If entering a roundabout makes you fear you’re about to crash, you’re not paranoid. Although the rotaries are built to ease congestion and lessen serious injuries, data obtained by the Times Union show the number of collisions increased after most …
The Brooklyn district attorney says an auto body shop has been indicted in an insurance fraud case. DA Charles J. Hynes alleges the body shop in Borough Park “enhanced damage to cars” when submitting inflated bills to insurance companies. The …
Two diamond dealers will spend more than a year in prison after being convicted of staging a heist in hopes of snaring insurance money to save their failing New York City business. Mahaveer Kankariya and Atul Shah were sentenced Friday …
Federal food safety authorities say chives distributed in nine states by an upstate New York company are being recalled because of possible listeria contamination. The Food and Drug Administration says the chives from Goodness Gardens Inc. of New Hampton were …
Approximately five percent of New York State motorists may be driving uninsured -among the lowest in the country, according to the New York Insurance Association (NYIA). NYIA cited a study from the Insurance Research Council which reported that 5.4 percent …
New York’s top court has reinstated a Manhattan restaurant worker’s product liability lawsuit against the companies behind Lewis Red Devil Lye, concluding they have to do more than simply state the chemical compound is inherently dangerous and everyone knows it. …
Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $4 million against 20 New York area defendants. The complaint specifically cites six physicians, eight medical professional corporations, and the lay-owned companies allegedly used to control the medical professional corporations. The complaint alleges …
A teenager who had to be rescued after he fell off a western New York cliff last year has joined the fire department that helped bring him to safety. Andrew Carriero of Gowanda was hunting last November in the gorge …
Residents in parts of central New York are cleaning up damage caused by severe storms that downed trees, flooded roads and basements and tore the roofs off several structures across the region. The thunderstorms that passed in a northeasterly direction …
An asbestos-cleanup worker testified at a manslaughter trial that three construction-company supervisors learned quickly about a dramatic break in a firefighting water pipe linked to a deadly blaze. Adolpho Ortiz testified Monday that workers heard a piece of the pipe …