All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jul 9 2018 // Several PATH rail stations will close on weekends during the next four months to accommodate work on installing a federally required emergency braking system.The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said its World...
Jul 5 2018 // New Jersey transit officials said Tuesday they hope to earn a two-year extension of a federally mandated deadline for installing an emergency braking system on their rail lines.With an initial deadline six months away, New...
Jul 2 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...
Jun 28 2018 // Selective Insurance Company of America, a subsidiary of Branchville, N.J.-headquartered Selective Insurance Group Inc., has announced the following officer appointments. Maria Orecchio has been appointed to senior vice...
Jun 28 2018 // A New Jersey judge who was injured in a fall outside a courthouse has filed a $1 million claim against the city of Camden.The Courier-Post reported Camden County Assignment Judge Deborah Silverman Katz says in her claim...
Jun 27 2018 // A chiropractor involved in a medical fraud ring that bilked nearly $4 million overall from several insurers is now headed to prison.John Langeraap received a three-year sentence Friday. The 39-year-old Sparta, N.J., man...
Jun 21 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...
Jun 18 2018 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is urging the insurance and banking companies it regulates, as well as New Jersey residents, to prepare now for hurricane season, which officially began June 1.All Garden...