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N.Y. Assembly Committee Forced to Vote on ‘Scaffold Law’ Reform Sought by Employers and Insurers
May 21 2004 // Chances there will be a vote on a key New York tort reform bill have improved after the Democratic sponsor of the bill has made a procedural move that will prompt the Assembly Labor Committee to consider his bill to reform...
Chubb Latest to Face N.Y. Probe of Compensation Pacts
May 18 2004 // The Chubb Corporation in Warren, N.J. has received a subpoena seeking information regarding certain compensation agreements between insurance brokers and Chubb’s insurance companies from the New York Attorney General...
Excess Line Association of N.Y. Elects Directors
May 17 2004 // The Excess Line Association of New York (ELANY) announced the results of it recent board elections at its annual members meeting on May 6, 2004 in Pearl River, New York. The newly elected directors are Kurt C. Bingeman of...
N.Y. CAR LEASING TAKES TO AIRWAVES:
May 17 2004 // An auto industry group, The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, has launched a radio advertising campaign directed at the Democratic-controlled New York Assembly trying to prod the lawmakers into revoking the...
N.Y. Proposes Safety Rules for Kids’ Camps
May 17 2004 // New York State is considering tightening safety rules for children’s summer camps, proposing lifeguards at least 18 years old supervise wilderness swimming and that guardrails be installed on camp bunk beds. The...
N.Y. FAIR Plan Operations Suspended; Lawmakers Fail to Pass Legislation
May 16 2004 // Operations of the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association, or FAIR Plan, have once again been suspended due to the failure of lawmakers to pass legislation renewing the program. More than 50,000 businesses and...
N.Y. Woman Arrested on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
May 13 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of a Schenevus woman for defrauding the Workers’ Compensation system out of more than $23,000. It is alleged that Marie Banks, 41, wrongfully...
Crater to Head Hanover’ s N.Y.-N.J. Commercial Lines
May 11 2004 // The Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies announced that Alan Crater has been named regional president of their downstate New York and New Jersey commercial lines divisions, effective immediately. Crater comes to...
Albany Agent Vows Active Administration after Election to Head IIABNY
May 10 2004 // The newly-elected leader of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. is promising to put the full weight of the trade association behind efforts to restore the state’s once-healthy insurance...
Insurers Back N.Y. DOI’s Proposed No-Fault Fixes
May 10 2004 // The New York State Insurance Department’s proposed amendments to Regulation 83 would reportedly move the state’s no-fault auto reparations system toward more measured and reasonable cost control without...
N.Y. Gov. Pataki Seeks Patient Protections
May 7 2004 // New York Governor George E. Pataki and Senator Kemp Hannon have introduced a measure in the state Senate that would strengthen protections for patients and ensure that additional background checks for health professionals...
AIA Informs N.Y. Legislators on Need to Extend TRIA
May 7 2004 // Congress needs to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2004 to avoid confusion and dislocation in the commercial insurance market, the American Insurance Association told a New York State Assembly hearing...
Industry Tells N.Y. Lawmakers Alternatives to TRIA in Works in Case Congress Fails to Renew as Hoped
May 7 2004 // The insurance industry has rebounded after the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center – the largest loss in insurance history, according to the New York Insurance Association (NYIA). Addressing a...
N.Y. Woman No Jewel; Arrested on Fraud Charges
May 7 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau on Friday announced the arrest and indictment of a Manhattan resident for attempting to collect $262,000 in an insurance...
N.Y. Again Faces Renewal of FAIR Plan
May 5 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. is asking lawmakers in Albany to reauthorize the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association, which offers tens of thousands of New Yorkers access to home...
N.Y. Dept.’s of Insurance, State Recognize Arson Awareness Week, Encourage New Yorkers to Join Fight
May 4 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio and Secretary of State Randy Daniels on Monday recognized national “Arson Awareness Week” by encouraging New Yorkers to protect themselves from arson-related...
People and Places
May 3 2004 // Leonard Brevik The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has named Leonard C. Brevik as executive vice president of the association and chief executive officer of its for-profit subsidiary, PIA...
Supt. Serio to Join CEOs on IIABNY Panel May 6
Apr 30 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. will sharpen its focus on the future of the insurance industry May 6 when it hosts a CEO Roundtable at the association’s 2004 Local Association...
N.Y. Jury Denies Drug Convict’s Med-Mal Claim
Apr 29 2004 // A federal jury in New York has ruled against a convicted drug mule who claimed he was improperly forced to undergo surgery to remove heroin-filled condoms he had ingested. William Meequaye Kanyi filed suit against doctors,...
Acquisition of Oxford to Boost UnitedHealth’s Share of Region’s Fortune 500 Firms’ Business
Apr 28 2004 // With its planned acquisition of Oxford Health Plans Inc., UnitedHealth Group is turning its focus on boosting insurance enrollment to the more than 90 Fortune 500 companies in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, company...
