Latest New York Headlines
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Flooded Pa. Homeowners Blame Spillover from N.Y. City Reservoirs
Sep 7 2006 // New York City’s thirst for drinking water is clashing with Anthony Harlacher’s desire not to be flooded. Harlacher, who has endured three major floods in two years, is spending tens of thousands of dollars to...
Aon Freed to Accept Contingent Pay When Serving as MGA
Sep 7 2006 // Aon Corporation said it has obtained agreement from five agencies in three states to amend its settlement agreements so that it can accept contingent compensation from an insurer for which Aon is acting as a general agent...
McGowan Joins Beecher Carlson Executive Liability Team in N.Y.
Sep 6 2006 // Insurance broker Beecher Carlson has expanded its New York Executive Liability team with the addition of Michael McGowan as producer. Prior to joining Beecher Carlson, McGowan served as national sales and marketing manager...
Study: Seven Out of 10 WTC Rescuers Have Suffered Lung Problems
Sep 6 2006 // Nearly seven out of every ten World Trade Center responders suffered lung problems during or after their work at ground zero, and high rates of lung “abnormalities” continued years after the 2001 terrorist...
N.Y. Mobile Command Center Wins Best Practices Award
Sep 6 2006 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills announced that The New York State Forum, a part of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, is giving a 2005-2006 Best Practices Award to the New York State Insurance...
Five Seek to Define N.Y. Attorney General Role After Spitzer
Sep 5 2006 // Democrat Eliot Spitzer has tackled illegal trading on Wall Street and fraudulent deals in the insurance industry and sued the federal government to force environmental protections in his nearly eight years as attorney...
USI Holdings Buys Leader Associates and Emerson Reid, N.Y.-N.J. Agencies
Sep 5 2006 // USI Holdings Corporation has acquired Melville, N.Y.-based Leader Associates. The acquisition is expected to contribute approximately $9 million in revenue to USI on an annual basis. Terms of the transaction were not...
James J. Donelon, Louisiana, Commissioner of Insurance
Sep 4 2006 // With his state still in recovery mode after last year’s Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon is arguably one of the busiest state insurance regulators in the U.S. While...
Higher office
Sep 4 2006 // The race to succeed Eliot Spitzer, recognized thorn in the side of the insurance industry, as New York attorney general is underway. Five candidates are running. Four Democrats, all public sector professionals, are vying:...
N.Y. speeds up benefits to 9/11 rescue workers
Sep 4 2006 // New York State has adopted a trio of laws designed to speed workers’ compensation benefits for workers and their families with claims related to 9/11 rescue efforts. The first new law enables many workers who became...
People and Places
Sep 4 2006 // American International Group Inc. named Nicholas J. Ashooh as senior vice president of communications. Ashooh succeeds John T. Wooster Jr. who had filled that role on a temporary basis since year-end 2005, and earlier had...
Pursuing Auto Insurance Fraud as Organized Crime Pays Off
Sep 1 2006 // Investigators across the country are trying new tactics to crack down on the old problem of auto insurance fraud, using wiretaps, undercover agents and prosecutors who view the schemes and scams the same way they do...
Tranquilli Joins GAB Robins in N.Y.
Aug 30 2006 // GAB Robins North America, Inc., a global risk management services firm, has named Kim Tranquilli to lead the company’s sales efforts in the New York City area. Tranquilli joins GAB Robins from Risk Enterprise...
Afsharnik Joins Wachovia Executive Liability Practice in N.Y.
Aug 23 2006 // Miles R. Afsharnik has joined Wachovia Insurance Services, Inc. as a vice president and National Claims and Legal Resource Director for the Executive Liability Advisors group. Afsharnik will be located in Wachovia...
Willis to Move N.Y. City Office to One World Financial Center
Aug 22 2006 // Joe Plumeri, chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, has signed a long-term lease for 205,000 square feet of space at the World Financial Center located in lower Manhattan in Battery Park...
Adirondack Exchange Opens for New York Personal Lines
Aug 22 2006 // Adirondack Insurance Exchange is now offering auto, homeowners, package, boat, fire and personal umbrella insurance to New York consumers, through select independent insurance agents. Adirondack, an insurance exchange that...
It Figures
Aug 21 2006 // 86% The percent of Virginians opposed to increasing fees on car insurance to help pay for transportation improvements. The Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. survey also found that 10 percent supported insurance fees...
N.Y. AIG Sponsors ‘Goals for Kids’ Program
Aug 18 2006 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG), the principal sponsor of Manchester United Football Club, today announced the launch of the “AIG Goals for Kids” program. For each goal that Manchester United scores...
N.Y. Gov. Vetoes Workers’ Comp Bill
Aug 18 2006 // New York Gov. George Pataki has vetoed a bill (A.8713-B) that insurers say would have increased costs in the state’s workers compensation system. “New York’s businesses and workers need comprehensive...
N.Y. Attorney General Candidates Make Their Cases
Aug 16 2006 // The five N.Y. candidates running for state attorney general will get their first chance to introduce themselves to a large number of voters in a statewide town hall meeting and debate this week. “Right now it means...
