All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 4 2016 // The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs alerted consumers that “hoverboards,” one of this past season’s hottest gift items, is being investigated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)...
Dec 29 2015 // An ongoing federal investigation of a New Jersey medical laboratory has netted guilty pleas from more than two dozen doctors, the latest from a physician who admitted taking cash bribes from lab employees.Bret Ostrager,...
Dec 21 2015 // A bill heading to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s desk would prevent mortgage foreclosure for New Jersey homeowners whose houses were damaged by Superstorm Sandy.The bill, which passed the Legislature on Dec. 17,...
Dec 21 2015 // Markel Corp. in Richmond, Virginia, reported that Thomas S. Gayner, president and chief investment officer, and Richard R. Whitt III, president and co-chief operating officer, will serve as co-chief executive officers of...
Dec 10 2015 // Christopher Iu New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced the appointment of Christopher Iu to be the state’s acting insurance fraud prosecutor. Iu succeeds Ron Chillemi who is joining law...
Dec 9 2015 // The sea is rising. The land is sinking. Entire mid-Atlantic communities are anchored in between, bookended by certain disaster unless a way is found to turn back the tide and save the shore.No one knows how to fix the fix...
Dec 7 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed into law A-4144/S-2755 on Nov. 9. The law will take effect on May 7, 2016, 180 days after the governor’s signing. The new law amends the “N.J. Insurance Producer Licensing...
Dec 4 2015 // Meeker Sharkey & Hurley, a Cranford, New Jersey-based provider of employee benefits and insurance services, has hired Richard Ambrose as senior vice president, Employee Benefits Practice leader. In his new role,...
Dec 3 2015 // Larry Nisenson Plymouth Rock Assurance has promoted Larry Nisenson to president of the Plymouth Rock Prudential Agent Division. He is based in Red Bank, New Jersey. Plymouth Rock’s Prudential Agent Division supports...
Nov 24 2015 // A Long Island, New York, doctor has been sentenced to prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving a New Jersey lab.A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, sentenced Brett Halper of Glen Head, New York, to 46 months in...
Nov 23 2015 // Selective Insurance Group Inc. in Branchville, New Jersey, announced the following appointments by its subsidiary, Selective Insurance Company of America.Jamie Beal to assistant vice president, director of Communications....
Nov 18 2015 // New Jersey’s Democratic-controlled Legislature took a step toward a showdown with Gov. Chris Christie over legalized marijuana on Monday.A state Senate panel convened a hearing on legalizing the drug, and a leading...
Nov 18 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday he would veto a bill that that would establish a New Jersey driver’s license for residents who cannot prove they are in the United States legally, dashing the hopes of...
Nov 17 2015 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in New Jersey were stable from 2010 to 2013, in contrast to rapid growth in the 2008 to 2010 period, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research...
Nov 16 2015 // New Jersey’s Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau said the state’s commissioner of Banking and Insurance has approved a filing providing for no change in the overall level of workers’ compensation...
Nov 16 2015 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a New York-domiciled multi-line property/casualty insurance holding company, announced that its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company, was granted approval to write P/C insurance in Connecticut...
Nov 16 2015 // New Jersey’s Congressional delegation members sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), expressing “significant concerns with the methodology” of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps...
Nov 11 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed into law A-4144/S-2755 on Monday. The law goes into effect 180 days after the governor’s signing. The measure had passed the Assembly on May 14 and the Senate on Sept. 24. The...
Nov 10 2015 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a New York-domiciled multi-line property/casualty insurance holding company, announced that its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company, was granted approval to write P/C insurance in New Jersey...
Nov 2 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie again defended his administration’s handling of the recovery from Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, the third anniversary of the storm, acknowledging mistakes were made but emphasizing they...