Nearly 6.9 million homes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States are at potential risk of damage from hurricane storm surge inundation, according to CoreLogic’s 2017 Storm Surge Report.

Forecasters say the Atlantic could see another above-normal hurricane season in 2017. Forecasters predicted 11-17 named storms, five to nine hurricanes and two to four hurricanes could be "major" with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that the state will allow testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads, potentially leaving perplexed New Yorkers wondering who to flip off when they jaywalk in front of a car without a driver.

A legal dispute between the New York town of Amherst and its insurer has been elevated to the state Supreme Court. The subject of the dispute is the $3.13 million remainder of an indemnity paid as settlement when a contractor fell from a building owned by the town of Amherst.

Leading travel insurance trends aren’t just focused on hurricanes and illness anymore. A considerable number of traveler inquiries are now seeking to make certain that they are protected against losses from terrorism, too.

Buffalo firefighters were called to a two-alarm fire on Pearl Street early Tuesday morning. Two-alarms mean nearly 60 firefighters were on the scene.

At least three people were hurt in a motor vehicle accident involving a tractor-trailer in the Rosedale section of Queens Monday evening.

The average person likely doesn’t have much interest in New York crop insurance, believing it to be the business of farmers and politicians. However, a recent development has brought the issue closer to home in a very visible way.

Workers compensation reforms were included in the final version of New York’s fiscal 2017-2018 budget, which passed the New York State Senate Sunday following an agreement between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and leadership of the New York State Legislature.

Meet a victim of the nation’s opioid addiction scourge: the American worker. A number of U.S. states are taking steps through their workers compensation systems to stem the overprescribing of the powerful painkillers to workers injured on the job, while helping those who became hooked to avoid potentially deadly consequences.

Employees and third-party services are most likely the weakest links in a company’s cyber security system, but regular risk assessments can help prevent information leaks, a financial services regulatory attorney said last week.

Nine people were hospitalized Tuesday after a chain-reaction accident involving ten cars on Long Island. Police say a 76-year-old man driving a Lexus sedan suffered a medical event and sped up to a red light on Route 110.

When mass-producing packaged foods, one of the goals is to prevent pieces of the processing equipment out of the food. A plant that makes José Olé products came up short of that aspiration, resulting in a recall of 17.5 tons of taquitos that could contain pieces of plastic and rubber.

A New Windsor man pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted arson and insurance fraud in a 2016 fire at a Town of Newburgh eatery he leased. Khaled Baroud, 61, admitted in Orange County Court to attempted arson in the March 13, 2016 fire that damaged USA Waffle, a waffle and bagel store at 440 South Plank Road.

This doesn’t rise to the level of prepperdom, where people are preparing for apocalyptic events ranging from a world economic collapse to chemical attacks or zombie takeovers, but the state Department of Financial Services is trying to get home insurers to offer outlines for disaster preparedness courses.