This month in New York Life history—February.

2024

Feb. 21: New York Life and Major League Baseball forged a multi-year partnership, including support of Little League Baseball and Softball. Additionally, New York Life and the U.S. Soccer Federation announced a purposeful, multi-year partnership.

2021

Feb. 16: Current Chair, President & CEO Craig DeSanto was elected to New York Life’s Board of Directors.

2020

Feb. 2: A New York Life ad airs during the Big Game in Miami. The ad, which focused on the "Agape" type of love and part of a larger "Love Takes Action" campaign, aired during the game which captured the attention of 102 million TV viewers at home. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 31–20.

2013

Feb. 19: The National 9/11 Memorial & Museum announced a $5 million donation from the New York Life Foundation to support the museum’s Education Center. Then-Chairman and CEO Ted Mathas noted that the museum’s “mission aligns with the New York Life Foundation’s focus on young people, particularly in the areas of educational enhancement opportunities and childhood bereavement.”

1935

Feb. 13: Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover joined New York Life’s board of directors, the second U.S. President to do so. (The first was Calvin Coolidge, who died in 1933).

1904

Feb. 7–8: Two branch offices were destroyed in the Great Baltimore Fire, one of the most destructive fires in American history. New York Life continued business uninterrupted — employees and agents set up temporary offices and used duplicate files from the Home Office to keep track of their business.

1892

Feb. 12: The board of trustees elected John A. McCall New York Life’s fifth president. McCall would oversee the implementation of the modern managerial model for New York Life’s field force.

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