East News for July 2024
- Personal Lines Insurer Adirondack Exchange Withdrawing From New York
- People Moves: IMA Financial Adds Jacobs as Employee Benefits Executive in New York
- Permit to Rebuild in Flood Zone Allowed Even If Home Is Not Damaged
- Former Exec Keating Pleads Guilty to Scamming Allied World Insurance for $1.5M
- Court Must Decide If Child Victims Act Revives Old Workers’ Compensation Claims
- New York City Turns to AI-Powered Scanners to Keep Guns Out of Subway
- Vermont Again Dealing With Floodwaters
- Recall of Boar’s Head Deli Meats Follows Sample Test for Listeria at Maryland Store
- Utility Regulators Cite Natural Gas Company in Fatal 2021 Blast in Pennsylvania
- Rebuilding Rome: Upstate New York City Looking Forward After Destructive Tornado
- Gov. Moore Appoints Grant as Next Maryland Insurance Commissioner
- Bankrupt Steward Health to Close Two Massachusetts Hospitals
- Cannabis Firm Fights Insurer’s Denial of Business Income Loss Claim Following Fire
- Black Bear and Cub Destroy Car After Getting Trapped Inside
- Maine Schools Face Unique Challenges in Ridding Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’
- Niagara Falls Hopes Insurer Can Solve Mystery of Last Year’s Car Crash, Explosion
- GE Vernova Blames Manufacturing Flaw for Vineyard Wind Offshore Blade Failure
- William & Mary to Expand Climate Studies, Coastal Research with $100 Million Gift
- Painting Contractor Cited by OSHA After Worker Falls 80 Feet from Water Tower
- Freight Train Runs Off Tracks, Smashes Into Residential Garage in Niagara Falls
- Video: Whale Surfaces, Capsizes Fishing Boat Off New Hampshire Coast
- Maine Provides Waterfront Communities With $21 Million to Rebuild From Winter Storms
- Vermont Farmers Take Stock After Losing Crops to Flooding Two Years in a Row
- USAA Renter’s Insurance Policyholder Charged with Multiple Counts of Fraud
- People Moves: Donegal Promotes Landis; MEMIC Promotes Foote
- Pilot Dies in Crash After Releasing Skydivers Near Niagara Falls
- ‘Surface Waters’ on Roof Are Not ‘Flood’ Waters, Massachusetts High Court Rules
- State Street Agrees to $4.2 Million Pay Equity Fund
- Maryland Civil Lawsuit Alleges Harassment, Sex for Rent Scheme by Landlord
- Jury Faults New York Railroad — Mostly — for 2015 Crossing Crash That Killed 6
- Pennsylvania Shaved $98 Million Off Insurer Rate Requests in First Half of Year
- People Moves: Venbrook’s Student Insurance Adds MacDonald; Conner Strong & Buckelew Names Leung
- Former Postal Worker Sentenced to Probation for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
- New Jersey Group Eyes Insurance Surcharges, Oil Fees to Fund Resiliency Projects
- Rain Helps First Responders Contain Forest Fire at New Jersey Military Base
- Storms Pummel Large Swath From Ozarks and Plains to New York and New England
- Insurers Settle With Hotel in Case of Woman Videotaped in the Shower
- Pilot Dies After Small Plane Crashes Into River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
- Vermonters Urged to Report Flood Damage From Beryl to State for FEMA Determination
- Vineyard Wind Incident Is Not First Time a GE Vernova Wind Turbine Has Come Apart
- Forest Fire Erupts at Major Military Range in New Jersey
- Preservationists Rush to Save 150-Year-Old Lighthouse From Toppling Into Hudson River
- Religious Liberty Bars Priest’s Defamation Claim Against Bishop, Virginia Court Rules
- AM Best Revises A.I.M. Mutual Outlook to Positive, Affirms ‘Excellent’ Ratings
- Man Admits to Tracking Drivers, Programming Keys, Stealing and Reselling Vehicles
- Massachusetts Insurance Agency Deland, Gibson Acquires Atchue Agency
- Amazon Worker Injured Due to Repetitive Tasks Loses Workers’ Compensation Bid
- New Jersey’s US Senator Menendez Convicted of Bribery, Foreign-Agent Charges
- World Insurance Acquires Rhode Island’s Affiliated Insurance Managers
- Federal Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Manufacturer’s COVID-19 Claims
- People Moves: Virginia Regulatory Agency Names Damico Chief Administrative Officer
- 6 Charged With Bogus Overseas Claims for Gun Shot Wounds, Stabbings, Auto Accidents
- Two Fire Tanker Trucks Crash While Heading to Warehouse Blaze, Injuring 7 Firefighters
- New Hampshire Suspends License of Trucker Acquitted in Motorcycle Crash for 2 Years
- Hershey, Walgreens, Paqui Chip Maker Sued Over Teen’s Death After Online Challenge
- Vermonters Assess Beryl Damage, Begin Cleanup One Year After Major Flooding
- Hurricane Beryl’s Remnants Spawn Severe Storms in Midwest and Northeast
- Origin Specialty Acquires Agribusiness Managing General Underwriter AIMS
- Menendez’s Wife Hid Truth About Insurance Broker and Mercedes Benz, Lawyer Says
- Claims Made Commercial Lines Filings Now Subject to Scrutiny in Connecticut
- Insurers Entitled to Second Injury Fund Payments Even If No Longer Writing in State
- Markets/Coverages: Captive Insurer Targets New York Affordable Housing Market
- NRA’s Ex-CFO Agrees to Nonprofit Ban; Avoids Second Trial; Still Owes $2 Million
- NYU Settles Suit by Jewish Students Who Complained of Antisemitism
- Vermont Under Flood Watch on Anniversary of Last Year’s Severe Inundations
- New Jersey Democratic Power Broker Norcross Pleads Not Guilty to Racketeering
- Ford Pro Expands to Minnesota and Maryland
- Markets/Coverages: High-End Home Insurer Openly Enters Virginia
- Rikers Island Inmates Sue City Claiming They Were Trapped in Cells During Fire
- Maine Has No Medical Cannabis Testing Requirement. Health Advocates Urge Change.
- Progressive Settles New York Case Over Unpaid Sales Taxes on Total Loss Claims
- People Moves: IMA Group Adds High and Marentette; Kinsman Joins EagleView
- OSHA Alleges Roofer Put Own Kids at Risk on Job
- 15 Firefighters Injured Fighting Virginia Warehouse Fire
- Pennsylvania Task Force Urges Tax Breaks for Flood Damage, Mitigation and Insurance
- Fireworks Started New Jersey Forest Fire That Burned 4,000 Acres: Officials
- Hospital to Pay $300K to Resolve Drug Recordkeeping Allegations
- GEICO to Pay $6 Million to Settle Auto Adjusters’ Claims of Unpaid Overtime Hours
- Delaware Judge Allows Suit Over Police Fatal Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman
- Progressive to Pay $48M to New York Drivers Over Underpaid Total Loss Claims
- Trucking Firm Owner’s Scheme to Lower Insurance Costs Hits Dead End
- Court Rejects Broadway Producer’s Antitrust, Defamation Claims Against Union
- Government Contractors Guidehouse, Nan McKay Pay $11.3M for Cybersecurity Failure
- People Moves: Unison Risk Advisors Appoints Martinez; USI’s Engbert Joins Alliant
- Court Finds Virginia’s Punitive Damages Cap Applies Per-Plaintiff in Charlottesville Case
- Connecticut’s Monroe Insurance Merges With Smith Brothers
- Jury Awards $68.5M to Family of Worker Who Fell to Death at Philly Construction Site
- Marshall Elected Chair of Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission
- Delaware Law to Allow Big Investors Greater Sway Over US Corporate Boards
- Rhode Island Guarantees Domestic Workers Minimum Wage, Not Workers’ Compensation
- Biden Seeks $3.1 Billion to Rebuild Baltimore’s Key Bridge
- Relation Insurance Acquires York Insurance in Maryland
- Uber and Lyft Agree to Higher Wages, Work-Accident Insurance in Mass. Settlement
- Minivan Slams into Long Island Nail Salon, Killing 4, Injuring 9
- NYC Has the World’s Worst Traffic Congestion, Costing $9 Billion
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