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New York Will Require Employers to Disclose Monitoring to New Hires
Jan 27 2022 // Employers in New York must disclose electronic monitoring, such as internet access and videoconferencing, to new hires under a new law taking effect in May, as workers contend with an employment landscape that’s...
Harris Confirmed as New York Financial Services Chief
Jan 26 2022 // The New York State Senate has voted to confirm Adrienne A. Harris as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). Harris, a former economic advisor to President Barack Obama, was nominated...
Sarah Palin’s Positive COVID Test Delays New York Times Defamation Trial
Jan 24 2022 // Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, has tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing a U.S. judge on Monday to delay her defamation trial against The New York...
Sarah Palin’s Defamation Trial Against New York Times Scheduled to Start
Jan 24 2022 // Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, has spent 4-1/2 years battling the New York Times over an editorial she said falsely linked her to a deadly Arizona mass shooting that...
Relation Insurance Acquires Ginsberg Agency in New York
Jan 21 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, a national insurance agency based in California, has acquired the assets of New York-based Ginsberg Agency, the company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ginsberg...
New York Contractor Underreported Payroll by 89 Workers, DA Says
Jan 20 2022 // A Congers, New York, contractor has been arrested after he was indicted on insurance fraud charges for allegedly underreporting his payroll by 89 workers. Anthony Frascone, 51, owner of Alpha-Omega, told his workers’...
Former New York Post Editor Alleges Harassment, Retaliation
Jan 20 2022 // A New York Post editor whose departure was announced Tuesday alleged she was fired two months after revealing to an executive that former editor Col Allan had sexually harassed her. The Post said any suggestion of...
Alera Group Acquires New York-Based International Broker Foa & Son
Jan 19 2022 // Alera Group reports it has acquired Foa & Son, an international insurance broker based in New York City. Terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1861, Foa & Son maintains commercial practice groups in multinational...
Doctors, Police Officer Among 13 Indicted in Alleged $100M Auto Insurance Scam
Jan 19 2022 // Federal prosecutors have charged 13 people—including a New York City police officer, an attorney and four physicians—in two indictments that allege they schemed to defraud auto insurers out of $100 million by bribing...
New York Reconsiders Statute of Limitations for Adult Sexual Abuse Survivors
Jan 19 2022 // New Yorkers who were sexually abused as adults could sue abusers in civil court under a bill that supporters are again urging the state to pass. The Adult Survivors Act would provide a one-year litigation window for those...
Safety Doors Failed in New York City High-Rise Apartment Fire That Killed 17
Jan 13 2022 // Investigators sought answers Monday for why safety doors failed to close when fire broke out in a New York high-rise, allowing thick smoke to rise through the tower and kill 17 people, including eight children, in the...
Low-Income Residents Face Higher Risk of Deadly Fires Like New York Apartment Blaze
Jan 13 2022 // The deadly blaze in a Bronx apartment building was the second such tragedy at low-income housing in the U.S. this month, highlighting the stubborn link between poverty and deaths from residential fires. “It’s...
Investigations Begin Into Deadly New York City Apartment Building Fire
Jan 11 2022 // Doctors raced Monday to save survivors of New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades as authorities began investigating how thick smoke could billow through the high-rise, trapping many families inside and...
New York City Sued by Business Over Workplace Vaccine Rule
Jan 10 2022 // A lawsuit has been filed in federal court challenging New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace, asserting that the city’s...
New York AG Finds 1 Million Customer Credentials Compromised at Online Retailers
Jan 6 2022 // More than 1 million customers’ passwords at 17 major retailers have been compromised in what’s known as “credential stuffing” attacks, New York Attorney General Letitia James said, warning...
New York Governor Appoints Three to Court That Hears Comp Appeals
Jan 5 2022 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has appointed three judges to fill vacancies on the state’s intermediate appellate court that hears workers’ compensation cases. “With diverse experience and background, I am...
New York Jury Finds Drugmaker Teva Liable for Fueling Opioid Crisis
Jan 3 2022 // Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. fueled opioid addiction in New York state, a jury found last Thursday, a setback for a company still facing thousands of other opioid-related lawsuits around the United States. The...
New York Man Charged with Insurance Fraud in Stolen Tractor Scheme
Dec 27 2021 // The New York State Police in Brunswick arrested 53-year-old Michael LePage of Glens Falls, New York, on December 17, 2021, for insurance fraud in the fourth degree, a class E felony, and making a false written statement, a...
The Hilb Group Acquires Charles Newman Co., Builds on New York Presence
Dec 20 2021 // The Hilb Group acquired Charles Newman Co. Insurance and Employee Benefits to its portfolio, adding to The Hilb Group’s growing presence in the New York metropolitan area. The transaction became effective December 1,...
New York Contractor Faces $244K in Penalties for Exposing Workers to Fall Risks
Dec 20 2021 // Three federal safety inspections at a Suffern, New York, condominium complex confirmed a Rockland County roofing contractor repeatedly exposed residential roof workers to potentially deadly falls from heights of 18 to 20...
