The cluster of claims made an insurance company suspicious. Not only was there an unusual number of claims filed on life insurance policies traced to a single New York City life insurance agent, but also an uncommon number of those …
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has warned that America’s largest city needs to be prepared for a hurricane powerful enough to cause serious flooding in lower Manhattan and elsewhere. “It’s always a little odd being in New York and talking …
A Harlem vagrant ravaged by a lifetime of hard drinking testified this week that he was clueless about a purported plot by an insurance agent to take out more than $500,000 in fraudulent policies on his life before trying to …
Ronald Mallay doesn’t deny that in the 1990s he tried to make money by investing in life insurance policies taken out on fellow Guyanese immigrants in Queens, some of them his relatives. His lawyer, Kenneth Kaplan, claims the practice of …
When Basdeo Somaipersaud turned up dead in his favorite park in New York City in 1998, his family assumed he must have cracked his head during one of his drinking binges. Then the autopsy came back with a curious result: …
Two aging fireboats that helped fight the inferno caused by the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center will be replaced by gleaming vessels that are larger and far more powerful, New York City fire officials said. …
It has long been one of New York City’s nightmares: Terrorists target tunnels, flooding commuter lifelines and possibly some of the city itself. The grim scenario is getting renewed scrutiny after a new report suggested that PATH commuter rail tunnels …
