All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 2 2015 // Jeff Slivka New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a Hamilton, New Jersey-based specialty intermediary for environmental and construction-related professional liability insurance, has promoted Jeff Slivka to president, while...
Oct 30 2015 // Superstorm Sandy in late October 2013 was Ohio’s sixth costliest natural disaster in recent history from an insured loss standpoint, an insurance trade group says.Moving inland after devastating parts of the East...
Oct 30 2015 // Three years ago, Superstorm Sandy slammed the New Jersey shore, destroying homes, splintering boardwalks, wrecking businesses and displacing thousands of people. Three years later, several thousand still cannot get back...
Oct 30 2015 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent agency based in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, has hired Cathy Saporito as senior vice president, head of Personal Lines.Saporito joins World Insurance Associates from AIG, where...
Oct 29 2015 // Some victims of Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey said they feel New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has forgotten about them in his pursuit of the presidency.About a dozen protesters intended to pitch tents and camp out across...
Oct 28 2015 // The premium for a mid-level plan offered on the federal government’s health insurance exchange will be up by 5 percent in New Jersey in 2016.But premiums will be lower, as expected, for people choosing a new plan...
Oct 27 2015 // A New Jersey neurologist has been charged with allegedly paying a “runner” to bring him patients and then falsifying the treatment provided to the patients on claims to the insurance company, New Jersey Acting...
Oct 26 2015 // New Jersey’s Congressional delegation members sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Oct. 23, expressing “significant concerns with the methodology” of the Flood Insurance Rate...
Oct 26 2015 // Volkswagen AG is maneuvering to steer hundreds of class-action lawsuits over its emissions-cheating software to the court nearest its current U.S. headquarters or to Detroit, its former location.The automaker asked a panel...
Oct 19 2015 // A Union County, New Jersey, man and three others were indicted on Oct. 14 for allegedly orchestrating a staged auto accident in Paterson, New Jersey, in 2012 and later seeking more than $48,000 in medical payouts from his...
Oct 19 2015 // Johnson & Johnson defeated a lawsuit claiming it had improperly designed its Tylenol pain reliever in the first case to go to trial over the link between the widely used over-the-counter drug and liver damage,...
Oct 19 2015 // A new study looking back over 1,000 years finds the flooding risk along the New York and New Jersey coasts increased greatly after industrialization, and major storms that once might have occurred every 500 years could...
Oct 14 2015 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency should recover nearly half of the $7 million grant it gave to a New Jersey shore town to fix its boardwalk after it was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, a government audit found.Spring...
Oct 9 2015 // Corporate Synergies, a property/casualty brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, hired Liisa Granfors-Hunt as director of account management.In her new role, Granfors-Hunt will...
Oct 2 2015 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that doctors don’t have to tell patients whether they have malpractice insurance for surgeries they’re recommending.The Record reports the unanimous ruling made Tuesday...
Oct 2 2015 // While forecasters haven’t ruled out a U.S. East Coast strike by the Category 4 hurricane pounding the Bahamas with heavy rains and raging surf, more projections are showing Joaquin will miss, the National Hurricane...
Sep 30 2015 // A new study looking back over 1,000 years finds the flooding risk along the New York and New Jersey coasts increased greatly after industrialization, and major storms that once might have occurred every 500 years could...
Sep 25 2015 // Corporate Synergies, a property/casualty brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, hired Alex Alday as vice president of account management.Alday recently worked at Lyons Companies...
Sep 8 2015 // When BASF SE acquired Engelhard Corp. nine years ago for $5 billion, executives unknowingly inherited a ticking legal time bomb.It all began decades ago over the seemingly mundane industrial product talc, used in...
Sep 7 2015 // Firefighters in New Jersey are calling for tougher fire codes in the wake of a blaze that destroyed 240 units and left about 500 people homeless at an apartment complex in Edgewater, New Jersey. Leaders from several...