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So You Comply with New York Reg. 500: Now What?
Apr 17 2019 // In March of 2017, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) implemented 23 NYCRR §500 (NY Reg. 500). In doing so, it became the first state regulatory authority to impose regulations that address cybersecurity...
New York City May Ban Pre-Hire Marijuana Tests for Many Job Applicants
Apr 15 2019 // Many job-seekers would no longer face tests for marijuana use under legislation that New York City is likely to enact, taking a novel step as lawmakers and employers around the U.S. grapple with workplace policies about...
Worker Killed by Falling Crane Counterweight in New York City
Apr 15 2019 // A worker was crushed to death Saturday when a crane counterweight fell on him at a lower Manhattan construction site, the third time in less than a week that a New York City construction worker was killed on the...
Brake Complaints Cause Lyft to Replace 3,000 Electric Bikes in 3 Cities
Apr 15 2019 // Lyft Inc. is removing several thousand electric bikes from service in its bike-share program in New York, Washington and San Francisco because of a braking problem, the ride-hailing company said on Sunday. “We...
Lawyer Says Challenge to NYC’s Vaccination Order in the Works
Apr 12 2019 // New York City’s effort to halt a measles outbreak by ordering mandatory vaccinations in one Brooklyn neighborhood is facing opposition, with lawyers for parents opposed to vaccinations promising to file a lawsuit...
New York City Orders Mandatory Vaccines for Some Amid Measles Outbreak
Apr 11 2019 // Health officials Tuesday ordered nearly everyone in a heavily Orthodox Jewish New York City neighborhood to be vaccinated for measles or face fines, reviving a public-health strategy that experts say hasn’t been used...
Reuters: J&J Refocused Baby Powder Marketing on Minority, Overweight Women
Apr 10 2019 // Pressure was mounting on Johnson & Johnson and its signature Baby Powder. In 2006, an arm of the World Health Organization began classifying cosmetic talc such as Baby Powder as “possibly carcinogenic” when...
Audit Says New York Health Inspectors Go Easy on Restaurant Violations
Apr 8 2019 // Food safety inspectors in New York state failed to take action in response to hundreds of serious health code violations, according to a state audit published Friday. Officials from state Comptroller Thomas...
Gramercy Risk Holdings Acquires New York’s Executive Insurance Company
Apr 4 2019 // Gramercy Risk Holdings LLC, a Uniondale, N.Y.-based insurance holding company, has acquired Executive Insurance Company, a New York-domiciled admitted insurance company. Following the acquisition, Executive will be renamed...
New York-Based SterlingRisk Insurance Hires JLNY Group’s Bocanegra
Apr 4 2019 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based, independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Angelina M. Bocanegra as alternative market program director. In this role, Bocanegra will manage strategic growth within...
New York Judge Dismisses Some of Levine’s Claims Against Met Opera
Apr 3 2019 // A New York judge last week dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine against the company last year. Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016,...
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Apr 1 2019 // National Ironshore Specialty Casualty has appointed Casey Hartley as senior vice president and head of programs. She will oversee the development, marketing and distribution of programs lines, working with programs...
Purdue Pharma Owners Sued by New York Over Opioid Addiction Epidemic
Mar 29 2019 // The billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma LP were sued by New York state for allegedly triggering a U.S. addiction epidemic with their marketing of the Oxycontin painkiller, just two days after the company agreed to pay $270...
Alliant Hires Rossi Capital Partners’ Rossi as Vice President in New York
Mar 29 2019 // Alliant has hired Francis Rossi as vice president. In this new role, the New York-based property and casualty insurance veteran will deploy his experience in finance, insurance and risk management to a portfolio of...
Alera Group Acquires New York City’s Phalanx Healthcare Solutions
Mar 28 2019 // Alera Group, a national insurance firm, has acquired Phalanx Healthcare Solutions LLC, effective March 1, 2019. Located in New York City, Phalanx is an insurance and reinsurance broker of medical malpractice insurance for...
N.Y. Cyber Reg: A Third-Party Service Provider Compliance Framework
Mar 27 2019 // This writing presents a framework that if adopted by insurance agencies and carriers could simplify and minimize the cost of complying with the New York Department of Finance Regulation 23 NYCRR Section 500.11...
New York’s SterlingRisk Insurance Hires McLaughlin as Program Sales Executive
Mar 22 2019 // SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based independently owned insurance brokerage, has hired Debbie McLaughlin as program sales executive. In this position, McLaughlin will conduct market outreach on behalf of...
New York Man Arrested for Alleged Car Dealership Insurance Fraud Scheme
Mar 22 2019 // A Bronx County, N.Y., man has been arrested and arraigned on a felony complaint for an alleged insurance fraud scheme. Barrington Mayne, who is not an insurance broker, allegedly used his position and contacts at various...
Union Claims Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Employee
Mar 21 2019 // A union organizing Amazon.com Inc. employees in New York has filed a complaint accusing the company of illegally firing one of the labor group’s most prominent supporters. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store...
Family Behind Purdue Pharma Facing Second Suit Over Role in Opioid Crisis
Mar 21 2019 // The billionaire family that owns opioid-maker Purdue Pharma LP has been accused by local governments in a new lawsuit of causing the nationwide public-health crisis involving pain-killing medicines that has left hundreds...
