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Cook Maran Acquires New York’s McDermott & Thomas Associates
Dec 1 2017 // Cook Maran & Associates (Cook Maran), a New York and New Jersey insurance broker and the New York metropolitan area platform for Prime Risk Partners (PRP), has acquired McDermott & Thomas Associates LLC (M&T),...
Cargill Accountant in New York Sentenced to Five Years for $3.1M Theft
Nov 30 2017 // An accountant who admitted to stealing $3.1 million from agribusiness giant Cargill, Inc. has been sentenced to five years in prison. Diane Backis was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Albany to mail fraud and filing a...
New York Logging Company Owner Sentenced to Prison for $83K Theft
Nov 30 2017 // The former owner of an upstate New York logging company who stole more than $80,000 in workers’ compensation benefits has been sentenced to up to three years in prison. Fifty-six-year-old David Sigl, of Auburn, N.Y.,...
Index Shows Where People Are Moving in Next Few Months
Nov 30 2017 // It’s possible to know where in the country more homebuyers will be moving over the next 30 to 90 days, thanks to what’s called a “pre-mover” index. It turns out that the U.S. markets with the...
100 Passengers Rescued from New York Ferry that Ran Aground Near Pier
Nov 29 2017 // More than 100 passengers have been rescued from a ferry that ran aground in New York’s East River. Police say it happened Monday evening just off a pier near the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan. The U.S....
Uber Paid Hackers to Hide Breach of 50 Million Customer, Driver Records
Nov 22 2017 // Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year. This week, the ride-hailing firm ousted its chief security...
A Family Environment at New York’s Seely & Durland Insurance
Nov 22 2017 // As a fourth generation, family-run organization, Warwick, N.Y.-based Seely & Durland Insurance understands the importance of creating a welcoming, family environment in the workplace, according to President Garrett...
Probe Underway Into Fatal Blasts, Fire at New York Cosmetics Factory
Nov 22 2017 // State and local authorities are trying to determine what triggered explosions and a fire at a cosmetics factory in New York’s Hudson Valley that killed one employee and injure nearly three dozen other workers and...
New York’s Mackoul & Associates is a Business About People
Nov 20 2017 // Working toward joining the Minor Leagues as an umpire to becoming the CEO of an insurance agency may seem like a big career change, but for Ed Mackoul, CEO and president of Mackoul & Associates Inc. in Island Park,...
Key Metrics of New York Workers’ Comp System Tracked in New WCRI Study
Nov 20 2017 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) released a tool for policymakers and system stakeholders to track New York workers’ compensation system performance. Originally established to monitor the system...
American Arbitration Association Opens Office in Upstate New York
Nov 17 2017 // The American Arbitration Association (AAA), a provider of conflict management and dispute resolution services, has opened a new office in Buffalo, N.Y., offering local arbitration support in a region that has experienced...
House Passes Tax Cut Package; Debate Moves to Senate
Nov 17 2017 // Congressional Republicans took an important step on Thursday toward the biggest U.S. tax-code overhaul since the 1980s as the House of Representatives approved a broad package of tax cuts sought by senior lawmakers and...
The Hilb Group Acquires Majority of Assets from New Jersey’s IOA Northeast NY Inc.
Nov 16 2017 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired the majority of the assets of IOA Northeast NY Inc. (IOANE), a division of IOA National Inc. The transaction became effective November 1, 2017. Located in Florham Park, N.J., IOANE...
Alliant Hires Tamburro as Vice President in New York
Nov 15 2017 // The Public Entity Group of Alliant has hired Anthony Tamburro as vice president. With more than 25 years of expertise in the Eastern United States, New York-based Tamburro will provide targeted risk management and...
Maine’s The MEMIC Group Hires Bialek to Support New York Market Growth
Nov 14 2017 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has hired Tammy Bialek as senior production underwriter to support growth within the New York market. Bialek has more than 25 years...
Hub International Northeast Hires Farrell and Reale
Nov 13 2017 // Hub International Northeast, a subsidiary of global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited, has hired Terrance Farrell as vice president of marketing and Vaughan Reale as vice president, responsible for employee...
How Cabbies Are Morphing Into Hybrid Taxi-Ridesharing Firms
Nov 8 2017 // Taxi companies across the U.S. waged a bitter, high-profile battle to keep Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. from bringing the sharing economy to cabs. They lost. Now the cabbies are adopting a...
Declarations
Nov 6 2017 // Fire Starter? “We still don’t know whether the fires caused pole or line damage or the poles caused the fires. They may never sort it out.” — Michael Picker, chairman of the California Public...
DFS Finalizes Regulation to Strengthen New York No-Fault Insurance Law
Nov 6 2017 // A new regulation issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) aims to curb costs and abuses of New York’s no-fault insurance law while leveling the playing field for New York insurers,...
New York Finalizes Regulations to Crack Down on Title Insurance Industry
Nov 6 2017 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has finalized two regulations to protect New Yorkers and crack down on unscrupulous practices in the title insurance industry. These regulations, which are the...
