Delta Sued By Port Authority Over Skid At LaGuardia Airport
Delta Air Lines Inc was sued on Tuesday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for damage caused when a jet skidded off a runway at New Yorks LaGuardia Airport during a March 5, 2015, snowstorm.
February 28, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
New York
Shop Owners Wife Crashes Customers Mercedes Joy Riding; They Claim Workers' Compensation
The owner of a Nanuet window tinting business and his employee-wife face felony charges of ripping off the state workers compensation system by falsely reporting a car accident while on the job, authorities said Friday.
February 26, 2018
Fraud
Workers' Compensation
New York
Driver Injured After Ramming Into Brooklyn Storefront
One person was rushed to the hospital Saturday afternoon after an SUV slammed into a store in Brooklyn. Authorities say it happened around 2:30 p.m. at the Bargainland Discount Center near the corner of Fulton Street and Throop Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
February 26, 2018
Auto
Liability
New York
Florida Family On Vacation Injured By Drunken Wrong-Way Driver
Diego Arsenio Caceres is now facing a vehicular assault charge after being accused of driving drunk and injuring a Florida family and himself in a wrong-way crash on the Bronx River Parkway last week.
February 16, 2018
Auto
Liability
New York
Multiple Crashes Stop Traffic On Mario Cuomo Bridge
It was a morning of mayhem on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. As many as 25 vehicles were involved in 10 crashes, leading to a pile-up that shuttered northbound lanes for roughly three hours as snow piled up on the new $3.9 billion bridge Wednesday morning.
February 8, 2018
Auto
Liability
New York
Cars Take A Hit From Spooked Carriage Horse In New York City
Police say a New York City carriage horse took off running after being scared by a screaming pedestrian with an umbrella, leaving three passengers injured and damaging some cars.
February 5, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
New York
Seven Injured In Multi-Vehicle Crash In Grand Island, New York
Three vehicles, including an NFTA bus, were involved in an accident in Grand Island. It happened around 9 a.m. on Grand Island Boulevard, near Fantasy Island. Investigators are still working to piece together exactly what happened.
February 2, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Subrogation
New York
7-Alarm Fire In New York Apartment Building Started With A Toaster
It took more than 200 firefighters to knock out a massive fire at a six-story apartment building in Washington Heights that was started by a woman making toast in her kitchen.
January 10, 2018
Property
New York
Falling Ice Demolishes Parked Car On Manhattan Street
A large chunk of ice apparently fell from a building in Manhattan, crushing the roof of a parked vehicle. It happened just after 4 p.m. Tuesday on Charlton Street in SoHo.
January 10, 2018
Auto
New York
New York City Traffic Deaths Fall To Record Low Under Safety Program
Led by a sharp drop in pedestrian deaths, overall traffic fatalities in New York City fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2017 to their lowest on record, thanks at least in part to an ongoing safety improvement program, city officials said on Monday.
January 9, 2018
Auto
Liability
New York
Two Injured In Fire At New Yorks Trump Tower: Official
Two people were injured, one seriously, in an early-morning fire near the top of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, the New York Fire Department said on Monday.
January 8, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
New York
Flooding At JFK Airport Adds To Misery After Flight Delays
Flooding from a water main break forced the temporary suspension of some flights at New Yorks John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, adding to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.
January 8, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
New York
Blizzard Conditions Contribute To Interstate Pileup Near Buffalo
At least one person was killed and another seriously injured in a multi-car pileup involving more than two dozen vehicles on the New York State Thruway near Buffalo, authorities said.
January 3, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
New York
Another Apartment Building Fire In The Bronx
At least 12 people were hurt on Tuesday as a fire tore through an apartment building in the Bronx, just days after another blaze in the New York City borough killed 12 people, a New York City Fire Department spokesman said.
January 2, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
New York
New Yorker Collects On Theft Claim After Police Impound Her Car
A Brooklyn woman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly filing a fake insurance claim to a Woodbury company for a car that she knew was seized by police, according to Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.
December 22, 2017
Auto
Fraud
New York



