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Gay Employees Sue New York City for Withholding IVF Coverage
May 14 2024 // A former New York City assistant district attorney and his husband are suing the city, claiming its health plan discriminates against gay male couples by denying them coverage of in vitro fertilization benefits. The city...
American Coastal to Sell Interboro to Forza Holdings, Completing Personal Lines Exit
May 13 2024 // American Coastal Insurance Corp. (ACIC) has agreed to sell its subsidiary Interboro Insurance Co., a New York domiciled insurer, to Forza Insurance Holdings, a Houston-based firm that funds insurance organizations serving...
New York City Jail Guard Suffers Burns When Body Camera Ignites
May 10 2024 // A captain in New York City’s Department of Correction suffered burns and smoke inhalation when her body camera suddenly caught fire, prompting the department to stop using the equipment pending an investigation. The...
New York’s Putting Some Green— $5 Million— Into Green Energy Insurance Innovations
May 10 2024 // New York State’s $5 million Insurance Innovation Prize is now open for applications. Supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the new program offers awards for the...
Construction Site Fatalities Down, Injuries Up in New York City
May 9 2024 // Building construction-related fatalities in the five boroughs of New York City are at the lowest number in nearly a decade, with seven deaths in 2023 as compared to a high of 14 in 2019. While fatalities are down, the...
Everton FC Buyer Accused of Fraud, Double-Pledging Assets in Lawsuit
May 7 2024 // Lenders to 777 Partners have accused it of fraud, claiming that the Miami-based investment firm borrowed against $350 million of assets that it didn’t own, didn’t exist or were already promised to someone...
New York Restricts Sale of Weight-Loss and Muscle-Building Supplements to Minors
May 6 2024 // It’s now illegal to sell weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors in New York, under a first-in-the-nation law that went into effect this week. Experts say loose federal regulation of dietary supplements...
Extreme Weather Is Driving More US Power Outages, Studies Show
May 3 2024 // For decades, residents of eastern Queens in New York City have complained that they’re more likely to lose power when extreme weather hits, even as lights in other parts of the city stay on. A new study that looks at...
An Origin Story: The History of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society
May 3 2024 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), as it exists today, does not have a written narrative or any acknowledgment on its website about how the organization was created, the timeline, the individuals...
Patriot Expands In New York, Acquiring Long Island’s Lupton & Luce
May 3 2024 // National insurance firm Patriot Growth Insurance Services has acquired Lupton & Luce, a property/casualty agency is based in Riverhead, New York. Established in 1939, the agency is led by Hallock Luce IV and deeply...
Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training
May 1 2024 // A group of newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing them of misusing reporters’ work to train their generative...
New York Court Officer Wins 9/11 Workers’ Compensation Benefits on Appeal
May 1 2024 // On the morning of September 11, 2001, Robert Liotta was at his job as a senior court officer at 100 Centre Street in New York City when not far away terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Right away, he began...
People Moves: Folk Joins Alliant; Law Firm Clyde & Co. Adds Maroney
Apr 25 2024 // Timothy Folk Timothy Folk has joined Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, as executive vice president, Alliant Specialty, in the firm’s agribusiness industry vertical. Folk focuses on food...
Chubb Wins Latest Battle With New York Diocese in Bid to Avoid Sex Abuse Claims
Apr 24 2024 // A New York state appeals court has reinstated Chubb insurance companies’ bid for judgments declaring that they are not obligated to cover thousands of sex abuse lawsuits brought against the Archdiocese of New York...
New York AG, Trump Attorneys Agree to Changes in $175M Bond in Civil Fraud Case
Apr 23 2024 // Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and the New York attorney general on Monday agreed to changes in the terms of the $175 million surety bond Trump secured with Knight Specialty Insurance Co. (KSIC). Attorney...
Why New York’s Attorney General Objects to Trump’s Bond Insurer
Apr 22 2024 // New York’s attorney general has urged the state judge overseeing the state’s civil fraud case against Donald Trump to reject the former president’s $175 million appeal bond. Attorney General Letitia James...
Cable Company Worker Electrocuted While Working on Utility Pole in Upstate New York
Apr 22 2024 // A man working on a utility pole was electrocuted early Friday when low-hanging wires made contact with the basket of his truck, according to police. The cable company worker was doing routine maintenance in rural Berne,...
Brooklyn Diocese Settles with New York AG for Mishandling Clergy Sex Abuse Cases
Apr 18 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an agreement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn to address years of reported mismanaging clergy sexual abuse cases. According to the Office of the Attorney...
Trump’s Bond Insurer Tells Judge Shortfall Is ‘Inconceivable’
Apr 17 2024 // Donald Trump submitted evidence that the insurer providing his $175 million appeal bond in New York’s civil fraud case is financially capable of paying up if his legal challenge fails, after the state attorney...
Supreme Court Rules Corporate Silence on Impactful Trends Not Securities Fraud
Apr 16 2024 // Shareholders cannot sue companies for fraud if they flout a rule requiring disclosure of trends expected to affect their bottom line unless the omission makes another statement misleading, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on...
