2 2017 // Distinguished Programs, a national insurance program manager, has named Brett Borelli as the company’s new vice president of strategic program development and property practice leader. Based in the company’s...
After Deadly New York Crash, Schumer Seeks Charter Bus Safety Grades
Oct 2 2017 // U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says charter bus companies should be graded for safety and the grades should be posted the way New York City posts restaurant letter grades. The New York Democrat says letter grades for bus safety...
Trust But Verify: New York Cyber Regs Mean Managing Third-Party Security
Oct 2 2017 // This year, the beginning of September marked a critical implementation deadline for some of the toughest new cybersecurity regulations in the country – the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)...
People
Oct 2 2017 // Hub International Limited (HUB), a global insurance brokerage, has expanded its New York operation through the addition of entertainment specialist Cameron Smith, who joined the firm as senior vice president. Smith has...
Business Moves
Oct 2 2017 // World Insurance Associates LLC, Bruen DiDio Associates Inc. World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., has acquired Bruen Deldin DiDio Associates Inc. (BDD) of New...
Declarations
Oct 2 2017 // Wakeup Call “The Equifax breach was a wakeup call, and with this action, New York is raising the bar for consumer protections that we hope will be replicated across the nation.” — New York Governor Andrew...
N.Y. Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgement in $58M Insurance Dispute
Sep 29 2017 // The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Department, has affirmed an earlier Supreme Court decision to grant summary judgement to TransCanada Energy USA and its subsidiaries, TC Ravenswood Services Corp....
Massachusetts’ XS Brokers Hires Buccinna to New York Office
Sep 29 2017 // XS Brokers, a Quincy, Mass.-headquartered independent insurance brokerage, has hired Peter Buccinna to head a new local office for the firm in East Chatham, N.Y. The hiring of Buccinna as assistant vice president and...
Equifax Promises Improved Consumer Access to Credit Records
Sep 29 2017 // Equifax Inc. promised to make it easier for consumers to control access to their credit records in the wake of the company’s massive breach after the top U.S. consumer financial watchdog called on the industry to...
SEFCU Insurance to Transfer Commercial Practice to New York’s Rose & Kiernan
Sep 28 2017 // SEFCU Insurance Agency, a wholly owned subsidiary of SEFCU with offices in Schenectady, Cobleskill, Cooperstown, and Schoharie, N.Y., will transfer its commercial property and casualty and benefits practices to Rose &...
NYWCA Launches Campaign to Stop Cuts to Injured Worker Benefits
Sep 27 2017 // The New York Workers’ Compensation Alliance (NYWCA) has launched a campaign to fight proposed Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) regulations and impairment guidelines that it says would drastically cut...
Trump Administration Argues U.S. Civil Rights Law Does Not Protect Gay Employees
Sep 27 2017 // The U.S. law that has protected workers from gender and racial bias for more than half a century should not be extended to cover gay and lesbian employees because that isn’t what Congress envisioned when it passed...
Robo Adviser Helps Drive Record Boost in AIG Investment Business
Sep 27 2017 // American International Group Inc., the 98-year-old insurer and retirement planner, is finding being tech-savvy pays off. Consumers are pumping cash into a unit that oversees $244 billion in client assets after it invested...
Two of the Oldest Statewide Insurance Trade Groups in U.S. Launch New Brands
Sep 25 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) and The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY) launched new brands today for their respective associations. IIABNJ became Big I...
Two Workers Die in Separate New York Building Construction Site Falls
Sep 25 2017 // Two construction workers, one of them a father of five children, fell to their deaths at separate building sites on Thursday. The first death occurred in the morning at a residential high-rise construction site in the...
Official Says Bus in Deadly New York Crash Going Twice the Speed Limit
Sep 22 2017 // Federal safety investigators say a charter bus that blew through a red light in New York City and caused a horrific crash that killed three people was traveling at nearly double the posted speed limit. National...
U.S. Safety Board Says Train Crash Engineers Had Undiagnosed Sleep Disorder
Sep 22 2017 // The engineers in two New York City area commuter train crashes suffered from sleep apnea that had not been diagnosed, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday. The NTSB released factual findings on...
Former New York Insurance Broker Sentenced to Prison for $1.8M Scheme
Sep 21 2017 // A former insurance broker in Long Island, N.Y., who pleaded guilty to grand larceny and fraud has been sentenced to serve three to nine years in prison. Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said Tuesday that...
JLT Specialty USA Appoints Cornish as Director Based in New York City
Sep 21 2017 // JLT Specialty USA, a U.S. subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. (JLT), has announced the appointment of Keith Cornish as director based in New York City. The appointment is part of JLT’s continued...
