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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...
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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...
Q&A: How Driverless Car Technology Could Impact New York and Other States
Jul 6 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv 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...
Aetna Settles on New York for New Headquarters in 2018
Jul 5 2017 // Aetna Inc., the third-largest U.S. health insurer, will move its corporate headquarters to New York City next year, making it the latest company to leave Connecticut as the state raises taxes and deals with a budget...
Alliant Hires New York’s Kenny to Facilitate Eastern Expansion
Jun 30 2017 // Alliant has hired Kevin T. Kenny to its Alliant Americas division. In his new role, the New York-based executive vice president and managing director will play an integral role in expanding the middle market...
New York Subway Train Derails, Scaring Passengers and Injuring Dozens
Jun 29 2017 // A subway train derailed Tuesday as it entered a station, tossing people to the floor, forcing hundreds of shaken-up passengers to evacuate through darkened tunnels and delivering another jolt to a transit system plagued by...
‘WannaCry’-Like Cyber Attack Spreading to Firms Globally
Jun 27 2017 // A new cyberattack similar to WannaCry is spreading from Europe to the U.S. and South America, hitting port operators in New York, Rotterdam and Argentina, disrupting government systems in Kiev, and disabling operations at...
More New York Malt Barley Farmers Eligible for Crop Insurance
Jun 27 2017 // Malt barley farmers in 44 upstate New York counties are now eligible for crop insurance from the federal government. Malt barley is a necessary ingredient in beer and spirits, and the lack of crop insurance had hindered...
New York Woman, Three Others Charged with Killing Her Mother
Jun 26 2017 // Authorities say a 22-year-old New York woman and three other people have been charged in the killing of the woman’s mother for insurance money. The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office says the suspects include...
Confie Completes Two Acquisitions in New York
Jun 22 2017 // Confie, a national provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, has completed two acquisitions in New York. In the Bronx, N.Y., area, Confie acquired Tremont Spirit Insurance Inc. Tremont is a provider of...
NYC Planners With Sandy Nightmares Say Barrier May Come Too Late
Jun 21 2017 // The warming Atlantic Ocean has raised the risk of another Hurricane Sandy. And still, trillions of dollars of real estate and infrastructure near the shores of New York City and northern New Jersey remain vulnerable to...
U.S. Sen. Schumer Pushes for Heroin Combat Teams in New York
Jun 20 2017 // U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for federal help in the fight against opioid addiction in New York. Schumer is asking the Drug Enforcement Agency to provide the state with one of four special heroin enforcement teams...
Tragic London Fire Raises Questions About ‘Stay Put’ High-Rise Safety Rule
Jun 19 2017 // A catastrophic blaze at a London apartment tower has brought new scrutiny to a long-accepted, counterintuitive rule for people in tall buildings: If the blaze breaks out elsewhere in the structure, don’t...
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Jun 19 2017 // Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B), a Mechanicsburg, Penn.-based professional trade association, will have a new president and CEO at the helm beginning in January 2018. Deputy CEO and Counsel Jason Ernest will take...
Hub Northeast Promotes Schreiber to President of Commercial Lines
Jun 16 2017 // Hub International Northeast (Hub Northeast), a subsidiary of Hub International Limited (Hub), has promoted senior vice president and chief sales officer (CSO), Ken Schreiber, to president of commercial lines. In this new...
Carbon Monoxide Leak Sickens 32 People in New York City
Jun 16 2017 // A carbon monoxide leak in a building three blocks from the World Trade Center sickened 32 people and raised alarm that shuttered several busy blocks in lower Manhattan at the start of the workday Tuesday, authorities...
New York Approves Workers’ Comp Renewal Notice Legislation
Jun 16 2017 // Final legislation has been approved in New York that aims to enable insurance agents to better serve workers’ compensation clients if signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The legislation was developed by the...
