An "unattended lit menorah" was the source of a fire that killed a Brooklyn woman and her three children during Hanukkah, the New York City Fire Department said.
Financial regulators in New York have banned the use of a consumer’s educational background and occupation as factors in pricing auto insurance premiums.
The increasing pace of cyber-related events and crimes has led state regulators to survey the growing risks and take action. In New York, the Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) enacted cybersecurity rules effective March 1, 2017.
Florida, thanks to a string of liability-expanding decisions, has earned itself the top spot in the newest Judicial Hellhole” rankings, according to an annual report issued by the American Tort Reform Association Tuesday.
A fire raged across three blocks in a city near Albany on Thursday after a man tried to forge a piece of metal over a fire in a barrel near his home, officials said.
A fire broke out in the Viacom building in Times Square on Monday evening, forcing the evacuation of more than 100 people, officials said.<br /><br />Approximately 84 firefighters responded to the 45-story building on 45th Street and Broadway around 4:15 p.m. after reports of smoke in a basement parking garage, officials said.
The developer of the World Trade Center in New York has reached a $95.2 million settlement of all claims against American Airlines Group Inc, United Continental Holdings Inc and other aviation defendants stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which involved the carriers’ hijacked planes.
Emergency crews responded to the scene of an explosion and fire that killed one man and injured more than 30 people, including firefighters, at a manufacturing plant in New York’s Hudson Valley.
A driver took off during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Saturday, plowing through a red light and hitting an MTA bus and two cars in chaotic crashes that left six people injured, the NYPD said.
A tenant who was missing after their upper Manhattan apartment building went up in flames has been accounted for, police said Saturday, meaning no one is believed to have been killed in the massive blaze. <br />.
New Yorkers will do anything to help their fellow man — and here’s the video to prove it. After a scaffold collapsed Sunday in lower Manhattan, trapping two people underneath, dozens of New Yorkers pitched in to pull off hunks of debris and save them.
Who knew high society could stoop so low! A Manhattan socialite discovered someone had stolen $1 million in precious 16th-century art from his tony Fifth Avenue home after he held a swanky soiree there Friday.
The Second Circuit’s Court of Appeals’ rulings Wednesday on two cases brought by a Syracuse, N.Y., collision repairer will have a significant impact on New York repairers but touch the rest of the nation as well, an auto body repair-focused attorney predicted Monday.
Nearly a dozen people, most of them children, were fortunate to escape with only minor injuries when a huge piece of a tree crushed their small school bus in Queens Monday, according to officials and video from the scene.
The preparedness of U.S. businesses is still wanting despite lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy and the high hurricane activity, devastation and losses so far this Atlantic hurricane season, suggests Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS).
