East News for February 2024
- Insurance Agency Denies Liability for Misrepresentations Related to Shooting
- Embedded Business Insurance Agency Coverdash Raises $13.5 Million
- Disney Faces Wrongful Death Claim Over Pub Food ‘Guaranteed’ as Allergen Free
- Jury Must Decide If Virginia Sheriff’s Killing of Dog Was Constitutional
- Boston Property Manager Sued For Revoking Job Offer for Woman With Breast Cancer
- Multiple Causes Cited in Deaths of 14 Horses at Saratoga. Could Rainfall Be One?
- People Moves: Markel’s Colosimo Joins CRC; Risk Strategies Consulting Names Piltch
- Six Charged in Alleged $1M Auto Insurance Claims Scheme in Massachusetts
- Employee Wins Workers’ Compensation Under Exception to ‘Coming-and-Going’ Bar
- Investigators Fault Pittsburgh for Poor Inspection, Maintenance of Bridge That Collapsed
- Lithium Ion Battery Caused Fatal Fire in Harlem Apartment Building, Say Officials
- Jury Finds Former NRA Chief LaPierre Misspent Gun Group’s Funds, Owes $4.4M
- Trump Asks Judge to Suspend $83M Defamation Verdict, Arguing It Won’t Stand
- ‘Ghost Gun’ Sellers Must Face New York Lawsuit Seeking to Ban Them
- AM Best Upgrades Credit Ratings of United Frontier Mutual, New Member of Allegany
- Arbella Insurance Teams Up With Soccer’s New England Revolution
- OSHA Seeks $306K Fine From Massachusetts Roofer for Alleged Fall Safety Violations
- Bumble Faces Penalty for Failing to Disclose If Its Dating App Suitors Include Criminals
- Fire Mitigation Industry Terror: NYC Gang Member Convicted of Extortion, Racketeering
- Vermont Seeks Federal Disaster Declaration for December Flooding
- ANALYSIS: Trump’s Appeal of Civil Fraud Verdict May Hinge on ‘No Victims’ Defense
- Target, Hoverboard Maker Agree to $38.5M Settlement Over Fire That Killed 2 Girls
- King Insurance Acquires New Jersey’s Mehta Agency
- New York State’s Commission on Ethics Facing Judicial Test
- Woman Drops Lawsuit Alleging Billionaire Financier Raped Her
- Long-Serving Delaware Chancery Court Judge to Retire at Year’s End
- Supreme Court Leaves Intact Elite School’s Diversity Policy
- New Jersey School District Settles Sex Abuse Lawsuit Involving Teacher for $6 Million
- Markets/Coverages: Connecticut Opens Door to Real Estate Insurer Honeycomb
- Uber Sues Drivers’ Insurer Alleging Its Claims Practices Have Fueled Tort Litigation
- Northeast Warned to Expect More Floods Like This Winter’s
- Leaking Underground Propane Tank Found Before Deadly Virginia House Explosion
- Trump Avoids ‘Corporate Death Penalty’ in Civil Fraud Case, But Business Still Slammed
- Maryland Issues Insurance Scam Warning for Businesses
- New Bill Would Still Permit Smoking in Atlantic City Casinos But With More Restrictions
- Pennsylvania’s State Courts Restore Website Services Disrupted by Cyber Attack
- People Moves: Swanick and Hayes Join Centri; Haan Heads World Insurance HR; Carson Joins Risk Strategies
- New York’s High Court Backs Insurer’s Denial of COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim
- New York City Sues Social Media Platforms Over Teen Mental-Health Concern
- Bankruptcy Judge Permits Insurance Payments for Bed Bath & Beyond Executives
- People Moves: Kestenbaum to Manage New Burns & Wilcox Boston Office; ShoreOne Names Voss Claims Officer
- Vermont’s Consumer Protection Suit Against Energy Firms Returned to State Court
- How Worker Won Workers’ Compensation for Mental Health Care After Car Crash Injury
- College Board to Pay Penalty and Stop Monetizing New York Students’ Data
- Columbia University Sued by Jewish Student Over Campus Antisemitism
- New York Attorney General Triples Size of Crypto Fraud Lawsuit to $3 Billion
- Citing Immunity Law, Judge Tosses Body Parts Theft Claims Against Harvard
- OSHA Seeks $1M Penalty for New Jersey Contractor Added to ‘Severe Violator’ List
- Bucks County Refused to Pay Ransom to Restore Systems After Cyberattack
- Driver Gets 25 Years for Deaths in ‘Pop-Up’ Car Rally
- Teacher Who Held Mock Slave Auction in 4th Grade Class Settles Lawsuit for $75K
- People Moves: Starkweather & Shepley Names Chairman, CEO
- Not Interviewing, Hiring Deaf Job Applicant Cost Distributor $1.6 Million
- 10 Cars of Cargo Train Carrying Cooking Oil, Plastic Pellets Derail; 2 Land in Hoosic River
- Labor Official Rules Dartmouth College Basketball Players Are School Employees
- Judge Tosses Suit by Estate of Employee Killed in Crash After Mandatory Wine Tasting
- Maine Gov. Mills Nominates Consultant Carey to Be Superintendent of Insurance
- Court Orders Sports Bar, Owner to Pay $359K for Retaliating Against Employees
- Construction Worker Killed When Foundation of House Being Waterproofed Collapses
- Virginia Doctor Who Prescribed More Than 500K Doses of Opioids Granted New Trial
- Court Nixes ‘Wrongful Life’ Framing in Upholding $38M Fertility Malpractice Award
- Johnson & Johnson Worker’s Lawsuit Alleges Company Overpaid for Drugs
- New York Proposes Pharmacy Benefit Manager Regulations
- Trump Civil Fraud Case Judge to Probe Potential Perjury by Ex-CFO
- McDonald’s Franchisee Agrees to Pay $4.4M Over Manager’s Sexual Assault of Teen
- Pennsylvania Courts’ Cyber Battle With an ‘Unknown Opponent’ Enters Third Day
- People Moves: Schaninger Joins Arthur Hall; Virginia Reappoints WC Commissioner Marshall
- Pennsylvania State Courts Dealing With Cyberattack
- Probe of Connecticut State Police Traffic Stops Shows No Intentional Racial Profiling
- New Jersey Denies Bulkhead for Shore Town With Wrecked Sand Dunes
- Pennsylvania’s 7.8% Workers’ Compensation Cut Takes Effect in April
- New England Patriots Sued Over Video Viewing App’s Alleged Privacy Violations
- AM Best Revises Outlooks to Negative for Amica Mutual
- Medical Biller Who Posed as Patients, NBA Player Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
- Maine Approved for Federal Disaster Aid for December Storm Damage
- 2 Pennsylvania Homeowners Urged to Evacuate Due to Landslide
- Judge Rejects Virginia School System’s Request to Toss Student’s Sex Assault Lawsuit
- Pennsylvania High Court Backs ‘Regular Use’ Exclusion for Underinsured Motorist Cover
- Maine Gov. Proposes Gun Safety, Mental Health Measures After Deadly Mass Shooting
- Pennsylvania Counties Still Restoring Systems After Cyber Incidents
- Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Ericson Advisors of Connecticut
- New York Hotel’s Stand-Up Policy Didn’t Sit Well With Front Desk Clerk
- AI-Driven Insurance Platform Indemn Raises $1.9 Million
- U.S. Steel Agrees to Spend Millions to Settle Suit Over Pollution Violations After 2018 Fire
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