All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 5 2022 // Insurance agency network Renaissance Alliance has acquired two other agency networks, one in New Jersey and another in California.Massachusetts-based Renaissance, which calls itself the “agency growth engine,”...
Jan 4 2022 // On May 24, 2021, inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) observed roofing workers at Venue Estates at Smithville Green, a senior community housing...
Dec 29 2021 // The state attorney general’s office is investigating the shooting death of a man authorities say was driving a backhoe when he damaged vehicles and homes at a mobile home park in New Jersey this month.Joshua...
Dec 17 2021 // A landlord accused of demanding sex from his low-income tenants under threat of eviction or in exchange for helping them receive rent assistance will pay more than $4 million to settle a federal lawsuit, the U.S....
Dec 14 2021 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired E&K Insurance Group of Eatontown, New Jersey, on December 1, 2021. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.E&K was founded in 1930 by two entrepreneurs who...
Dec 9 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, acquired full-service insurance and employee benefits agency Meeker Sharkey & Hurley. Terms of the deal were not announced.Meeker...
Dec 8 2021 // A former executive and owner of a pharmaceutical company embezzled millions of dollars from his company to use for personal expenses, the U.S. attorney’s charged in a criminal complaint released Monday.John Klein...
Dec 6 2021 // Alera Group, an independent, national insurance and wealth management firm, acquired Customized Benefit Solutions Inc. (CBSI), an employee benefits and insurance firm based in Hightstown, New Jersey. Terms of the...
Dec 2 2021 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired Coe-Brooke Insurance Agency Inc. of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, on November 1, 2021. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Coe-Brooke Insurance Agency Inc. is a family...
Dec 1 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired full-service brokerage firm KRA Insurance Agency Inc. Included in the transaction is KRA’s wholly owned subsidiary, KRA...
Nov 22 2021 // A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was indicted for allegedly causing fraudulent automobile insurance applications to be submitted on his behalf in an attempt to avoid paying the policy premiums.John A. Loor (also known as...
Nov 9 2021 // The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office can’t rely on a county’s insurance to cover judgment against a public entity facing tort claims, New Jersey’s Appellate Division has ruled.This comes after...
Oct 29 2021 // Officials on Wednesday were investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a large building that housed several businesses in southern New Jersey.Flames broke out Tuesday night and quickly spread throughout the US Auto...
Oct 27 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, acquired Corrigan Johnston Risk Advisors, an all-lines brokerage focused on transportation-related industries. Terms of the deal were not...
Oct 20 2021 // A former publication company executive was sentenced to more than six years in prison Monday in a $48 million embezzlement plot.A federal judge sentenced Nestor Charriez to 75 months and also ordered him to pay $43 million...
Oct 18 2021 // A New Jersey apartment complex from which 45 families were abruptly evacuated due to a rockslide stemming from the remnants of Hurricane Ida will be demolished, according to the lawyer representing the property...
Oct 14 2021 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s Interagency Council on Climate Resilience released the final version of the state’s first Climate Change Resiliency Strategy, a science-based blueprint for protecting New...
Oct 13 2021 // A construction worker was critically injured in a three-story fall down an elevator shaft at a New Jersey construction site, authorities said. Chief Michael Foligno of the Elmwood Park, New Jersey, police department said...
Sep 27 2021 // Liz Sawyer called Manville, New Jersey, home for more than two decades when Ida became the latest storm to send flood waters crashing into her house. For her and her family it will – she hopes – be the last...
Sep 23 2021 // Federal officials on Tuesday warned of a “dire” situation that is likely to get worse as they explained details of a $16 billion plan to lessen back bay flooding, one of the major sources of storm damage at the...