All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2018 // IAT Insurance Group, a Raleigh, N.C.-headquartered provider of specialty property and casualty products, has finalized its acquisition of Newark, N.J.-headquartered IFIC Surety Group Inc. IFIC consists of International...
Oct 1 2018 // Marsh & McLennan, JLTMarsh & McLennan Inc. agreed to buy Jardine Lloyd Thompson for about $5.7 billion to expand its global offering of reinsurance and consulting services. New York-based Marsh said the purchase of...
Sep 24 2018 // New Jersey state police say the death of a ship worker killed when two steel planks fell on him has been ruled an accident. Basim Gilliard was hit around 9:15 a.m. Sunday while he was unloading cargo from the hold of the...
Sep 13 2018 // New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and emergency officials urged caution Tuesday as Hurricane Florence approaches the East Coast even though the worst effects of the storm are expected to miss the state.Murphy even jokingly...
Sep 3 2018 // Satellite Agency Network Group Inc. (SAN), a Hampton, N.H.-based alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, has hired Sondra Collins as a commercial lines placement specialist for its AccessPlus...
Sep 3 2018 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is investigating the marketing and sale in New Jersey of insurance sponsored by the National Rifle Association for potential violations of state insurance laws.The...
Aug 27 2018 // New Jersey Transit has been rejected for additional federal money as it scrambles to install a required safety system by year’s end.The Federal Railroad Administration on Thursday announced more than $200 million in...
Aug 24 2018 // Wilson Elser has hired James Sharp as of counsel in its New Jersey office.Sharp’s practice focus is professional liability and insurance defense with a particular emphasis on health care. He most frequently...
Aug 22 2018 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is investigating the marketing and sale in New Jersey of insurance sponsored by the National Rifle Association for potential violations of state insurance laws.The...
Aug 20 2018 // Plymouth Rock Assurance has announced that A.M. Best Rating Services Inc. upgraded the financial strength ratings of the Palisades Group and High Point Homeowners Group to A- (Excellent). In addition, their long-term...
Aug 15 2018 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey has named Paul Monacelli as its PIA national director.Monacelli is CEO of ADP/Statewide Insurance Agencies Inc. in Florham Park, N.J. With more than four decades of...
Aug 13 2018 // Officials say a school bus taking families home from a picnic crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike, sending dozens of people to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says the bus was...
Aug 7 2018 // New Jersey’s new push to sue people and companies responsible for pollution has environmental groups applauding and business interests raising questions and concerns.After two terms of Republican Chris Christie,...
Aug 1 2018 // Two more women have filed federal lawsuits alleging that a New Jersey university is partly to blame for sexual assaults after they say school officials turned a blind eye to an unsanctioned fraternity known for underage...
Jul 23 2018 // The GEICO Board of Directors has promoted Jeremy Connor to vice president of the company’s regional office in Buffalo, N.Y., and its claims office in Marlton, N.J.Connor had served as assistant vice president of...
Jul 20 2018 // An insurance salesman convicted of stealing a client’s inheritance is now headed to prison.Federal prosecutors say Patrick McCullagh received a three-year sentence Wednesday. The 70-year-old Georgetown, Kentucky, man...
Jul 19 2018 // Agency Network Exchange LLC (ANE) has added Linda Foley as director of field operations based in New Jersey.In this role, she will work with member agencies to develop and implement growth plans and maintain agency...
Jul 19 2018 // American Property Insurance Company (APIC), a licensed and admitted commercial insurance carrier headquartered in Eatontown, N.J., has appointed Steven T. Hicks as company controller.Reporting to the chief financial...
Jul 13 2018 // A Florida man has been charged with assuming the identity of a New Jersey doctor to submit more than $1 million in fraudulent medical claims for services allegedly rendered at a Morris County medical center that, in...
Jul 11 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.’s subsidiary, Gallagher Bassett Services Inc., has acquired Pennington, N.J.-based WCD Group LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 2002, WCD manages and mitigates...