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New York Teen Gets Probation, Psychiatric Care in Friend’s Fire Death
Apr 27 2017 // A teenager who has been in and out of the hospital with mental health problems since the death of a friend in a massive fire the boys started was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation. A Family Court judge also ordered...
Generali Expands in U.S. with Chicago, San Francisco Offices and 3 Hires
Apr 26 2017 // Generali is expanding its U.S. global corporate and commercial operations with the opening of offices in Chicago and San Francisco in a bid to grab more business from U.S. multinational companies. The Italian...
Willis Towers Watson Names 6 to Global FINEX Senior Leadership Team
Apr 25 2017 // Insurance broker and consultant Willis Towers Watson has made six senior appointments across its Global FINEX business, the company’s financial, executive and professional risk specialty group. Jeremy Wall has been...
New York City House Fire Kills 5, Including Children
Apr 25 2017 // Investigators are scouring for clues about what sparked a fast-moving New York City house fire that killed five people, including two young boys and two teenage girls. The fire broke out Sunday afternoon, on a street full...
Schumer Calls for Better Communication After New York Penn Station Stampede
Apr 25 2017 // Sen. Charles Schumer says the stampede that injured 16 people at New York’s Penn Station just over a week ago shows a need for better coordination between law enforcement agencies at transportation hubs. The stampede...
New York Passes $153B Budget Including Workers’ Comp Reforms
Apr 24 2017 // The New York State Senate in April passed its $153 billion 2017-2018 state budget that includes reforms to workers’ compensation in the state. These reforms serve to help businesses, local governments and...
Pennsylvania Says It Busted Up Fraudulent License Plate Ring
Apr 21 2017 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general’s office on Wednesday charged a dozen people as part of an organized crime ring that it said had made millions of dollars renting out fraudulently obtained license plates,...
Concord Adds Grayer to Reps & Warranty Insurance Practice in New York
Apr 18 2017 // Concord Specialty Risk (Concord) has announced that James A. Grayer, Esq. has joined the firm as executive vice president, Reps & Warranty Insurance, after resigning as a partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel...
Capacity Group of NY Hires Jeanne Braun to Health Care Strategy Group
Apr 18 2017 // Capacity Group of NY LLC (CGNY), a division of Mahwah, N.J.-headquartered The Capacity Group – an EPIC Company, has hired Jeanne Braun as president of CGNY’s newly established Health Care Strategy Group. Braun...
New Jersey Transit Train Stuck in Tunnel Three Hours, Stun Gun Sparks Stampede
Apr 17 2017 // A train with about 1,200 passengers became stuck in a tunnel between New York and New Jersey for nearly three hours on Friday, and the chaotic scene escalated to pandemonium when Amtrak police used a stun gun to subdue a...
China’s Anbang to Abandon Attempt to Buy FGL: Sources
Apr 17 2017 // China’s Anbang Insurance Group will let its agreement to acquire U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life (FGL) for $1.6 billion lapse, after failing to secure all the necessary regulatory...
New York, New Jersey Governors Want ‘Verification’ of Penn Station Track Safety
Apr 13 2017 // The governors of New Jersey and New York say they want “independent verification” of track safety at New York’s Penn Station, citing recent train derailments and serious service disruptions. New Jersey...
Sen. Schumer Pushes for Malt Barley Crop Insurance in New York
Apr 13 2017 // Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make crop insurance for malt barley available to more New York farmers to help the craft brewing industry in the state. Schumer was at the 1886 Malt...
Goldman Sachs Loses Bid to Limit Class Action Alleging Gender Discrimination
Apr 13 2017 // A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s bid to dismiss two of the four female plaintiffs in a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the bank of discriminating against women in pay and...
First Steps Under New York’s Cyber Rules: Risk Assessment, Policies, Procedures
Apr 12 2017 // The Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies (cyber rules) promulgated by the New York Department of Financial Services went into effect on March 1. Now, insurance companies, agencies, brokerages and...
Zenefits Fined $1.2M for Violations of New York Insurance Law
Apr 12 2017 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has fined YourPeople Inc., doing business as Zenefits FTW Insurance Services, $1.2 million for allowing unlicensed employees to sell insurance and failing to...
Costly Business Disruptor: Aging U.S. Infrastructure
Apr 12 2017 // When a train jumped the tracks this past week at New York’s Penn Station, the seemingly minor accident led to a cascade of exasperating delays for hundreds of thousands of commuters. When a flood forced authorities...
New York Begins New Push to Stop Distracted Driving
Apr 10 2017 // New York is launching a statewide campaign against distracted driving as part of April’s National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said state and local police will be stepping up patrols and...
New York Sees Its Cyber Rules for Insurers as Model for Other States
Apr 10 2017 // A group of U.S. state insurance regulators should use New York’s sweeping cyber security rules as a model for how insurers must protect their networks from hackers and when they must disclose cyber events, New...
Amtrak Criticized for Derailments, Problems at New York’s Penn Station
Apr 7 2017 // The heads of the two major commuter rail lines that use New York’s Penn Station took turns criticizing Amtrak on Wednesday for two recent derailments that continued to cause headaches for commuters in the...
