All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 15 2018 // A Delaware couple has been arrested for insurance fraud after filing false medical claims for an automobile accident that never occurred, leading their insurance provider to be billed more than $100,000.“We take...
Jun 15 2018 // President Trump has granted a major disaster declaration for the state of New Jersey for damage stemming from the severe winter storm and snowstorm March 6-7.The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the declaration...
Jun 15 2018 // MAPFRE Insurance has entered into definitive agreements with affiliates of The Plymouth Rock Company to exit the states of New York and New Jersey as part of MAPFRE’s previously announced strategy to focus on its...
Jun 12 2018 // Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey has elected Lloyd H. “Rip” Bush Jr. as its president at the association’s annual business conference at Harrah’s in Atlantic City. Bush is a producer for...
Jun 1 2018 // Minnesota on May 30 became the latest state to sue Insys Therapeutics Inc., accusing the drugmaker of illegally marketing a powerful fentanyl-based pain medicine, while a former employee pleaded guilty in New Jersey over...
May 25 2018 // The former chief financial officer of a New Jersey orthopedic care provider is headed to prison for stealing more than $1 million from the company for his personal use.Harry Wolfmuller received a two-year sentence...
May 22 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 begins June 1.All Garden...
May 21 2018 // First, a scraping sound. Then, chaos and panic as a bus taking a group of fifth-graders on a field trip collided with a dump truck and toppled over on a busy highway, killing a student and a teacher and injuring dozens of...
May 21 2018 // New Jersey plastics manufacturer Douglas Stephen Plastics Inc. has been cited for exposing employees to safety and health hazards at its Paterson, N.J., facility. It faces penalties of $435,679.The U.S. Department of...
May 21 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited roofing contractor John Prevete Framing LLC for exposing employees to safety hazards while performing residential...
May 18 2018 // New Jersey Transit had installed a federally mandated emergency braking system on less than 10 percent of its fleet of locomotives nine months before the deadline, according to a progress report covering the first quarter...
May 18 2018 // Preferred Property Program (PPP), a national managing general agency, has named Wayne Dow vice president of programs.Dow will be joining the Bell Works office in Holmdel, N.J., to oversee the marketing of PPP products to...