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New York’s SterlingRisk Insurance Hires Rosu as Senior Program Underwriter
Jul 3 2019 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based, independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Taryn Rosu as senior program underwriter. In this role, Rosu will handle new business and renewals for the Combined Real...
New York Governor Cuomo Orders Probe into Facebook’s Advertising Platform
Jul 2 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Financial Services to investigate reports that state-regulated advertisers were using Facebook Inc’s advertising platform in a discriminatory...
QBE North America Hires Ryan as SVP of Analytics in New York
Jul 1 2019 // QBE North America, an integrated specialist insurer, has hired Risa Ryan as SVP of Analytics to lead the development and delivery of analytic services. Based in QBE’s New York office, Ryan will be responsible for...
People
Jul 1 2019 // National American International Group said Kathleen Zortman will join the company as president and CEO of Private Client Group, General Insurance. In this new role, Zortman will lead AIG’s global high net worth...
Purdue’s Sackler Family Must Face Opioid Suits in New York
Jun 26 2019 // The billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma LP must face a New York lawsuit claiming they triggered the U.S. opioid epidemic, a judge ruled, handing an early victory to states and local governments seeking to recoup billions...
New York City Uber Driver Gets Three Years for Kidnapping Sleeping Passenger
Jun 26 2019 // A man who drove for Uber in New York City has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for abducting a woman who fell asleep inside his vehicle. A judge Monday also ordered Harbir Parmar to pay more than $3,600 in...
JetBlue Lawsuit Claims Walmart Violates Its Trademark with Jetblack Service
Jun 25 2019 // JetBlue Airways Corp. has sued Walmart Inc. for trademark infringement, in an effort to stop the world’s largest retailer from using the name Jetblack for its text-based personal shopping service. In a complaint...
Financial Services Provides Plenty of Jobs – from Coast to Coast: Opinion
Jun 24 2019 // There were 755,436 people working in financial activities in the New York metropolitan area last year, more than twice as many as in the next-biggest area for such jobs, metro Los Angeles. But this amounted to just 8% of...
New York to Adopt Aggressive Emission Reduction Goals
Jun 20 2019 // New York would adopt some of the nation’s most aggressive emission reduction goals under a proposal worked out by state leaders and set for a vote in the state Legislature Tuesday night. Under the proposal, New York...
New York Effort to Legalize Marijuana Fails; Decriminalization Possible
Jun 19 2019 // New York state lawmakers couldn’t approve marijuana legalization this session, and the legislature is now considering a back-up bill that would expand access to the drug for medical reasons and decriminalize its...
New York Senator Schumer Calls for Repairs to Lake Ontario Infrastructure
Jun 18 2019 // New York Senator Chuck Schumer plans to call on the Army Corps of Engineers to provide funding for repairs to flood-ravaged infrastructure at Little Sodus Bay Harbor on Lake Ontario. A pier and a barrier bar began to...
Business Moves
Jun 17 2019 // National Ryan Specialty, Atlantic Specialty Ryan Specialty Group has acquired the assets and operations of Atlantic Specialty Lines Inc. The ASL team is now a part of R-T Specialty, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan...
Rebranded Crime App Aims for ‘People-Powered Public Safety Net’
Jun 14 2019 // One afternoon in late October 2017, hundreds of students from the elite Avenues private school in Manhattan were loaded onto buses, ready to head home. Suddenly, school principal Abby Brody got a disturbing smartphone...
Official Says Pilot Who Crashed Helicopter in NYC Radioed He Was Lost
Jun 14 2019 // The pilot killed when his helicopter hit the roof of a New York City skyscraper in rain and fog radioed that he was lost and trying to get back to the heliport but couldn’t find it, an official briefed on the...
Cook Maran Hires Roberts in NYC as Private Client Advisor for Personal Insurance
Jun 13 2019 // Cook Maran, a Prime Risk partner, recently hired Elliot Roberts as a private client advisor for Personal Insurance. He will operate out of the Cook Maran office in New York City. Roberts was previously vice president of...
Pilot Killed in New York Crash Wasn’t Certified to Fly in Bad Weather
Jun 13 2019 // The pilot killed Monday when his helicopter slammed into the roof of a New York City skyscraper was not authorized to fly in limited visibility, according to his pilot certification, raising questions about why he took off...
Video Believed to Show Helicopter Flying Erratically Before New York Crash
Jun 12 2019 // The helicopter that slammed into the roof of a Manhattan high-rise building on Monday was apparently captured on video minutes earlier flying erratically, and investigators are trying to determine whether the pilot should...
OneBeacon Financial Institutions Hires Hamilton in New York City
Jun 11 2019 // OneBeacon Financial Institutions, a member of OneBeacon Insurance Group, has hired James Hamilton as vice president overseeing regional operations and contributing to the management of the company’s public bank and...
Helicopter Pilot Killed on Manhattan High-Rise Had Reported a Problem
Jun 11 2019 // The pilot of a helicopter who was killed in a crash-landing on a high-rise building in Manhattan had reported a problem and said he wanted to return to the heliport he had taken off from minutes earlier. The copter instead...
New York Senate Passes New Limo Safety Rules Following Fatal Crash
Jun 10 2019 // The New York Senate approved new safety regulations Thursday for limousines, following an upstate crash that killed 20 people last fall. The nine bills endorsed Thursday include provisions that would require large stretch...
