Two men who authorities say took advantage of people struggling with opioid addiction by signing them up for false insurance policies and sending them to dubious out-of-state treatment facilities have been indicted on multiple charges, the Massachusetts attorney general’s office …
A state Senate committee in Pennsylvania approved legislation to use federal coronavirus relief aid to revive a long-running program designed to help clean up waterways, fix up parks and preserve open space. The bill, approved 10-1, would inject the Growing …
President Joe Biden has signed a disaster declaration for damage caused by storms that hit the southern Vermont counties of Windham and Bennington at the end of July, the office of Vermont Governor Phil Scott said Wednesday. The presidential declaration …
Three more dancers have come forward to allege that an instructor and his wife, a former star with the Boston Ballet, sexually abused them, according to an expanded lawsuit. Five dancers now say dance instructor Mitchell Taylor Button and his …
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Margaret Garnett announced the indictment of Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, Nursery, & Florist (DBLNF) and D.B. Demolition Inc., as well as their respective presidents Nicholas …
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais issued a department notice on September 24 announcing a 30 day period of public comment on the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) voluntary loss cost and assigned risk rate filing. NCCI is proposing …
A jury has awarded $1.3 million to a Rhode Island woman who underwent gallstone surgery that resulted in months of complications because of negligence from Kent Hospital. The jury reached a verdict Thursday, finding both Dr. Brian Reed and Kent …
Risk Strategies Hires Honig as Compliance Director for Employee Benefits Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, hired Erica Honig as the compliance director for its employee benefits division. In this new role, Honig will provide …
New York City is planning to hire a private weather forecaster, install more drainage features and issue earlier and more aggressive warnings to residents under a new plan to respond to heavy rainfall like the deadly deluge Hurricane Ida dropped …
Sotheby’s must face a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing the auction house of fraudulently helping a wealthy art collector dodge millions of dollars of sales taxes, a state judge has ruled. The case concerned purchases by a Sotheby’s …
