All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2017 // A hotel manager stands accused of stealing more than $1 million from his boss, including draining a $600,000 insurance annuity belonging to the victim. State authorities say Vikas Mehta was recently indicted on charges of...
Mar 14 2017 // A late-winter storm is about to bury the eastern U.S. in snow.Airlines have canceled thousands of flights, wholesale power prices surged and natural gas futures rallied as the storm prepared to spin up the Atlantic Coast,...
Mar 7 2017 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., acquired Coverage Administrators Inc. of New York, N.Y. on February 1, 2017. Coverage Administrators Inc. has been...
Mar 6 2017 // A federal judge in New Jersey recently dismissed a long-running lawsuit accusing Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.’s investment management unit of overcharging investors in six mutual funds, following a rare...
Mar 6 2017 // More than a year after a law was signed requiring them, child-detection sensors are still not installed on most new school buses because regulations on how to implement it have not been approved.Gov. Chris Christie signed...
Mar 6 2017 // A recently passed bipartisan bill in New Jersey has brought good news to small businesses that want to participate on public construction projects.Senate Bill 123, signed by Gov. Chris Christie on Jan. 4, introduces a new...
Mar 1 2017 // York Risk Services Group (York), a Parsippany, N.J.-based national provider of claims management, managed care, specialized loss adjusting, alternative risk programs, pool administration and other insurance services, has...
Feb 20 2017 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Givaudan Fragrances Corporation (Fragrances) in a $500 million insurance coverage lawsuit against Aetna Casualty & Surety Company and additional insurers named as...
Feb 14 2017 // Relatives of three people who died when the sand at a New Jersey beach gave way beneath their feet begged a judge to permanently close the beach, saying it’s only a matter of time before someone else dies...
Feb 13 2017 // It’s now legal for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate in New Jersey.Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Friday signed off on a measure approved by lawmakers in December to regulate the services and...
Feb 6 2017 // Authorities say a fast-moving fire has destroyed most of a luxury apartment complex that was about to open to residents.But it’s not yet clear what caused the fire at the Avalon apartments in Maplewood, N.J. The...
Feb 3 2017 // The lasting effects of Superstorm Sandy continue to wash across New Jersey, evident on a century-old railroad bridge that nearly became a casualty of the ferocious October 2012 onslaught.The storm surge from the Atlantic...
Feb 2 2017 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Givaudan Fragrances Corporation (Fragrances) in a $500 million insurance coverage lawsuit against Aetna Casualty & Surety Company and additional insurers named as...
Jan 27 2017 // New Jersey Transit faces a widening examination of its safety practices after federal regulators discovered hundreds of potential work-hour violations, including altered duty logs and shifts longer than permitted.Federal...
Jan 25 2017 // A recently passed bipartisan bill in New Jersey has brought good news to small businesses that want to participate on public construction projects.Senate Bill 123, signed by Governor Chris Christie on January 4, introduces...
Jan 23 2017 // A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by taxi and limo companies against the city of Newark over what they claim is preferential treatment given to ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft.The judge ruled Thursday that...
Jan 19 2017 // A beach town is using blunt legal arguments to resist a demand that it permanently close a section of beach where a man plunged into an inlet and drowned when the sand gave way beneath his feet.North Wildwood acknowledges...
Jan 17 2017 // A southern New Jersey man has filed a lawsuit against ride-sharing giant Uber that alleges he was assaulted by a driver who refused to take him home from a holiday party in Philadelphia.The federal lawsuit states that...
Jan 17 2017 // Republican Governor Chris Christie said that he will focus in his final year in office on New Jersey’s drug epidemic, promising to limit the supply of opioid drugs doctors can initially prescribe and seeking...
Jan 13 2017 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., completed its 19th business acquisition on January 1, 2017 with the acquisition of A Berne Insurance based in Old Bridge,...