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Con Edison: 156,800 Customers in N.Y. Region Still Without Power
Nov 6 2012 // Consolidated Edison says power has been restored to more than 80 percent of its customers who were blacked out in the storm. The utility still had 156,800 customers without power at midday Monday. That included about...
Sandy Claims Figure Update From State Farm, Nationwide
Nov 6 2012 // Sandy-related claims are coming in at a fast pace, major insurers say. State Farm Insurance said it received approximately 90,000 Sandy-related claims (76,100 property claims and 13,900 auto claims) as of end of day Nov....
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Eases Insurance Rules for Documenting Storm Damage
Nov 6 2012 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, Nov. 5, that he is ordering insurance companies to ease rules on documenting Sandy-related damages during the claims filing procedure. The governor said that, at his direction, the...
Sandy Exposed Hospitals’ Lack of Disaster Preparedness
Nov 6 2012 // Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died in flooded hospitals cut off from power. She never thought that she might face that danger herself. But...
AIG: Sandy Losses Won’t Be a Huge Issue Financially
Nov 5 2012 // The American International Group executives are assuring investors that Sandy-related losses won’t have any significant impact on the company’s financial strength. Also, AIG announced in its Sunday, Nov. 4,...
Conn., N.Y. Workers’ Comp Among Most Expensive in Nation
Nov 5 2012 // Connecticut employers in the volunteer market pay, on average, the second-highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the country, according to a recent study. Connecticut’s premium rate index, according to...
N.Y. Auto Shop’s Lawsuit Against Progressive Moves Forward
Nov 5 2012 // A New York-based auto body shop has been allowed to move forward with its lawsuit that accuses Progressive Insurance Group Company and its affiliates of deceptive acts and practices. The ruling last month by the Appellate...
Conn., N.Y. Workers’ Comp Among Most Expensive in Nation
Nov 5 2012 // Connecticut employers in the volunteer market pay, on average, the second-highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the country, according to a recent study. Connecticut’s premium rate index, according to...
People – East
Nov 5 2012 // Dominic Casserley will succeed Joe Plumeri as the next chief executive officer of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, effective Jan. 2013. Casserley, 54, has been a senior partner at management consulting giant...
Sandy Claims Continue to Pour In at Quick Pace
Nov 2 2012 // Insurers said Sandy-related claims have been pouring in at a rapid pace in the immediate days after the storm — and that as some sense of normalcy returns, many more claims are expected. The Progressive Corp. CEO...
Insurers, Brokers Say Some Northeast Offices Still Closed Due to Sandy
Nov 2 2012 // Superstorm Sandy — and the widespread power outages and transport problems that followed — affected business operations of numerous companies in the Northeast, including those of insurers and brokers. Companies...
Is Global Warming to Blame for Superstorm? Scientists Weigh In
Nov 2 2012 // Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that...
Controversy Over Hurricane Deductibles May Just Be Beginning
Nov 2 2012 // When the National Hurricane Center declared Sandy a “post-tropical storm” just before it made landfall, a lot of homeowners across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Maryland may have saved a lot of money....
Hurricane Sandy Takes Toll on New York’s Small Shops, Restaurants
Nov 2 2012 // Pumping water out of basements and yanking rotten food out of refrigerators, shop and restaurant owners said on Thursday they wonder when the power will come back and, more importantly, how they will possibly recover from...
Scope of Hurricane Sandy Widens, Death Toll Rises
Nov 2 2012 // From New York City’s Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and officials on Friday faced growing evidence of widespread destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy, mounting anger over...
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo: New Yorkers Won’t Have to Pay Hurricane Deductible for Sandy
Nov 1 2012 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that New York homeowners will not have to pay potentially large hurricane deductibles on insurance claims stemming from damage caused by Sandy. New York joins other...
New York, New Jersey Want Washington to Pay More Storm Costs
Nov 1 2012 // New York state on Wednesday asked the U.S. federal government to pay all the costs of cleaning up and repairing damage from massive storm Sandy that tore through the Northeast this week and crippled New York City. Governor...
Sandy Costing New York City $200 Million a Day
Nov 1 2012 // The aftermath of super storm Sandy is costing New York City up to $200 million a day in permanently lost economic activity, including everything from the sale of pizza slices to corporate mergers and other Wall Street...
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Says Long Island Hit Hardest by Sandy Power Outages
Oct 31 2012 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said yesterday that 90 percent of Long Island utility customers were without electricity after Sandy ravaged the New York City metropolitan area. He also says hundreds of lives were saved by New...
Manhattan Power Outages to Continue for Days: ConEd
Oct 31 2012 // Residents of lower Manhattan faced up to four days without power on Tuesday as Consolidated Edison, New York City’s power provider, scrambled to repair the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy. Almost every street below...
