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NTSB to Investigate After Train Strikes, Kills Worker in New York City
Jun 12 2017 // Authorities say a Long Island Rail Road worker has been struck and killed by a train. The National Transportation Safety Board tweeted Saturday that it was sending a team to investigate the death. The worker was hit by a...
AmTrust Sells Shares in National General Holdings for $212 Million
Jun 9 2017 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. said it has agreed to sell shares it owns in National General Holdings Corp. for approximately $211.7 million. AmTrust has agreed to sell 10,586,000 common shares of NGHC at a price of...
New York’s Berkley Alliance Managers Hires Andersen
Jun 9 2017 // Berkley Alliance Managers, an Albany, N.Y.-based Berkley Company, has named Anthony Andersen as senior vice president and professional liability claims manager. In this role, he will be responsible for providing managerial...
Hub International Limited Acquires New York’s Brady Insurance Planning
Jun 8 2017 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of Brady Insurance Planning (Brady). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in East Norwich, N.Y., Brady is an employee...
New York’s Crystal & Company Names Cooke Director of Employee Benefits Unit
Jun 8 2017 // Crystal & Company, a New York-headquartered strategic risk and insurance advisor, has hired Mary Cooke as director for its Employee Benefits Services unit. In her new role, Cooke works out of the firm’s national...
Cuomo Takes Steps to Keep New York Insurers in Obamacare
Jun 7 2017 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced steps on Monday to encourage insurers to keep selling health plans in the state’s Obamacare exchange, as the companies withdraw from other markets amid uncertainty surrounding...
New York Says Exxon’s Climate Change Proxy Costs May Be a `Sham’
Jun 6 2017 // New York’s top cop told a judge that an investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.’s public statements about climate change uncovered “significant evidence” the oil giant may have misled investors. In a...
Declarations
Jun 5 2017 // No Place to Go “When your house comes apart like that, there’s no place to go. I thought this is it.” — Mark Tyson, a resident of the Prairie Lake Estate Mobile Park near Chetek, Wis., which was...
Autonomous Vehicle Testing to Begin in New York State
Jun 5 2017 // New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that New York is now accepting applications from companies interested in testing or demonstrating autonomous vehicles on public roads. Included in the fiscal year 2018...
People – East
Jun 5 2017 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed Wayne T....
New York’s Lawley Taps Carbajal, DeStefano to Lead Life Science Insurance Practice
Jun 2 2017 // Lawley, an independent insurance broker headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., has launched its life science insurance practice, led by life science veterans Jose Carbajal and William DeStefano. The team will be based out of...
Growing Number of Municipal Suits Over Opioids Face Uphill Battle
Jun 2 2017 // A growing number of U.S. states, counties and cities are filing lawsuits accusing drug companies of deceptively marketing opioid painkillers to downplay their addictiveness, but some lawyers say the industry’s highly...
The Excess Line Association of New York Hires TIAA’s Greene
Jun 1 2017 // The Excess Line Association of New York (ELANY) has added Howard W. Greene to ELANY’s senior management team as director of strategic initiatives. Greene, an industry veteran, comes to ELANY from TIAA, where he spent...
New York: $7M for Homeowners Hit by Lake Ontario Flooding
May 31 2017 // New York state is making $7 million available to help homeowners recover from flooding along the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River shorelines. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the funding Monday. Homeowners will be able to...
States Move to Ban Asking Job Applicants About Past Salary
May 26 2017 // An awkward job interview question — how much did you make at your last job? — is getting banned in some parts of the country. Massachusetts, New York City and Philadelphia have passed laws that bar employers from...
Fire Guts New York Bar Favored by Author Jack Kerouac
May 25 2017 // A famous New York bar once frequented by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac has been gutted by a fire. Officials in the village of Northport on Long Island tell Newsday that the fire started around 7 a.m. Tuesday inside...
New York State Providing $10M for Lake Ontario Flooding Recovery
May 25 2017 // The state is making $10 million in funding available to New York municipalities dealing with flooding along the Lake Ontario shoreline. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the funds will support flood recovery efforts...
JLT Specialty USA Appoints Levitt as Executive Vice President in New York
May 23 2017 // JLT Specialty USA, a U.S. subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. (JLT), has appointed Gabe Levitt as executive vice president. Based in New York, Levitt will join JLT’s New York office and focus on servicing...
New York Construction Company Owner Indicted for Manslaughter
May 22 2017 // The owner of a Bedford-Stuyvesant construction company and his businesses have been indicted on manslaughter and other charges after a wall collapsed at an excavation site, killing one construction worker and injuring two...
New York Eyes ‘Textalyzer’ to Combat Distracted Driving
May 19 2017 // Ben Lieberman just wanted to find out what may have caused the head-on collision that killed his 19-year-old son, Evan, on a highway north of New York City. It took a lawsuit and six months in court to get the cellphone...
