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Juul Sued by New York State Over Marketing Vape Products to Kids
Nov 20 2019 // Juul Labs Inc. is being sued by New York for allegedly trampling state marketing laws by targeting teenagers in advertisements for e-cigarettes and misleading statements about nicotine content in vaping products, among...
Epstein Estate Vows Compensation for Accusers Who Drop Damage Lawsuits
Nov 18 2019 // The estate of Jeffrey Epstein wants to set up a fund using the late financier’s fortune to compensate women willing to forgo a spate of lawsuits seeking damages for sexual abuse, according to a court document filed...
Union Mutual of Vermont Companies Hires Campbell
Nov 14 2019 // Sean P. Campbell recently joined Union Mutual of Vermont Companies as assistant vice president of Personal Lines Underwriting and Business Development, President and CEO Michael Nobles announced. Campbell will be based in...
Risk Strategies Appoints Grant as Employee Benefits Practice Leader in New York
Nov 14 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has appointed 25-year industry veteran Michael S. Grant as employee benefits practice leader for the firm’s Greater New York...
NYPD Employees Charged in Car Insurance Scam
Nov 12 2019 // A uniformed New York Police Department officer and five dispatchers are among those charged in a car insurance scam that authorities say compromised the personal information of 60,000 vehicle accident victims and tried to...
New York’s Cook Maran Hires Anzelone as a Client Advisor
Nov 8 2019 // Cook Maran, headquartered in Melville, N.Y., has hired 18-year insurance veteran Chris Anzelone as a client advisor. He will operate out of the Cook Maran location in Melville. Anzelone previously served as director of...
UPS Liable for Shipping Contraband Cigarettes in New York, Damages Reduced
Nov 8 2019 // A federal appeals court found United Parcel Service Inc liable to New York state and New York City for shipping hundreds of thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes, but reduced its payout for damages and unpaid taxes to...
SEC Enforcement Activity Up From Last Year; One Case Affected 8,400 Investors
Nov 7 2019 // Enforcement activity by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in fiscal 2019 resulted in $4.3 billion in fines and disgorgements, up from $3.9 billion a year earlier, the regulator said on Wednesday. Those fines and...
States’ Climate Change Litigation Could Be Useful Tool Against Big Oil: Opinion
Nov 5 2019 // A growing number of cities and states want to turn climate change lawsuits against oil companies into the next tobacco or opioid litigation. In principle, that seems like a truly terrible idea. Such lawsuits will likely do...
New York Man Charged with Insurance Fraud After False Stolen Vehicle Claim
Nov 5 2019 // A 36-year-old Queens, N.Y., man has been charged with insurance fraud, attempted grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly claiming his McLaren sports car had been stolen and filing a false insurance claim in an attempt...
Vaping Firm Juul Disregarded Early Signs It Was Hooking Young Users: Reuters
Nov 5 2019 // The San Francisco startup that invented the groundbreaking Juul e-cigarette had a central goal during its development: captivating users with the first hit. The company had concluded that consumers had largely rejected...
Beazley Makes Two New Underwriting Appointments to Its New York Team
Nov 1 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Matthew Westhoff as head of U.S. large commercial property based in New York. Reporting to Beazley’s global head of commercial property, Simon Jackson, Westhoff will manage...
The Hilb Group Acquires New York’s Avanti Associates
Oct 31 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired New York-based Avanti Associates Ltd., comprised of Associated Insurance Agency of Westchester Inc., Comprehensive Insurance Brokerage Inc. and Bruce Farnham Associates Ltd. The...
Beazley Beefs Up U.S. Large Property Team with Berkshire’s Westhoff, Ironshore’s Irwin
Oct 29 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Matthew Westhoff as head of U.S. large commercial property based in New York. Westhoff will manage the US-based team, working alongside the property team in London. He brings 16...
WCRI Study Examines Impact of Reforms on New York Workers’ Comp System
Oct 28 2019 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) has released a new report for policymakers and system stakeholders to track the performance of the New York workers’ compensation benefit delivery...
Massachusetts Sues Exxon for Misleading Investors, Consumers About Climate Change
Oct 25 2019 // The state of Massachusetts sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors and consumers for decades about the role fossil fuels play in climate change. Attorney General Maura Healey filed...
How Exxon’s Climate Change Trial Ended Up Being About Numbers
Oct 25 2019 // Climate change protesters outside a Manhattan courthouse this week expressed overwhelming support for New York’s landmark securities fraud lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, even if they weren’t entirely sure what...
Exxon, New York AG Face Off Over Climate Change Accounting
Oct 23 2019 // A lawyer for New York’s attorney general on Tuesday told a state judge Exxon Mobil Corp. used two sets of books to hide the true cost of climate change regulations from investors, while an attorney for the oil major...
Exxon Faces Trial Over Claim It Misled Investors About Climate Change Risks
Oct 22 2019 // Exxon Mobil Corp. on Tuesday will face trial in a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing it of misleading investors about the risks of climate change regulations to its business. The trial, expected to begin...
Business Moves
Oct 21 2019 // East The Hilb Group, Damiano Agency, Handy-Apple Valley The Hilb Group LLC has acquired Rhode Island-based Damiano Agency. The transaction became effective July 1, 2019. For more than 30 years, DA has been delivering...
