By: Art Shea In case you have wondered whatever became of Ralph Milo, long a popular industry figure as the Chairman and CEO of Clarendon, the four hundred million dollar insurance group sold to Hannover Re in 1999, you will find him these days at Ocean Harbor Insurance Group, which he now chairs with the […]
Governor Cuomo has started off 2013 with the swift passage of the SAFE Act in a whirl wind of activity in Albany. We hope that the same kind of attention will find its way down to the mid-section of the State of the State address, in which he proposed great reforms for workers’ compensation programs […]
The “Looking Back” feature in the past couple of issues of IA have been cruel reminders of the abrupt and inglorious closing of the old New York Insurance Exchange twenty-five years ago. These reminders have led to a new flurry of inquiries: What ever happened to the effort to revive the exchange? Has the effort […]
According to the Department of Financial Services’ January 2, 2013 release of disciplinary actions, 7 DFS licensees were revoked while 41 others were imposed fines ranging from $500 to $63,000. All since the DFS’ previous release of disciplinary actions in September 2012. As expected, a handful of small fines ($500, $750) were for technical reporting […]
Now I know why God used a flood to purge the Earth in the Bible. As a professional agent who lives and works on Long Island, I can report that after two months, Sandy has made evident the good and bad of all humanity. First the good: I am proud to be part of an […]
“Woof!” If every dog in the United States made that sound one little doggy in the window at a time, we would hear almost 75 million “barks…and that’s just from the dogs that we know about! As everything I typically write about relates directly back to this thing of ours, reported dog bites occur nearly […]
Dugo v State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co This litigation involves two separate law suits brought by plaintiffs for first-party no-fault benefits provided to defendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company’s insured. In the first action (Index No.23900/02), plaintiff, J.R. Dugo, DC, PC, as assignee of Anthony Giambrone, sought payment of $9,600.00 for chiropractic services […]
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