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Probe Underway Into Fatal Blasts, Fire at New York Cosmetics Factory
Nov 22 2017 // State and local authorities are trying to determine what triggered explosions and a fire at a cosmetics factory in New York’s Hudson Valley that killed one employee and injure nearly three dozen other workers and...
New York’s Mackoul & Associates is a Business About People
Nov 20 2017 // Working toward joining the Minor Leagues as an umpire to becoming the CEO of an insurance agency may seem like a big career change, but for Ed Mackoul, CEO and president of Mackoul & Associates Inc. in Island Park,...
Key Metrics of New York Workers’ Comp System Tracked in New WCRI Study
Nov 20 2017 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) released a tool for policymakers and system stakeholders to track New York workers’ compensation system performance. Originally established to monitor the system...
American Arbitration Association Opens Office in Upstate New York
Nov 17 2017 // The American Arbitration Association (AAA), a provider of conflict management and dispute resolution services, has opened a new office in Buffalo, N.Y., offering local arbitration support in a region that has experienced...
House Passes Tax Cut Package; Debate Moves to Senate
Nov 17 2017 // Congressional Republicans took an important step on Thursday toward the biggest U.S. tax-code overhaul since the 1980s as the House of Representatives approved a broad package of tax cuts sought by senior lawmakers and...
The Hilb Group Acquires Majority of Assets from New Jersey’s IOA Northeast NY Inc.
Nov 16 2017 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired the majority of the assets of IOA Northeast NY Inc. (IOANE), a division of IOA National Inc. The transaction became effective November 1, 2017. Located in Florham Park, N.J., IOANE...
Alliant Hires Tamburro as Vice President in New York
Nov 15 2017 // The Public Entity Group of Alliant has hired Anthony Tamburro as vice president. With more than 25 years of expertise in the Eastern United States, New York-based Tamburro will provide targeted risk management and...
Maine’s The MEMIC Group Hires Bialek to Support New York Market Growth
Nov 14 2017 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has hired Tammy Bialek as senior production underwriter to support growth within the New York market. Bialek has more than 25 years...
Hub International Northeast Hires Farrell and Reale
Nov 13 2017 // Hub International Northeast, a subsidiary of global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited, has hired Terrance Farrell as vice president of marketing and Vaughan Reale as vice president, responsible for employee...
How Cabbies Are Morphing Into Hybrid Taxi-Ridesharing Firms
Nov 8 2017 // Taxi companies across the U.S. waged a bitter, high-profile battle to keep Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. from bringing the sharing economy to cabs. They lost. Now the cabbies are adopting a...
Declarations
Nov 6 2017 // Fire Starter? “We still don’t know whether the fires caused pole or line damage or the poles caused the fires. They may never sort it out.” — Michael Picker, chairman of the California Public...
DFS Finalizes Regulation to Strengthen New York No-Fault Insurance Law
Nov 6 2017 // A new regulation issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) aims to curb costs and abuses of New York’s no-fault insurance law while leveling the playing field for New York insurers,...
New York Finalizes Regulations to Crack Down on Title Insurance Industry
Nov 6 2017 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has finalized two regulations to protect New Yorkers and crack down on unscrupulous practices in the title insurance industry. These regulations, which are the...
IICF Announces 11th Annual Benefit Dinner in New York to Honor Ryan Specialty Group
Nov 6 2017 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) will host its 11th annual Northeast Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. The dinner is expected to draw the attendance...
New York Car Dealer to Get Prison Time for Fraud, Theft and Forgery
Nov 3 2017 // A 63-year-old man faces prison time for fraud, forgery and other illegal activities at the two car dealerships he operated in western New York. Richard Giza, of Lancaster, has pleaded guilty in Erie County Court to grand...
Safety National Re Hires Wilmot and Wizner in New York
Nov 2 2017 // Safety National Re has hired Lydia Wilmot as vice president and Stephanie Wizner as assistant vice president. Wilmot and Wizner will be based out of New York. With more than 15 years of combined industry-related insurance...
Man Charged with Torching New York Thousand Islands Motel in September
Nov 1 2017 // The husband of a former manager of a motel in New York’s Thousand Islands region has been charged with setting a fire that destroyed most of the business in September. State police say they’ve charged...
Key Metrics of New York Workers’ Comp System Tracked in New WCRI Study
Oct 31 2017 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) released a new tool for policymakers and system stakeholders to track the performance of the New York workers’ compensation system. “Originally established to...
New York’s Lawley Hires Overhoff as Loss Control Manager
Oct 30 2017 // Lawley, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based, independent insurance broker, has hired loss control veteran Bob Overhoff Jr. as loss control manager. Previously the director of corporate safety at LPCiminelli, Overhoff Jr. will work out...
AIG, Insurer for Disney/ABC, Balks at Paying Part of ‘Pink Slime’ Settlement
Oct 27 2017 // American International Group Inc. on Thursday sued Walt Disney Co. to avoid having to reimburse the parent of ABC News for part of a settlement of a meat producer’s defamation lawsuit over a product that critics call...
