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After Derailment, Feds Order Changes at New York Railway
Dec 9 2013 // U.S. transportation officials ordered the Metro-North Railroad last Friday to quickly overhaul its signal system and temporarily put an extra worker in the driver’s cab on some routes that have major speed changes,...
New York Insurers Predict Spike in Health Exchange Use
Dec 6 2013 // Two start-up insurers in the New York health exchange, one promising unlimited telemedicine, say customer queries have been rising rapidly and they expect enrollment spikes by the new Dec. 23 deadline for coverage next...
New York Train Wreck Engineer Suspended Without Pay
Dec 6 2013 // The engineer driving the speeding commuter train that derailed in New York City last weekend, killing four people, has been suspended without pay, a railroad spokesman said Thursday.Metro-North derailment scene in Bronx,...
New York Officials Settle With Markel for College Insurance Refunds
Dec 5 2013 // New York officials say they’ve reached a settlement with Markel Insurance Co. that will result in $2.75 million in restitution to college students who were overcharged for insurance. The New York Attorney...
Analysis: 2 Factors Key to Lawsuits Over New York Train Crash
Dec 5 2013 // For lawyers preparing to sue over Sunday’s deadly New York commuter rail accident, their success in court may depend largely on two factors: whether human error caused the derailment and if state or federal law...
Metro-North Crash Seen Thwarting Delay of Automatic Braking
Dec 4 2013 // The deadly train derailment in New York City may force railroads to install automatic brakes by 2015 and dash industry efforts to put off adding the technology by five years. The Metro-North Railroad wreck may persuade...
Portrait of New Wealth: $3 Billion Miami Art Basel Fair
Dec 4 2013 // Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest U.S. art fair, will offer more than $3 billion of mostly postwar and contemporary works when it opens to a select group of collectors today, a 20 percent increase from two years ago. Held...
Turi Elected Chair of New York Insurance Association
Dec 3 2013 // Bernard Turi, senior vice president, director of risk and reinsurance of Utica Mutual Insurance Company (a member company of the Utica National Insurance Group) was elected chair of the New York Insurance Association...
The Iroquois Group Names New York State Regional Manager
Dec 3 2013 // The Iroquois Group, a network of independent insurance agencies, appointed John Perry as a regional manager in New York State. Perry has an extensive insurance background in personal lines underwriting, personal lines...
New York Metro-North Becomes Inquiry Magnet After Held Up as Rail Model
Dec 3 2013 // Two years after being singled out for international honors, Metro-North Railroad finds itself facing a wave of retirements, under three federal safety investigations, and explaining to officials and riders why a locomotive...
Funding Approved for $50M Waterfront Flood-Mitigation Project in NYC
Dec 2 2013 // The federal government has approved funding to start a $50 million flood-mitigation project along the Queens waterfront to better protect Howard Beach against rising sea levels and storm surges similar to those that caused...
N.Y. Settling Worker-Insurance Claims With AAA Issue: Muni Deals
Dec 2 2013 // The New York Dormitory Authority is borrowing $370 million this week to repay workers’ compensation claims, the first sale under a regulatory overhaul that Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo said will save $1.2...
New York Metro-North Derailment Puts Spotlight on Rail Safety
Dec 2 2013 // A deadly derailment on a curve in Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line rekindled safety concerns and promised to snarl today’s commute for thousands of riders on one of New York’s major mass-transit...
N.Y. Comp Board Presses On to Resolve Group Trust Liabilities
Dec 2 2013 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) is pressing on with its effort to resolve the liability problems stemming from collapsed group self-insured trusts. WCB has been taking a multi-pronged approach to...
Retailers Step Up Security as ‘Rambunctious’ Holiday Shopping Begins
Dec 1 2013 // With an estimated 140 million Americans predicted to shop this weekend, retailers are bolstering security, deploying Segway patrols and putting on live music to distract shoppers and avoid the deal-hunting scrums that can...
New York Insurance Association Elects Officers, Board Directors
Nov 27 2013 // The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) recently elected its 2014 officers and board of directors at the association’s annual meeting. The following officers were elected for a one-year term ending Dec. 31,...
Gorman Named Interim CEO at Cooper Gay Re Following Carlier’s Quick Exit
Nov 27 2013 // Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has named Peter Gorman as interim chief executive officer of its North American subsidiary Cooper Gay Re following the departure of Ron Carlier. Carlier was appointed CEO of Cooper...
NYS Workers’ Comp Board Presses On to Resolve Group Trust Liabilities
Nov 26 2013 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) is pressing on with its effort to resolve the liability problems stemming from collapsed group self-insured trusts. WCB has been taking a multi-pronged approach to...
U.S. Labor Dept., N.Y. Agencies Team Up to Target Misclassification of Employees
Nov 26 2013 // Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, the New York State Labor Department and the New York State Attorney General’s Office recently signed memoranda of understanding to work...
Former New Jersey Doctor Sentenced for $19M Billing Fraud
Nov 22 2013 // The patients, most of whom were on Medicaid and Medicare, came into the medical offices of Jose Katz for checkups and consultations. The vast majority would leave with false diagnoses of coronary artery disease and...
