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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...
East Coast Watching Effect of ‘Zombie’ Storm Jose on Maria’s Path
Sep 21 2017 // Hurricane Maria continued its thunderous roll northward as forecasters struggled to pin down a trajectory. Whether the storm makes landfall again could be determined by a zombie. That’s what former Hurricane Jose...
New York State Prepares Long Island for Hurricane Jose’s Impact
Sep 20 2017 // New York state officials have deployed members of the National Guard and specialized emergency response units to Long Island to prepare for potentially severe weather caused by Hurricane Jose. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says 100...
Advocates Rally Behind New Federal Bill to Fix New York’s Scaffold Law
Sep 19 2017 // The Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York (LRANY) today will join the New York State Association for Affordable Housing (NYSAFAH), Habitat for Humanity, MWBE contractors and other construction and business organizations to...
New York’s Cuomo Proposes Regulation in Wake of Equifax Security Breach
Sep 19 2017 // In response to the recent cyberattack that exposed the personal private data of nearly 150 million consumers nationwide, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has directed the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) to...
What If an Irma-Like Hurricane Hit the New York City Metro Area?
Sep 19 2017 // It sounds like a Hollywood disaster movie. A Category 5 hurricane churning in the mid-Atlantic suddenly veers northwest – and heads straight for New York City. The good news is that, for now, experts agree a Cat...
Hurricane Maria Speeds Up, Threatening Already-Battered Caribbean Islands
Sep 17 2017 // For the third time this month, a hurricane is spinning toward the already battered Caribbean and gathering strength along the way. The National Hurricane Center upgraded tropical storm Maria to a hurricane Sunday as winds...
Fire Destroys Large Section of New York Motel
Sep 15 2017 // Investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed a large section of a northern New York motel in the heart of a popular Thousand Islands tourist destination. Officials say the fire broke out around...
Judge Allows Ex-AIG Leader Greenberg’s Defamation Claim Against Ex-AG Spitzer
Sep 14 2017 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former chief executive of American International Group Inc., may pursue large parts of his defamation lawsuit against former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a New York state...
PIANY Elects Holender President, Names Directors and Officers
Sep 14 2017 // Professional Insurance Agents of New York Inc. has elected Fred Holender as president at an annual meeting of the association’s board of directors in Glenmont, N.Y. Holender is director of administration for Lawley...
Exxon Must Disclose Accounting Details in New York Climate Probe
Sep 14 2017 // Exxon Mobil Corp.’s attempt to use “accountant-client privilege” to avoid handing over audit documents in a politically charged climate-change probe was dealt a final blow by New York’s top...
New York’s Brady Risk Program Managers Hires Three
Sep 13 2017 // Brady Risk Program Managers and its partner companies, Tritan Risk Management Group and Healthcare Risk Management Group, have announced that Michael McKeown has joined the firm as senior vice president of brokerage and...
New York’s Brady Risk Management Opens New England Office
Sep 11 2017 // Brady Risk Management Inc., a Huntington, N.Y.-based financial risk management firm, has announced the opening of Brady Risk New England Property/Casualty Managing General Insurance Agency based in Portland, Maine. The new...
New York’s ‘Sixth Borough’ with Trophy Condos in Hurricane Irma’s Path
Sep 8 2017 // Beyond the bar and the palm-fringed pool, past the gold-leafed columns and floor-to-ceiling murals, workers at the grand Faena Hotel Miami Beach prepared for Hurricane Irma’s fury. Their unusual assignment: fortify...
Willis Towers Watson Hires Pipala in New York
Sep 8 2017 // Willis Towers Watson, a global advisory, broking and solutions company, has hired Tom Pipala as client advocate in its real estate and hospitality practice, which is part of its corporate risk and broking business. Based...
