Benjamin Lawsky

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  MetLife removes alien status from captive

  By Arthur D. Postal, Elizabeth D. Festa  |  May 21, 2013

  MetLife is merging three U.S. life insurers and a captive reinsurer “to create a larger, well capitalized U.S. life company.”

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  ELNY liquidation expected in 3Q

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  May 14, 2013

  In the fight on breach of fiduciary duty, Edward Stone plans to sue MetLife, Credit Suisse and N.Y. insurance superintendents.

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  NY finds $665 million in unclaimed life insurance

  By Michael Gormley  |  January 29, 2013

  Shares of the money will go to 89,000 unsuspecting beneficiaries nationwide.

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  New York fines HealthNow $700,000

  By Liz Festa  |  January 17, 2013

  The company also had agent management issues in addition to lapses in explanation of coverage.

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  Excellus Bluecross Blueshield rebates $3.1 million to New Yorkers

  By Elizabeth D. Festa  |  November 28, 2012

  New Yorkers who pay their premiums and deductibles deserve to have their insurance company properly pay their claims, says New York's attorney general.

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  New York issues heavy-duty warning against PBR

  By Elizabeth D. Festa  |  November 27, 2012

  On the eve of the NAIC manual adoption, New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky launched a warning to his insurance commissioners about principles-based reserving.

• Point of no return

  By Bill Coffin  |  November 6, 2012

  This month, we are presenting a very special editorial project, an investigation into the rehabilitation, restructuring and liquidation of the Executive Life Insurance Company of New York, or ELNY.

• Millennial: Setting Benchmarks

  By Micheal K. Stanley  |  November 6, 2012

• Lawsky affair rekindles regulatory arbitrage risk

  By Staff Writer  |  August 21, 2012

  Is the New York state superintendent of Financial Services who made Standard Chartered settle allegations of illegal Iranian money transfers a hero or a rogue?

• Settlement spotlights upstart N.Y. regulator

  By Staff Writer  |  August 20, 2012

  How did a state regulator manage to jump ahead of the feds, threaten to take away a global bank’s state license and secure a settlement that will put millions of dollars into a general fund New York could desperately use?