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Insurance, Sports Pros Gather at Tri-State Charitable Foundation Dinner

Dec 9 2010 // More than 800 insurance professionals from the tri-state area and two All-Star athletes channeled their competitive energies last night to raise $1.1 million for charities. The New York division of the Insurance Industry...

Brown & Brown Acquires Ladd’s Agency

Dec 9 2010 // Insurance broker Brown & Brown has acquired the assets of Ladd’s Agency, an Upstate New York-based insurance agency owned by Alliance Financial Corp. Ladd’s, with annual revenue of roughly $1.4 million, has...

New York Prosecutor Faces $75M Defamation Suit

Dec 8 2010 // An upstate New York prosecutor who charged a Florida pharmacy in 2007 with selling anabolic steroids to pro athletes and entertainers is being sued for $75 million by the pharmacists, who claim defamation and false arrest...

Ex-Superintendent Dinallo Joins New York Law Firm

Dec 6 2010 // Eric Dinallo, former superintendent of the New York Insurance Department, is joining the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton as a partner. Dinallo, who lost the state democratic primary nomination for attorney general...

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Dec 5 2010 // Massachusetts agency Provider Insurance has hired Sharon Cardoso as personal lines account manager. She will be responsible for acquiring new clients and expanding existing client accounts in the personal lines division...

New York Agents Lose Court Battle over Compensation Disclosure

Dec 5 2010 // New York agents failed to make their case that insurance regulators cannot require agents and brokers to disclose their commissions, a Supreme Court judge has ruled. That decision by Supreme Court Justice Richard M....

New York Eases Some Workers’ Compensation Policy Rules

Dec 5 2010 // New York has eased some workers’ compensation insurance requirements for out-of-state businesses that do only occasional, non-construction work in the Empire State. The rule change comes after years of lobbying by...

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Dec 5 2010 // Aon Corp. reported that Andrew Appel, the firm’s chief operating officer, will be leaving the company at the end of the year. The company said there are no plans to fill the position upon Appel’s...

New York Plans to Reduce Red Tape in Insurance Filings

Dec 3 2010 // The New York Insurance Department said it implement recommendations aimed at streamlining and improving the process for insurers to file their rates and forms with regulators. The recommendation comes from a new report by...

New York Dinner for Insurance Charitable Fund Tops $1 Million

Dec 1 2010 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) New York division has surpassed the $1 million mark for ticket sales for its 2010 benefit dinner, which will be held Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...

AXA Sues ING in New York over 2008 Mexican Insurance Sale

Nov 30 2010 // A unit of French insurer AXA has sued an arm of Dutch insurer ING in New York state court, alleging ING misrepresented the financial health of a Mexican insurance company it sold to AXA in 2008. AXA said it has suffered...

New York Eases Some Workers’ Compensation Policy Rules

Nov 30 2010 // New York has eased some workers’ compensation insurance requirements for out-of-state businesses that do only occasional, non-construction work in the Empire State. The rule change comes after years of lobbying by...

High Court Sides with New York City Police in 2005 Shootout

Nov 30 2010 // New York City police officers were justified in shooting at an armed suspect on a Harlem street in 2005, a shootout that injured a mother and daughter playing nearby, New York’s highest court ruled. The officers had...

Hate Crime Victim’s Estate Sues New York Authorities

Nov 24 2010 // The estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant has filed a $40 million civil rights lawsuit that blames police inaction over prior violence for the man’s stabbing death during a confrontation with a mob of teens who had made...

New York Agents Lose Court Battle over Compensation Disclosure

Nov 22 2010 // New York agents failed to make their case that insurance regulators cannot require agents and brokers to disclose their commissions, a Supreme Court judge has ruled. That just-released decision by Supreme Court Justice...

Deal Settles Most Lawsuits over WTC Toxic Dust

Nov 22 2010 // A deal reached by New York City and workers exposed to toxic dust that blanketed ground zero after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will resolve an overwhelming majority of the lawsuits over the city’s failure to...

New York Court Validates Resale of Life Insurance Policies

Nov 18 2010 // New York’s highest court Wednesday said it was legal for residents of the state to take out life insurance on themselves and immediately sell the policy, a ruling seen as having substantial implications in the...

New York Insurance Association Elects New Leadership

Nov 18 2010 // The New York Insurance Association elected new officers and directors at its annual meeting last week. Richard Zick, president and CEO of Utica First Insurance Co., will serve as chairman. Other officers will be First Vice...

ACE USA Restructures Retail Operations with Kinsella, Church, Stoer

Nov 16 2010 // Ace USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group, announced a new structure and senior leadership appointments. The structure consists of two zonal operations and a centralized complex risk unit for...

General Star Expands Admitted Architects, Engineers Product to NY, NJ

Nov 16 2010 // General Star has expanded its architects and engineers professional liability program on an admitted basis to New York and New Jersey. This new feature is part of General Star’s nationwide A & E program, launched...