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Hartford Unit Faces Racketeering Suit on Sandy Claims
Dec 4 2014 // A couple claiming damage from Hurricane Sandy filed court papers accusing a Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. unit, an engineering firm and a law firm for the insurer of engaging in racketeering by scheming to use...
New York Troopers Issued 11,198 Tickets Over Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend
Dec 4 2014 // New York State Police issued more than 11,000 tickets over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. During the five-day campaign that started last Wednesday, regular patrols were beefed up statewide to focus on speed enforcement,...
New York AG Directs Legal Services Providers to Assist Buffalo Residents
Dec 4 2014 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman met with local leaders in Buffalo Wednesday and announced that he is making a network of housing counselors and legal services providers available to help area residents...
Update: Hartford Unit Accused of Using Fudged Hurricane Sandy Report
Dec 3 2014 // A Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. unit was accused by a lawyer representing Hurricane Sandy victims of using a falsified damage report to dodge paying homeowner claims, the second insurer blamed in the last month...
AIA Hires Cooper as VP for State Affairs, Northeast Region
Dec 2 2014 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) has hired Alison Cooper as vice president for state affairs, Northeast region, effective January 2015. Cooper, who currently serves as director of the Senate Insurance Committee in...
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Sept. 11 Environmental Appeal
Dec 2 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a New York real estate developer’s lawsuit against the leaseholder of the destroyed World Trade Center and two airlines seeking environmental cleanup costs related...
AIG Bailout Judge Not Intimidated by Government, Wall Street Names
Dec 1 2014 // Hank Greenberg’s legal assault on the U.S. government and the terms imposed in its 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc. brought a parade of financial crisis superstars to a Washington courthouse,...
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Wants State to Have Best Weather Monitoring System
Dec 1 2014 // Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants New York to create the nation’s best weather monitoring system, one more robust than even the National Weather Service and more capable of predicting events like the snowstorm that buried...
Stewart – Former I.I.I. President, Speechwriter, Arts Instructor, Exchange VP-Dies
Dec 1 2014 // Gordon Curran Stewart, former president of the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.), died Wednesday, November 26, in his hometown of Garrison, New York. Stewart joined the Institute in 1989 as executive vice president...
Willis Lauds UN’s Support for ‘1-in-100’ Natural Disaster Risk Initiative
Dec 1 2014 // Willis Group announced that the “1-in-100” disaster resilience initiative, of which it has been a key architect, has received support from the United Nations. The “1-in-100” is a drive by public and...
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
N.J. Sen. Menendez Presses for Sandy Flood Insurance Probe
Dec 1 2014 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency should investigate allegations that insurance companies handling Superstorm Sandy flood damage claims are manipulating them to shortchange victims, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.,...
People – East
Dec 1 2014 // Utica Mutual Insurance Company in New Hartford, New York, announced that at a meeting of the board of directors on Nov. 6, the board approved the nomination of Richard Creedon as the next chief executive officer. Creedon...
New York Court Shows Leniency in Dismissal of Going-Private Buyout Claim
Nov 30 2014 // A four-page opinion from an appellate court in New York suggests a way to insulate companies and their boards from lawsuits in going-private transactions. The decision stems from the 2012 buyout of Kenneth Cole Productions...
Judge Denies GM Bid to Merge California, New York Ignition Switch Suits
Nov 28 2014 // General Motors Co. lost a bid to merge a California county prosecutor’s lawsuit over faulty ignition switches with customer cases pending in New York that make similar accusations about the carmaker’s conduct...
New York Firefighters’ Group Urges Kitchen Caution on Thanksgiving
Nov 26 2014 // Firefighters are urging people to be careful in the kitchen this Thanksgiving. The Firemen’s Association of the State of New York has issued a holiday reminder that cooking fires are the number one cause of home...
Snowstorm Recovery Efforts Continue in Buffalo, N.Y.
Nov 25 2014 // The Buffalo, New York, region is continuing to recover and assess damages from last week’s record-breaking lake-effect snowstorm that brought more than 7 feet of snow to the area. State Farm spokesperson Rachael...
NYC Incurred Record $732M in Legal Costs Last Fiscal Year
Nov 25 2014 // New York incurred a record $732 million in legal costs in the last fiscal year, mostly from claims of police abuse, negligence and hiring discrimination, expenses that accelerated under Mayor Bill de Blasio. The amount...
Documents At End of AIG Bailout Testimony Could Aid Greenberg
Nov 24 2014 // The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s legal advisers sought to devise ways to avoid accountability to shareholders in the 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc., according to evidence introduced at the...
Superstorm Sandy Victims Allege Racketeering in Flood Claims Review
Nov 24 2014 // Wright National Flood Insurance Co. and U.S. Forensic LLC, an engineering firm, were sued by New York homeowners who claim the companies conspired to manipulate reports and avoid paying for damages from Hurricane Sandy in...
