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Update: NYC’s Largest Cab Insurer Ordered to Explore Sale After Losses

New York’s insurance regulator ordered American Transit Insurance Co. to immediately find capital and explore a sale in a damning report laying out its severe financial condition. The report laid out dozens of potential financial improprieties and accounting problems at …

New Hampshire Approves 5.6% Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Decrease for 2025

The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) reports that it has approved a workers’ compensation rate proposal that will reduce voluntary loss costs by 5.6% on average. The new lower rates will apply to voluntary market policies effective on or after …

Former NFL Player’s $43.5 Million Score in Medical Malpractice Case Upheld

A Philadelphia appeals court has upheld the $43.5 million award to former Philadelphia Eagles’ special teams player and captain Chris Maragos in his medical malpractice claim alleging that failed treatment of a knee injury ended his National Football League (NFL) …

After Losing in Court, Atlantic City Casino Workers Plan Ad Blitz for Smoking Ban

A group of Atlantic City casino workers seeking to ban smoking in the gambling halls will launch an advertising campaign featuring their children in response to a judge’s rejection of a lawsuit that would have ended smoking in the nine …

AGs Sue 3 Gun Shops Over Alleged ‘Straw Purchases’ of Weapons Trafficked Into DC

Three gun shops that sold nearly three dozen firearms to a man who trafficked the weapons in and around Washington, D.C. are facing a new lawsuit jointly filed Tuesday by attorneys general for Maryland and the nation’s capital. At least …

New York Regulator Orders Taxi Insurer to Weigh Sale After Losses

New York’s insurance regulator issued a damning report laying out the severely flawed financial condition of New York’s largest insurer of taxis and for-hire vehicles, as well as dozens of potential financial improprieties and accounting problems, warning that the consequences …

Relation Insurance Acquires Maryland’s Haney Company

Relation Insurance Services reports it has acquired the assets of The Haney Company Inc. of Silver Spring, Maryland. The transaction went into effect on May 1, 2024; terms were not disclosed. Haney offers employee benefits, commercial and personal insurance products. …

Officer Sentenced for Selling Crash Victim Information to Referral Service for Lawyers

A former patrol officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was recently sentenced in U.S. District Court to 20 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme in which he unlawfully provided non-public police information in exchange for …

Driver of Partially Automated Mustang Charged With DUI Homicide

A woman was intoxicated and using a partially automated driving system when she caused a March highway crash in Philadelphia that killed two people, authorities said as they announced homicide charges against the driver. State and federal investigators say the …

New York City’s Biggest Taxi Insurer Is Insolvent, Risking Transit Meltdown

In an unassuming white and blue office building in Freeport, a few miles into Nassau County, sits the headquarters of American Transit Insurance Co. The 52-year-old, family-owned firm is hardly a household name, but it’s vital to how New Yorkers …

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