Latest New York Headlines
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Schumer Says Farm Bill Will Help New York Dairy Farmers
Dec 14 2018 // Sen. Chuck Schumer says the sweeping farm bill approved by Congress will help New York dairy farmers. The Senate’s Democratic leader says the bill invests $100 million in the federal dairy insurance program to help...
New York Lawmakers Pledge to Change Laws That Enable Predatory Lending
Dec 13 2018 // New York legislators are pledging to change laws that have allowed predatory lenders to use the state court system to seize the assets of thousands of small businesses across the country. Brad Hoylman, incoming chairman of...
New York’s SterlingRisk Insurance Hires DelPrete
Dec 11 2018 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based, independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Geraldine DelPrete as director of programs and senior vice president. DelPrete brings more than 25 years of experience to...
New York Said to Open Investigation into Potential Small-Business Lending Abuse
Dec 7 2018 // New York’s attorney general has opened an investigation into potential abuses by finance firms that offer quick money to small businesses nationwide, according to a person familiar with the probe. Attorney General...
Manhattan Man Convicted in Two Identity Theft Schemes
Dec 7 2018 // A Manhattan man has been convicted of engaging in two separate identity theft schemes between 2013 and 2014 and has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half to 15 years in state prison. An investigation by New York Attorney...
Man Sentenced for New York Vacation Rental Home Scam
Dec 7 2018 // An upstate New York man has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay back more than $100,000 he bilked out of people in a vacation home rental scam. Federal prosecutors say 58-year-old Henry Dean III, of...
Woman Who Says She Was Taped in New York Hotel Shower Sues for $100M
Dec 6 2018 // A woman who claims hidden-camera footage of her in a hotel shower was posted on a dozen pornographic web sites by someone who tried to extort her filed a $100 million lawsuit. The Chicago resident, identified only as Jane...
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Dec 3 2018 // Rogers & Gray Insurance, a Kingston, Mass.-based independent insurance agency, has hired Ryan Brown to its management team. Brown joins the agency from Safeco, a Liberty Mutual Company, where he was the senior...
N.Y. Man Charged With More Than $15K in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 3 2018 // A New York man has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system by claiming he was out of work due to an injury while continuing to work at his family business. Jeffrey Smalt of Bath,...
Big I New York Appoints Hobson as Director of Government Relations
Nov 27 2018 // Big I New York, the state’s oldest insurance producer trade organization, has appointed Scott W. Hobson as its director of government relations. In this role, Hobson is responsible for developing and advancing Big I...
Lawsuit Filed Against Operators of Limo in Fatal New York Crash
Nov 26 2018 // The operators of a limousine that crashed and killed 20 people in upstate New York were grossly negligent in putting the “dangerous and defective” vehicle on the road, according to a lawsuit filed by one of the...
Frenkel & Company Hires Power as a Principal in New York
Nov 26 2018 // Frenkel & Company – an EPIC Company has hired risk management and insurance professional Michael Power as a principal. Power will be based in Frenkel’s New York, N.Y., office and report to Phil Remig, the...
Frenkel & Company Hires Nili to Join New York Operations
Nov 20 2018 // Frenkel & Company – an EPIC Company has hired risk management and insurance professional Tandis Nili to join its operations in New York as senior vice president and leader of the Global Services Division. Nili is...
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Nov 19 2018 // Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) has hired Adam Winfree as the company’s Virginia marketing representative. Winfree joins the company as a 13-year veteran of the insurance industry, having worked previously as...
The Hits Keep Coming: More Transitional Cybersecurity Requirements in New York
Nov 19 2018 // It has been more than a year and a half since the New York Department of Financial Services’ cybersecurity regulations (cyber rules) came into effect, and yet another compliance deadline has passed. Broadly,...
New York Clinic Owner, Doctor, Attorney Arrested for Insurance Fraud Scheme
Nov 16 2018 // The owner, doctor and attorney involved with a medical clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been charged for their alleged participation in a $1 million auto insurance fraud scheme. New York State Attorney General Barbara D....
New York’s SterlingRisk Insurance Hires Jones as Vice President
Nov 14 2018 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Kenneth J. Jones as vice president. Jones brings more than 30 years of experience to SterlingRisk, meeting the needs of...
New York Man Charged With More Than $15K in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 13 2018 // A New York man has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system by claiming he was out of work due to an injury while continuing to work at his family business. Jeffrey Smalt of Bath,...
State Help Available for Upstate New York Areas Hit by August Storms
Nov 8 2018 // Residents in New York’s Southern Tier and Finger Lakes region who were impacted by damaging storms and floods in August are eligible for financial help. Officials announced Friday that $13 million is available in the...
Probe Seeks Cause of Helicopter Crash into Power Lines in New York
Nov 7 2018 // Federal transportation safety investigators will try to determine what caused a helicopter to crash into power lines during an inspection flight in northern New York, killing two people on board and injuring two...
