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• Safest Cities in New York, 2019.
• How Not to Get Sued by Your Employees in 2019.
• Telling the Real Story.
• SMALL BUSINESSES 'SATISFIED': Small Business Commercial Insurance Customer Satisfaction Reaches Ail-Time High Thanks to Investments in Digital, Servicing and Product Expansion, J.D. Power Finds.
• DFS Addresses Insurers' Discriminatory Practices With Respect to Certain Prescription Drug Use.
• Next- Generation Solutions for Next- Generation Security Risks.
• Intentional Acts, Domestic Abuse and False Imprisonment Excluded: No Excuse, No Coverage, for Intentional and Criminal Abusive Conduct.
• Five Steps: To Resolving Construction Disputes Without Litigation.
• New York's Timely Disclaimer Statute Does Not Apply to Foreign Risk Retention Groups, Holds Court or Appeals: Nadkos, Inc. v Preferred Contrs. Ins. Co. Risk Retention Group LLC.
• Excess of Loss or Quota Share Reinsurance When Excess of Loss is the Better Bet.

Featured documents

• Court of Appeals Holds that Control of Medical PC by Non-Physicians is Fraud in Itself: Non-Party Witness Pleading the Fifth May Be Used Against PC in Civil Trial: Andrew Carothers, M.D., P.C. v Progressive Insurance Co.
• No "Occurrence" in Ohio for Contractor's or Sub-Contractor's Defective Work: An "Occurrence" Must Be Fortuitous.
• Big I Confab Targets Five Key 'Takeaways' for New York Agents: Big I New York brought together the independent agency community at GO BIG 2019. This sold out event featured sessions on agency valuation and cybersecurity, a panel of carrier leaders, and an industry marketplace. Five key takeaways were pulled to share from this insightful day.
• Mother, Don't Let Your Child Become an Adjuster in Washington State: Statute Makes Individual Adjuster Liable for Tort of Bad Faith.
• No Damage, No Case or Controversy, No Right to Sue in Federal Court: Assignee has no more Right to Sue than Assignor.
• NAIC Reports 32 States Now Certified Under Its Accreditation Program, Representing Overwhelming Percentage Of Countrywide P/C And Life Premiums.
• White and Griffin Honored.
• Getting the Hybrids on the Road.
• Offer Letters and Employment Agreements: Is There a Difference?
• FinTech Draws High Achievers.