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Explosion at New York Manufacturing Plant Injures Two Workers
Aug 8 2018 // Officials say two workers have suffered serious injuries in an explosion at a Rochester, N.Y., manufacturing plant. City fire officials say emergency crews responded around 12:20 p.m. Monday to a report of a person on fire...
CorPro Underwriting Managers Hires Giuliano as a Senior Underwriter in New York
Aug 8 2018 // CorPro Underwriting Managers has hired Michael Giuliano as a senior underwriter based in New York, N.Y. He specializes in private company and not-for-profit directors and officers (D&O), employment practices liability...
Passengers Say New York City Bus Driver Was Operating Erratically
Aug 7 2018 // A New York City bus driver who passengers say was driving erratically before he hit something is facing charges including driving while intoxicated. Authorities say the 24-year-old driver had nine passengers on the bus...
New York Seeks Dismissal of NRA Suit Claiming ‘Blacklisting’
Aug 6 2018 // The National Rifle Association is suffering grave financial harm that threatens its ability to pursue its advocacy mission because of a “blacklisting” campaign by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York regulators, the...
Business Council Touts Workers’ Comp Savings in New York
Aug 6 2018 // The Business Council of New York State Inc. has touted the newly approved 11.7 percent reduction in loss cost rates, which are the basis for setting workers’ compensation premiums for 2019, as being significant...
New York Appoints Group to Draft Legislation for Adult-Use Marijuana Program
Aug 3 2018 // New York has appointed a working group to draft legislation to legalize and regulate the adult use of marijuana in the state. The move comes soon after a N.Y. Department of Health study commissioned by New York Governor...
RSG Completes Acquisition of Certain Assets of New York’s ARC Specialty Brokerage
Aug 2 2018 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) has completed its acquisition of certain assets of ARC Specialty Brokerage LLC, the property and casualty division of ARC Excess & Surplus LLC, a wholesale insurance brokerage based in...
Boy’s Death During Boating Safety Lesson in New York Results in New Law
Jul 31 2018 // A Long Island county where a 12-year-old boy died during a boating safety lesson now has a new law aimed at preventing such tragedies from happening again. Newsday reports that Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed...
RSG to Acquire Certain Assets of New York’s ARC Specialty Brokerage
Jul 30 2018 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) and ARC Excess & Surplus LLC (ARC) have entered into a definitive agreement in which RSG will acquire certain assets of ARC Specialty Brokerage LLC, the P&C Division of ARC, a...
City Council Aims to Make New York First U.S. City to Cap Uber, Others
Jul 30 2018 // New York City is moving toward becoming the first major U.S. municipality to cap ride-sharing services, sparking a tsunami of protest on Friday from Uber and others, which warned that those living in far-flung...
Brightway Insurance Opens Second Store in New York
Jul 27 2018 // Brightway Insurance, a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of franchised independent stores, has opened its second store in New York. Julio Ramirez opened Brightway, The Ramirez Agency...
Construction Company Indicted for Wage Theft, Insurance Fraud in New York
Jul 26 2018 // CRV Precast Construction LLC (CRV) and six of its employees have been indicted for misclassifying workers as lesser-skilled, underpaying them and falsifying information about payroll and employees, including a worker who...
Burns & Wilcox Hires Cunningham to New York City Office
Jul 25 2018 // Burns & Wilcox, a wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager, has hired Jeffrey R. Cunningham to its New York City office as a senior broker in its Environmental Insurance practice. Cunningham previously...
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants Hires D’Agostino in New York City
Jul 24 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, a retail property and casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has announced that Lou D’Agostino and his Iron Cove Partners team have joined...
GEICO Board of Directors Promotes Connor to VP of New York, New Jersey Offices
Jul 23 2018 // The GEICO Board of Directors has promoted Jeremy Connor to vice president of the company’s regional office in Buffalo, N.Y., and its claims office in Marlton, N.J. Connor had served as assistant vice president of...
New York’s Global Warming Suit Against Oil Companies Tossed
Jul 20 2018 // A U.S. judge threw out New York’s lawsuit seeking to hold five of the world’s biggest oil companies financially responsible for contributing to climate change. U.S. District Judge John Keenan dismissed the...
Cook Maran & Associates Acquires New York’s Joseph P. Price Agency
Jul 19 2018 // Cook Maran & Associates, a New York and New Jersey insurance broker and the New York metropolitan area platform for Prime Risk Partners (PRP), has acquired Joseph P. Price Agency (Price). Price is a Long Island,...
Business Council Touts Workers’ Comp Savings in New York
Jul 17 2018 // The Business Council of New York State Inc. has touted the newly approved 11.7 percent reduction in loss cost rates, which are the basis for setting workers’ compensation premiums for 2019, as being significant...
KBW Hires Sarkar to Its Insurance Investment Banking Group in New York
Jul 17 2018 // Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. (KBW), a full-service, boutique investment bank and broker-dealer that specializes in the financial services sector and a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp., has hired Rajib...
Report from New York Health Officials Calls for Pot Legalization
Jul 16 2018 // Proposals to permit recreational marijuana use in New York state took a big step forward Friday when state health officials issued a long-awaited report concluding that the benefits of legalization outweigh the risks. The...
