All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2014 // Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan was in a coma for days with a traumatic brain injury after a highway crash in which his van was struck from behind by a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. truck five months ago, according to his...
Nov 18 2014 // New Jersey’s Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau announced that the commissioner of banking and insurance has approved a 2.9 percent increase in rates and rating values applicable to New Jersey workers’...
Nov 18 2014 // The legal battle over an accidental shooting at a Wild West theme park in New Jersey that left an actor partially paralyzed has ended with a settlement of nearly $2 million.The New Jersey Herald reports the actor, Scott...
Nov 17 2014 // The truck driver charged in a New Jersey highway crash that injured comedian-actor Tracy Morgan and killed another man filed a request on Nov. 14 to delay a federal lawsuit while his criminal case proceeds in state...
Nov 17 2014 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency should investigate allegations that insurance companies handling Superstorm Sandy flood damage claims are manipulating them to shortchange victims, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said on...
Nov 17 2014 // Three men have been sentenced in New Jersey last Friday for running an international car theft scheme from 2007 to 2009. The scheme resulted in high-end cars being stolen in New York and then routed into New Jersey where...
Nov 12 2014 // Selective Insurance Group Inc. in Branchville, New Jersey, announced the following appointments by its subsidiary, Selective Insurance Company of America.Martin Hollander to senior vice president, chief audit executive....
Nov 10 2014 // When Hurricane Sandy roared through New Jersey two years ago, it not only tore up the shoreline. It also pushed out much of the middle class.From Ocean City to Toms River, one-story cottages and bungalows damaged by the...
Nov 7 2014 // Authorities in Monmouth County, New Jersey, have accused a psychologist of submitting approximately 120 fraudulent insurance claims totaling more than $15,000. Prosecutors have charged 62-year-old Edward Merski of Old...
Nov 7 2014 // Hub International Limited announced that its subsidiary Hub International Northeast Limited has acquired the stock of Fotek Insurance Agency Inc., a New Jersey-based employee benefits brokerage. Terms of the acquisition...
Nov 6 2014 // Republican Tom MacArthur has won New Jersey’s most closely watched and expensive U.S. House race, defeating Democrat Aimee Belgard.The 3rd District seat was open as Republican Jon Runyan decided not to seek...
Nov 4 2014 // A New Jersey resident pleaded guilty to orchestrating two auto accident staging scams in 2010 that resulted in insurance payouts of $179,210 for medical treatment and personal injury settlement proceeds, according to...
Nov 3 2014 // A new study has found that New Jersey’s Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) decal provision is associated with a sustained two-year decline in crash rates among intermediate (i.e., probationary) teen drivers.The study,...
Oct 30 2014 // Two ambitious governors — one Republican, one Democrat — known for their no-nonsense, take-charge style in a calamity have set off a furor with their aggressive handling of the Ebola crisis, and how it plays...
Oct 28 2014 // State leaders in New York and New Jersey are at odds with scientists over Ebola as the states’ governors back 21-day quarantines for medical workers returning from West Africa, while the nation’s top...
Oct 27 2014 // After Superstorm Sandy, officials in New York and New Jersey vowed to make sure the unprecedented destruction wouldn’t happen again.Two years later, would it? There are some concrete signs of tougher protections,...
Oct 27 2014 // Two years after Superstorm Sandy, would New York and New Jersey be better protected and prepared if such a storm struck again? A sampling of work on some key issues:• Flood Protection New York City: Many projects on the...
Oct 20 2014 // A New Jersey contractor who took deposits for work that was never done at two central New Jersey homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy has been sentenced to five years in state prison. Monmouth County prosecutors say the...
Oct 20 2014 // New Jersey Transit, the nation’s third-largest bus, rail and light rail transportation provider, is suing several excess insurers to recoup additional $300 million for Superstorm Sandy losses.NJ Transit says its...
Oct 20 2014 // Ken KobylowskiNew Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski said that among the 470,281 non-flood, Superstorm Sandy-related homeowners, automobile and commercial claims that were filed in New...