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People Moves: Brace Underwriting Adds Dorr; Brown & Riding Expands in New York; Mead Heads Vermont Captives
Feb 8 2022 // Brace Bolsters North America Team with Dorr Brace Underwriting Limited announced the appointment of Glenn Dorr as head of distribution, North America, continuing the firm’s expansion. Based in Boston, Dorr will help...
3 Firms to Pay $65M to Settle Upstate New York Water Pollution Class Action
Feb 8 2022 // HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $65 million settlement in a class action lawsuit with three companies over chemical contamination of the water supply in an upstate New York village. The Times...
Reuters Special Report: J&J’s Secret Plan to Limit Payouts to Cancer Claimants
Feb 7 2022 // Johnson & Johnson created a plan last year to limit the financial bleeding from billions of dollars in jury awards to plaintiffs who alleged the company’s Baby Powder and other talc products caused deadly...
Business Moves
Feb 7 2022 // National Marsh McLennan, Affinity Agency Association Member Benefits Advisors, a national affinity-based membership and marketing insurance agency, has agreed to acquire the associations business of Mercer, a business of...
Geico $4.5M Insurance Fraud Suit Seeks Documents From New York City Mayoral Aide
Feb 4 2022 // New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s chief of staff, Frank Carone, was subpoenaed for documents in a $4.5 million federal civil racketeering lawsuit over alleged fraudulent insurance charges. The subpoena to Carone, who...
Hilb Group Acquires New York’s Malvaso Agency
Feb 3 2022 // The Hilb Group reports it has acquired the Mark E. Malvaso Agency, building upon the company’s presence throughout New York state. The transaction became effective January 1, 2022. Based in Elbridge, New York, the...
Sweeping Class Action Accuses NFL Teams of Racial Bias Against Blacks
Feb 2 2022 // The recently fired head coach of the Miami Dolphins has filed a scathing lawsuit accusing the National Football League of past and present unfair discrimination against Black coaches, players, owners, managers and...
New York AG Says State to Receive $230M From $26B Opioid Settlement
Jan 28 2022 // New York Attorney General Letitia James said the state will receive the maximum amount of $230 million available under the $26 billion settlement agreement.with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors...
Police Officer’s Immunity Does Not Extend to New York County Employer: U.S. Court
Jan 27 2022 // A municipality in New York may be held liable for wrongful action by an employee even though the employee was granted individual immunity. A police detective found liable by a jury for a false arrest was entitled to...
New York Will Require Employers to Disclose Monitoring to New Hires
Jan 27 2022 // Employers in New York must disclose electronic monitoring, such as internet access and videoconferencing, to new hires under a new law taking effect in May, as workers contend with an employment landscape that’s...
Harris Confirmed as New York Financial Services Chief
Jan 26 2022 // The New York State Senate has voted to confirm Adrienne A. Harris as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). Harris, a former economic advisor to President Barack Obama, was nominated...
Sarah Palin’s Positive COVID Test Delays New York Times Defamation Trial
Jan 24 2022 // Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, has tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing a U.S. judge on Monday to delay her defamation trial against The New York...
Sarah Palin’s Defamation Trial Against New York Times Scheduled to Start
Jan 24 2022 // Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, has spent 4-1/2 years battling the New York Times over an editorial she said falsely linked her to a deadly Arizona mass shooting that...
Relation Insurance Acquires Ginsberg Agency in New York
Jan 21 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, a national insurance agency based in California, has acquired the assets of New York-based Ginsberg Agency, the company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ginsberg...
New York Contractor Underreported Payroll by 89 Workers, DA Says
Jan 20 2022 // A Congers, New York, contractor has been arrested after he was indicted on insurance fraud charges for allegedly underreporting his payroll by 89 workers. Anthony Frascone, 51, owner of Alpha-Omega, told his workers’...
Former New York Post Editor Alleges Harassment, Retaliation
Jan 20 2022 // A New York Post editor whose departure was announced Tuesday alleged she was fired two months after revealing to an executive that former editor Col Allan had sexually harassed her. The Post said any suggestion of...
Alera Group Acquires New York-Based International Broker Foa & Son
Jan 19 2022 // Alera Group reports it has acquired Foa & Son, an international insurance broker based in New York City. Terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1861, Foa & Son maintains commercial practice groups in multinational...
Doctors, Police Officer Among 13 Indicted in Alleged $100M Auto Insurance Scam
Jan 19 2022 // Federal prosecutors have charged 13 people—including a New York City police officer, an attorney and four physicians—in two indictments that allege they schemed to defraud auto insurers out of $100 million by bribing...
New York Reconsiders Statute of Limitations for Adult Sexual Abuse Survivors
Jan 19 2022 // New Yorkers who were sexually abused as adults could sue abusers in civil court under a bill that supporters are again urging the state to pass. The Adult Survivors Act would provide a one-year litigation window for those...
Safety Doors Failed in New York City High-Rise Apartment Fire That Killed 17
Jan 13 2022 // Investigators sought answers Monday for why safety doors failed to close when fire broke out in a New York high-rise, allowing thick smoke to rise through the tower and kill 17 people, including eight children, in the...
