All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 8 2019 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled that a landlord can’t be held responsible for burns an infant suffered rolling from a bed onto a scalding radiator.The 5-2 decision issued July 31 means the landlord...
Aug 6 2019 // Pornography producers and sellers account for the lion’s share of copyright-infringement lawsuits in the U.S. — and judges may have seen enough.The courts are cracking down on porn vendors that file thousands...
Aug 2 2019 // A claim for damages from Superstorm Sandy that has been rejected several times by the state of New Jersey got another chance from a divided state Supreme Court on Monday.In a 4-3 ruling, the high court said an arbitrator...
Jul 25 2019 // More than 67,000 homes and businesses in New Jersey are still without electricity two days after a line of thunderstorms downed trees and power lines.Most are Jersey Central Power and Light customers in Monmouth and Ocean...
Jul 24 2019 // Strong winds may be to blame for the collapse of a construction crane in New Jersey.The crane came down onto a house and an apartment building across from Rutgers University in New Brunswick on Sunday night. News 12 New...
Jul 24 2019 // Crews are working to restore electricity for hundreds of thousands of people in New Jersey after powerful storms blew across the state.Utilities say 246,193 homes and businesses were without service Tuesday morning. At one...
Jul 22 2019 // New Jersey Transit may not be solely responsible for a $1.8 million jury award to a woman injured when a fellow bus passenger hit her with a bottle, a court has ruled.A state appeals court ruled this week that liability...
Jul 18 2019 // A New Jersey man charged with killing his brother and the brother’s wife and two children is facing a new charge of insurance fraud. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office refused to give any details of the...
Jul 17 2019 // Plymouth Rock Assurance has agreed to expand its investment in the motorcycle insurance segment with the acquisition of Rider Insurance Company, subject to regulatory approvals.A New Jersey-based motorcycle insurance...
Jul 16 2019 // A New Jersey judge has ruled that a lifeguard who collided with a woman as he ran to cover a vacated lifeguard stand is protected by state’s Good Samaritan Act.The woman had sued North Wildwood, its beach patrol and...
Jul 16 2019 // Brown & Brown Metro LLC has acquired substantially all of the assets of Innovative Risk Solutions Inc.Innovative Risk Solutions was founded in 2004 by sole shareholder Sean Gormley with the goal of providing employee...
Jul 15 2019 // A federal appeals court upheld a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing rules that allow more employers to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives to women.The three-judge panel of the...
Jul 15 2019 // The U.S. Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation into whether Johnson & Johnson lied to the public about the possible cancer risks of its talcum powder, people with knowledge of the matter said.The...
Jul 10 2019 // Sedgwick, a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business products, has signed an agreement to acquire York Risk Services Group.York is a Jersey City, N.J.-headquartered provider of claims...
Jul 2 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Navy Contractors Inc. for exposing employees to fall hazards at a work site in Lakewood, N.J. The company faces $84,183 in...
Jul 1 2019 // A Bergen County, N.J., woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for filing phony insurance claims for losses she purportedly sustained during Superstorm Sandy and for filing a false bankruptcy application to shed...
Jun 28 2019 // A fast-moving fire roared through several homes in a northern New Jersey neighborhood, injuring six firefighters and displacing nearly 50 residents.The fire in Paterson began around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in a home on Summer...
Jun 27 2019 // New Jersey’s environmental regulators have failed for nearly a decade to meet a legal requirement they provide a detailed written account for each year of enforcement actions against polluters of state waterways, the...
Jun 25 2019 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA), an independent insurance agency headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., has acquired Links Insurance Services LLC of Wall, N.J., on June 13, 2019. Links Insurance Services LLC was...
Jun 24 2019 // The 2018-2019 legislative sessions of Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania have all but ended without the passage of adult use cannabis legislation. This was especially surprising in New York and New Jersey,...