Best Read New York Headlines
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#1 Two Killed When Pickup Hits Amish Buggy in Upstate New York
Sep 22 2023 // ALEXANDRIA, N.Y. (AP) — A pickup truck struck the back of an Amish buggy in northern New York, killing two children who were 1 and 3 years old and injuring four others, police said Thursday. A pickup truck driven by...
#2 Extreme Weather Forcing JFK, Other Airports to Redesign Runways, Systems
Sep 22 2023 // (Bloomberg) — Airports around the world are relocating sensitive electrical equipment to rooftops to protect it from flooding, reinforcing runways to handle extreme temperature swings and revving up air conditioning...
#3 Bus Carrying School Band Members Crashes in New York, Killing 2, Injuring Dozens
Sep 22 2023 // Two people were killed and 40 others were injured when a bus carrying students to a band camp ran off a highway and rolled over in New York State Thursday. The governor of the state said preliminary indications are that a...
#4 Carshare Restart: Hochul Signs Bill Allowing Out-of-State RRGs to Cover Nonprofits
Sep 21 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed legislation that should make it easier for nonprofit groups to find auto insurance coverage through risk retention groups. Assembly Bill 5718 and its companion Senate bill allows...
#5 New York Contractor Sentenced for Defrauding State Workers’ Comp Fund
Sep 20 2023 // A drywall contractor has been sentenced to six months in jail for defrauding the New York State workers’ compensation insurance fund out of almost $3 million in premiums over an eight-year period. The Manhattan...
#6 People Moves: AIG Appoints Dandridge Chief Marketing, Communications Officer; Heck New NAMIC Chair
Sep 26 2023 // AIG Appoints Dandridge EVP and Chief Marketing & Communications Officer American International Group, headquartered in New York, N.Y., hired Edward L. Dandridge as executive vice president and chief marketing and...
#7 Art Dealer to Rich and Famous Faces Millions in Fraud Claims
Sep 14 2023 // A high-profile New York art adviser with outposts in Tribeca and London is accused of withholding millions of dollars worth of artwork and cash from her clients, leaving collectors and galleries to line up in a court case...
#8 Child Dead, Others Sickened from Opioid Exposure at NY Day Care Center
Sep 18 2023 // NEW YORK (AP) — A 2-year-old boy at a home-based day care center in New York City who showed symptoms of opioid exposure died and three other young children were hospitalized, authorities said. Police responded to a...
#9 New York Could Require Flood Disclosures in Home Sales
Sep 18 2023 // Alan Oligario`s home is prone to flooding — and he wishes someone had told him before he bought it. His initial flood came in the first year after he bought the house in Highland Falls, New York. The second came about a...
#10 Trump Found Liable for Fraud in New York Attorney General’s Case
Sep 27 2023 // Donald Trump was found liable for fraud for exaggerating his net worth by billions of dollars a year on financial records submitted to banks and insurers, a major blow to the former president in the biggest civil case...
#11 New York Attorney Changes Plea in Ponzi, Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme
Sep 19 2023 // A disbarred New York attorney has changed his plea to guilty in connection with an $19 million Ponzi scheme and a $30 million auto insurance fraud. Robert Wisnicki, 44, of Forest Hills, pleaded to guilty to conspiracy to...
#12 Is Mar-a-Lago Worth $1 Billion? Valuations at the Core of Trump’s Fraud Trial
Oct 10 2023 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — How much is Donald Trump`s Mar-a-Lago worth? That`s been a point of contention after a New York judge ruled that the former president exaggerated the Florida property`s value when he said...
#13 Piercing Through Rain, Smoke and Fog: How Radar Satellites See Catastrophes
Nov 14 2023 // Executive Summary: The potential for satellite technology to revolutionize claims management has long been recognized but has only recently been realized with technological advancements. Satellite-based data can give the...
#14 Regulatory Battles In Personal Lines Ahead; Allstate May Drop Customers
Dec 8 2023 // Analysts from Standard & Poor’s predicted this week that while personal auto results are starting to stabilize, the continued push for rate in 2024 will set the stage for more faceoffs between regulators and...
#15 Defense Expert at New York Trump Trial Testifies He Sees No Evidence of Fraud
Dec 11 2023 // Former President Donald Trump returned to his civil fraud trial last Thursday to spotlight his defense, renewing his complaints that the case is baseless and heaping praise on an accounting professor`s testimony that...
#16 Return-to-Office Is $1.3 Trillion Problem Few Have Figured Out
Sep 5 2023 // In the emerging post-pandemic era, most aspects of life have returned to normal. Moviegoers are flocking to cinemas, vacationers jammed airports for summer travel and kids are returning to classrooms. The one thing that...
#17 Ocean Temperatures Hit 90 Degrees, Fueling Weather Disasters
Jul 28 2023 // Heat searing enough to knock out mobile phones. Wildfire smoke that turns the skies an apocalyptic orange. Flash floods submerging towns in upstate New York and Vermont. This grim procession of recent disasters is being...
#18 As E-Bikes Proliferate, So Do Deadly Fires Blamed on Exploding Batteries
Jul 28 2023 // The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four people asleep in...
#19 Man Sues New York City After 27 Years in Prison Before Being Cleared in Killing
Dec 15 2023 // A man who was recently cleared in the gruesome, fiery 1995 killing of a subway token booth clerk sued New York City and two detectives on Monday, saying that “a wanton and reckless” law enforcement culture...
#20 Social Media Influencer Facing Riot Charges After Mayhem Breaks Loose in NYC
Aug 7 2023 // Social media influencer Kai Cenat is facing charges of inciting a riot and promoting an unlawful gathering in New York City, after the online streamer drew thousands of his followers, many of them teenagers, with promises...
