Kill Bill 

Like a giant great white, the NYC Department of Buildings recently gave a scare to builders with an insurance amendment it issued that not only upped insurance requirements for new constructions to $35M (previously $1M), but did so in a way that made the insurance impossible to get, threatening to bring new building in NYC to a standstill. When Anderson Kill construction attorney Kevin Connolly spotted the problem, he alerted NYSBA real estate chair Ken Block, who immediately appointed Kevin as the new chair of NYSBA Taskforce on Construction Insurance. Kevin tells us he assembled a team, penned a letter to the City, and days later, the law was revised, adopting his recommendation. When this semi-pro paintballer isn’t almost single-handedly saving the NYC construction industry, he again plays the hero at Paintball of Newburg in Plattekill. He tells us he’s been playing the sport, often on teams of 500, for 17 years, and is planning to go to West Point for a big game in October.