Following this past weekend’s storms, Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese Goldsmith is advising homeowners to take steps to protect themselves financially.And while many consumers can resolve their property claims by dealing with their insurers and the assigned adjuster on their own, …
It could be several more days before electricity is restored to areas hit by vicious storms that killed at least 13 people and left 3 million power customers to negotiate sweltering temperatures without air conditioning. Across a swath from Indiana …
Rye Brook, N.Y.-based specialty insurer The Navigators Group appointed Jennifer Yang as chief risk officer.
State health officials are moving forward with plans to establish an insurance exchange intended to extend coverage to some 2.7 million New Yorkers without it. In April, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order to establish the statewide exchange, a …
Zurich’s Global Corporate in North America (GCiNA) appointed Brad Kass as chief operations officer, based in New York.In his new role, Kass will be responsible for overseeing the execution of GCiNA’s goals focusing on operating models, project portfolio and change …
New Department of Education figures show that New York City schools made 3,600 calls to the 911 emergency system to deal with non-suicide-related mental health problems during the last school year. That’s 17 students a day who were sent to …
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said Thursday he was disappointed in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the federal healthcare law, but said he will work hard to limit the law’s negative impact on Pennsylvanians.Republican Gov. Corbett, when he was attorney …
Mental health advocates and civil libertarians are calling for a moratorium on police use of stun guns in Vermont following the death of man last week. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mental Health Law Project at Vermont Legal …
New York’s top court has rejected a request by French investors to reinstate their lawsuit over losing $43 million out of $50 million they put into two structured investment vehicles. The investors claim Barclays Bank, Standard & Poor’s and two …
White Mountains Solutions Holding Co., a specialist runoff acquisition operation for White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd., is continuing its acquisition activities. White Mountains Solutions said it has entered into an agreement to acquire two runoff subsidiaries — American General Indemnity …
