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Family Behind Purdue Pharma Facing Second Suit Over Role in Opioid Crisis
Mar 21 2019 // The billionaire family that owns opioid-maker Purdue Pharma LP has been accused by local governments in a new lawsuit of causing the nationwide public-health crisis involving pain-killing medicines that has left hundreds...
Judge Grants NRA Bid to Question N.Y. Ex-Official Over Insurance Inquiry
Mar 21 2019 // The National Rifle Association won permission from a judge to question a former New York regulatory official under oath in a lawsuit claiming the state illegally discouraged banks and insurers from doing business with the...
Nevada Mulling ‘Textalyzer’ Tech That Scans Cellphones After Crashes
Mar 18 2019 // Most states ban texting behind the wheel, but a legislative proposal could make Nevada one of the first states to allow police to use a contentious technology to find out if a person was using a cellphone during a car...
In Fatberg Fight, New York Goes to War Against Flushable Wipes
Mar 18 2019 // One of humanity’s most private and pervasive hygiene habits is changing. And Sal Scapelito’s job is a sign that the trend may not be sustainable. Every two minutes, the 31-year-old sewage treatment worker...
People
Mar 18 2019 // National Nashville-based auto insurer The General has appointed veteran insurance executive Tony DeSantis to president and CEO, joining Chief Operating Officer Steve Tjugum as the company’s top leaders. Elicia Azali...
NYC Mayor Proposes $10B Plan to Flood-Proof Manhattan as Climate Risk Grows
Mar 15 2019 // New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a $10 billion plan to push out the lower Manhattan coastline as much as 500 feet, or two city blocks, to protect from flooding that’s expected to become more frequent as global...
Risk Strategies Acquires New York City’s Krauter & Company
Mar 14 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Krauter & Company LLC, a specialty firm focused on the risk and insurance needs of private equity firms and their...
Lawyers Blame Act of God, Lack of Seatbelts for New York Limo Crash
Mar 7 2019 // Lawyers for the operators of a limousine that crashed and killed 20 people in upstate New York say the deaths could have been caused by an act of God or the passengers’ failure to wear seat belts. The Times Union...
The Time Donald Trump Filed Huge Insurance Claim: O’Brien
Mar 7 2019 // A series of hurricanes tore through Florida in 2005, and Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s business and residence in Palm Beach, was apparently very beaten up because Trump collected about $18.3 million in...
EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants Hires Sames in New York
Mar 6 2019 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property, casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has hired John Sames to its Northeast region leadership team as director of operations and...
New York Regulator Subpoenas Insurance Broker About Trump Organization
Mar 5 2019 // New York’s insurance regulator issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization’s primary insurance broker, a person familiar with the matter said. It came just days after President Donald Trump’s former...
Connecticut’s Great Depression May Soon Be Over: Fox
Mar 5 2019 // Big news! Going by third-quarter state gross domestic product data that were just released, Connecticut’s economy is on track to grow more than 2 percent in 2018! That’s … not much. But it’s better...
Industry Eyes Renewal of U.S. Terror Reinsurance and Alternatives Should Congress Fail
Mar 5 2019 // U.S. insurers are pushing for the extension of a federal terrorism risk insurance program, hoping to fend off a possible gap that would leave their clients scrambling for alternate coverage. The program, which expires at...
Cuomo Drops Proposal to Ban All Modified Stretch Limos in New York
Feb 27 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is dropping a proposal to ban all modified stretch limousines, an idea prompted by last fall’s crash that killed 20 people. The Times Union of Albany reports that the provision was...
More Than 65K Power Outages Reported in Upstate New York
Feb 26 2019 // More than 65,000 power outages have been reported in upstate New York after high winds rattled the region. Syracuse.com says 5,000 utility workers have been mobilized upstate. WGRZ in Buffalo said lake-effect snow combined...
New York Governor Orders Investigation Into Facebook’s Access to User Data
Feb 25 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered two state agencies to investigate a media report that Facebook Inc may be accessing far more personal information than previously known from smartphone users, including...
Dropped Thermos May Have Been Behind Deadly 2017 New York Bus Crash
Feb 22 2019 // A dropped thermos wedged between the brake and accelerator pedals of a charter bus may have been behind a 2017 crash in Flushing, New York, that killed three people, U.S. transportation investigators said Thursday. The...
Supreme Court Justice Thomas Calls for Overturning Landmark Libel Case
Feb 20 2019 // Justice Clarence Thomas called for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan ruling, which protects news organizations from most libel suits when they write about public...
Business Moves
Feb 18 2019 // National AmWINS, The Flood Agency Specialty insurance broker AmWINS Group has agreed to acquire The Flood Insurance Agency, a Florida-based managing general agency that specializes in private market flood insurance. The...
N.Y. Construction Worker Injured by Steel Plate
Feb 15 2019 // Police in Long Island, N.Y., say a construction worker has his legs severed below the knee when a steel plate knocked him into a hole and landed on him. Officials say the unidentified 39-year-old man was working to install...
