The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY) says it is moving forward with a legal appeal of a court ruling that forced agents in the state to reveal their commissions to clients. The group plans to file …
New York’s Senate wants everyone convicted of boating while intoxicated to earn a safety certificate before they could operate a boat again. The bill approved Monday by the Senate would require completion of a safe-boating class to secure the certificate. …
Benjamin M. Lawsky has been nominated as superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services, the combined regulator of insurance, banking and related businesses in the Empire State. The new department — the combination of the Banking Department and State …
Insurance agent Christopher A. Brassard has been elected president of Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. (IIABNY), heading a new slate of officers for the state trade group. Brassard — who recently spoke with Insurance Journal about …
Officials are staging a series of public hearings around New York on designing the state’s health insurance exchange as part of federal health care reform. The exchanges are intended to create a market for small businesses and individuals to buy …
The federal agency that governs workplace safety has sent a letter to 63 New York City theaters saying future inspections of the venues will include reviews of their emergency action plans. The letter from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health …
Federal aviation safety investigators are in a densely wooded area in upstate New York where two small planes collided and crashed after taking off from a local airport, killing both pilots. State police Capt. Joseph Tripodo says investigators from the …
The latest and broadest sting in a crackdown on commercial drivers that has ensnared 173 of them since a deadly March tour bus crash has netted nearly four dozen more arrests of drivers of tour buses, New York City buses, …
Ondrej Marga faces a potential prison sentence after claiming he was Marga Ondrej. The operator of a Putnam County construction company, Ondrej Marga was arrested for fraudulently attempting to obtain workers’ compensation coverage. New York State Insurance Department Frauds Bureau …
At one end of the Burlington, Vermont neighborhood, 16-year-old Nathan Shappy was filling sandbags to put around his family’s house. Nearby, Maria Spadanuda waded through 8-inch deep floodwaters surrounding her home, the one she was told she didn’t need flood …
