Long Island Rail Road retirees who faked disability claims in order to get more lucrative pensions would avoid prosecution and be able to keep some benefits if they admit wrongdoing under a deal with the federal government, officials said Tuesday. …
Insurance regulators plan to start kicking crooked doctors out of New York’s no-fault program next month, calling them linchpins in fake-accident scams that cost insurers and ultimately policyholders hundreds of millions of dollars. Regulations are set to take effect June …
Insurers doing business in New York are now required to regularly search a government list of recent deaths to identify policyholders, then find and pay beneficiaries even when no claims are made. New York State Department of Financial Services says …
Dry conditions and high winds have triggered a number of brushfires in Northeastern states in past few days. Here is a roundup of stories from the Associated Press. New York New York State park rangers are battling a brush fire …
St. Louis, Mo.-based Safety National Casualty Corp. announced that James Riviezzo has joined the company as business development representative. He will be based in Safety National’s New York City regional office. With nearly 15 years of insurance and financial services …
New York State Department of Financial Services announced last week that 18 people in 13 New York counties have been arrested on workers’ comp fraud charges. These arrests were the result of joint investigations led by the Department of Financial …
This year’s hurricane season was an unusually costly and damaging one for New York State residents. And as the winter sets in, it will take several more months for people in areas ranging from Adirondack Mountains to Binghamton to get …
New York State has been shedding hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs since the financial crisis hit and its poverty rate remains high. Since 2008, the state lost over 250,000 middle- and high-wage jobs in sectors including finance, government and …
Storefronts in Schoharie, N.Y., a quaint village flooded out by Tropical Storm Irene, remain mostly empty and temporary trailers are plunked down alongside grand old homes. A bank branch is serving customers from a truck and a government building’s hand-painted …
New York City Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday a new traffic safety campaign called “Curbside Haiku.” The department is installing 216 signs featuring colorful artwork and haiku poems at high-crash locations near cultural institutions and schools citywide. “We’re putting …
