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New York Launches Online Re-Licensing for Insurance Agents and Brokers
Jul 24 2017 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has launched an online application to speed up the re-licensing process for agents and brokers whose original licenses have been expired more than two years. The...
Driverless Car Technology and Its Impact in New York
Jul 24 2017 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in May signed a budget bill into law allowing self-driving and self-parking cars to be tested for one year on New York public highways. Prior to this law going into effect, the technology was...
Business Moves
Jul 24 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, After Inc. EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has acquired After Inc., a product warranty...
New York State Rejects City’s Request for Funds for Big Fire Costs
Jul 21 2017 // A western New York city won’t be getting state aid to cover the costs linked to a massive fire at a former steel plant last fall. The blaze started Nov. 9 in a large building on the Bethlehem Steel site in...
Markel Hires Ferguson to New York-Based U.S. Excess Casualty Team
Jul 21 2017 // Markel Global Insurance, a division of Markel Corporation, has hired John Ferguson as a director of its New York-based U.S. Excess Casualty team. In his new role, Ferguson serves as the retail construction practice lead...
New York Capital City Fire Damages Homes, Residents Flee
Jul 19 2017 // A fire in New York’s capital city heavily damaged five 19th century buildings and forced more than a dozen people from their homes, officials said Tuesday. Albany fire officials said the blaze started around 9 p.m....
Blaze Destroys Popular Restaurant in New York’s Finger Lakes Region
Jul 18 2017 // Fire investigators are trying to find the cause of a blaze that has destroyed a popular restaurant in New York’s Finger Lakes region. Fire officials in the city of Canandaigua say crews were alerted around 5:30 a.m....
California Governor Teaming with N.Y. Mayor to Track Climate Progress
Jul 14 2017 // California Gov. Jerry Brown announced yet another plan Wednesday to keep the United States on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the international Paris climate agreement. This time, he’s teaming up with...
Chubb Names New Leadership in Casualty Major Accounts for North America
Jul 14 2017 // Chubb today has made new leadership appointments within its Global Casualty and Excess Casualty lines of business for its North America Major Accounts division, which serves large U.S.- and Canadian-based companies...
Lockton Adds Zapantoulis to Marine Team in New York
Jul 13 2017 // Lockton has hired Christina Zapantoulis as the leader of its marine team in its Northeast U.S. operations, based in New York City. Lockton is a global professional services firm and the world’s largest privately...
A.M. Best Revises Outlook to Negative for New York’s Country-Wide
Jul 12 2017 // A.M. Best has revised its outlook to negative from stable for Country-Wide Insurance Company, a family-owned auto insurance company based in New York, N.Y. A.M. Best also affirmed Country-Wide’s Financial Strength...
New York’s U.S. Senators Urge Quick Federal Action on Flooding
Jul 12 2017 // New York’s U.S. senators are urging officials in Washington to quickly approve a disaster declaration for areas along Lake Ontario affected by recent floods. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats,...
Hub International Limited Acquires Assets of New York’s Unilite
Jul 12 2017 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of Unilite Insurance Agency Inc. (Unilite). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Lake Success, N.Y., Unilite was...
XL Catlin Appoints AIG’s Ochsenkuehn as Head of Global Programs
Jul 12 2017 // XL Catlin’s insurance operations announced the appointment of Sonja Ochsenkuehn as head of Global Programs with worldwide responsibility. Ochsenkuehn’s remit is to drive the network performance and best in...
Willis Towers Watson Announces New Leadership for North America Brokerage Unit
Jul 11 2017 // Global insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has made several senior appointments in its North America Corporate Risk and Broking (CRB) business. Mark Rusas has been appointed CRB Northeast region leader, where he will be...
Risk Strategies Company Hires Two to Employee Benefits Practice in New York
Jul 11 2017 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has hired Kate Genovese and Pauline Sobelman to its employee benefits practice group. Sobelman joins as senior vice...
Business Moves
Jul 10 2017 // Cross Insurance, Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine-based subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., has acquired Appleby & Wyman Insurance Agency, making it the 16th Massachusetts...
People
Jul 10 2017 // Lawley, an independent insurance broker headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., has launched its life science insurance practice, led by life science veterans Jose Carbajal and William DeStefano. The team will be based out of...
New York Launches Online Re-Licensing for Insurance Agents and Brokers
Jul 7 2017 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has launched an online application to speed up the re-licensing process for agents and brokers whose original licenses have been expired more than two years. The...
5.4M U.S. Homes at Risk from Sea Level Rise, Report Using Census Data Shows
Jul 6 2017 // Nearly 10 million people living in 5.4 million homes have a high risk from rising sea levels and will be adversely impacted by climate change, according to a new report that takes data from U.S. Census tracts near the...
