Latest New York Headlines
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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...
Developer Alleges Conseco Rigged Sale of N.Y. Building
Aug 15 2006 // Billionaire real-estate developer Sheldon H. Solow filed a federal lawsuit last week against insurer Conseco Inc. and one of its subsidiaries, alleging an auction to sell the General Motors Building in Manhattan in 2003...
N.Y. Looks to Speed Comp Benefits to Ill 9/11 Rescue Workers
Aug 15 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...
American Financial Announces Agreement to Sell New York Assets
Aug 14 2006 // Cincinnati-Ohio-based American Financial Group, Inc. today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell certain of its New York real estate assets. The sale is expected to close late in the third quarter or in the...
GlaxoSmithKline Settles Claim of Inflating Prices on Cancer Drugs
Aug 14 2006 // GlaxoSmithKline Inc. has agreed to pay more than $41 million in restitution to end claims by more than 40 states that it inflated the prices of drugs used by cancer patients and others. The settlement announced last...
West Named President of NIF Adirondack
Aug 10 2006 // Manhasset, New York-based NIF Group, Inc., a program administrator and general agecy, has named Robert West has president of NIF Adirondack, a branch office. Prior to joining NIF Group, West was manager of the New York...
Eastern Dentists, Medical Protective Target N.Y. Market
Aug 10 2006 // Eastern Dentists Insurance Company, a dental society risk retention group, and professional liability insurer Medical Protective have formed an alliance to provide New York dentists and oral surgeons with professional...
Reinsurance Collateral Changes Should Result in Savings, Says N.Y. Regulator
Aug 7 2006 // Any changes to state reinsurance collateralization rules for non-U.S. reinsurers should be judged on whether they produce savings that can be passed along to consumers, in the view of one influential state...
ETHAN ALLEN CAPSIZING IN N.Y. BLAMED ON TOO MANY PASSENGERS
Aug 7 2006 // The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that the probable cause of the capsizing of the Ethan Allen on New York’s Lake George last October was that it carried 48 persons when it should have carried...
People and Places
Aug 7 2006 // The Insurance Information Institute has promoted Dr. Robert P. Hartwig to president; Dr. L. James Valverde Jr. to vice president of Economics and Risk Management; and announced the retirement of Gordon Stewart,...
People and Places
Aug 7 2006 // The Insurance Information Institute has promoted Dr. Robert P. Hartwig to president; named Dr. L. James Valverde Jr. as vice president of Economics and Risk Management; and announced the retirement of Gordon Stewart,...
