All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2014 // A southern New Jersey pharmacist has admitted paying tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes to physicians for referring pain cream prescriptions, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.Vladimir Kleyman, a 43-year-old...
Oct 15 2014 // Lawley Insurance, an independent agency based in Buffalo, New York, has acquired S. Turtletaub & Sons Inc., an agency in Bayonne, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is part of...
Oct 8 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 8 2014 // New 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 Jersey, 99.4...
Oct 7 2014 // The Trenton Diocese has paid $610,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey man who said he was sexually abused for years as a teen by a priest who headed the diocese’s youth group.Forty-two-year-old Chris Naples...
Oct 6 2014 // New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski advised senior citizens at a recent financial literacy meeting to be wary of insurance and other financial scammers.Kobylowski met with seniors at...
Oct 3 2014 // ANE, Agency Network Exchange LLC, a network of independently owned and operated insurance agencies, has added five new agencies to its New Jersey network. The following New Jersey-based agencies have joined ANE: J.L....
Oct 3 2014 // The New Jersey Assembly passed a measure that would make reverse rate evasion an insurance fraud and provide for civil and criminal penalties. The bill, A 2281, passed the state’s Assembly on Monday and is pending in...
Oct 2 2014 // Insurance data firm Verisk Analytics Inc. said that it has closed its Jersey City, New Jersey, office today due to an electrical problem in the building. Customers are directed to call 1-800-888-4476 or send e-mail to...
Oct 2 2014 // New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is leaning toward eliminating red-light cameras after a five-year test was fraught with glitches and gripes, even as data showed fewer crashes at intersections with the equipment.A pilot...
Oct 1 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it wants to settle a negligence lawsuit by actor-comedian Tracy Morgan, a day after blaming the celebrity for injuries he sustained when his limousine bus was struck by a speeding company...
Sep 29 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is to blame for injuries he sustained in June highway crash because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.Morgan, who was critically injured when the limousine bus he was...
Sep 29 2014 // The jabs and insults that had been confined to campaign commercials and news releases in New Jersey’s close and contentious 3rd District Congressional race were made face-to-face last Friday as the candidates...
Sep 24 2014 // A new study from Plymouth Rock Assurance reveals that virtually all drivers polled have witnessed provocative driving behavior or road rage in New Jersey.Behaviors reported include unsafe and aggressive driving sometimes...
Sep 24 2014 // The owner of an insurance adjusting firm has pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges stemming from a scheme to defraud the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and several insurers.Federal prosecutors say 54-year-old Robert...
Sep 18 2014 // New Jersey has purchased the first of seven flood-damaged homes in East Brunswick under a Superstorm Sandy program.The home on Squire Street was purchased for $193,073, based on pre-Sandy market values from an independent...
Sep 18 2014 // New Jersey will receive $1.28 billion in federal funds to strengthen its transit system against catastrophic storms such as Superstorm Sandy, which brought commuter service to a halt almost two years ago.New Jersey...
Sep 16 2014 // Rebuilding is slow one year after a fire devoured more than four blocks of boardwalk and destroyed more than 50 businesses in two New Jersey shore towns.The boardwalk that was lost on Sept. 12, 2013, has been rebuilt...
Sep 16 2014 // Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s chemical unit agreed to pay $190 million to cover its liability for the cleanup of the Passaic River in northern New Jersey, state officials said.Occidental Chemical is the legal...
Sep 15 2014 // Democrats see New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District as one of their best chances to pick up a House seat in November’s general election in a race full of early spending on accusatory ads, and in which the...