All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 6 2014 // Norman-Spencer Agency Inc., a Dayton, Ohio-based national insurance provider and program administrator, has completed the acquisition of Northern Star Management Inc. Based out of New Jersey since 1997, Northern Star has...
Aug 1 2014 // A northern New Jersey couple had a joint birthday celebration ruined after their city’s sewage test flooded their basement and ruined flooring that was put down the day before.Officials in Clifton, New Jersey,...
Jul 25 2014 // Authorities say a central New Jersey man lied when he claimed he had been carjacked by someone who then crashed his vehicle into several parked cars.Union County prosecutors announced Wednesday that 29-year-old Darwin...
Jul 23 2014 // New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney says newly released reports on the state’s biggest Superstorm Sandy recovery projects are not detailed enough.Gov. Chris Christie’s administration released its first...
Jul 22 2014 // For New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, putting video cameras in new police cars became personal two years ago when he was arrested for drunken driving and video from a camera mounted on a cruiser helped get the charges...
Jul 21 2014 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing of the acquisition of BHB Insurance Services in Toms River, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. USI says BHB is best known for its community associations...
Jul 16 2014 // CED 1976 LLC, a Fairlawn, N.J.-based managing general underwriter, hired Jeff Mills as relationship executive for its Jewelers unBLOCKed product, a proprietary insurance portfolio designed to provide coverage to the...
Jul 16 2014 // Two wealthy New Jersey shore towns that were among the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy nearly two years ago began building a 4-mile-long steel wall last week, an expensive effort that the state says is needed to protect...
Jul 15 2014 // M.L. Ruberton Agency of Hammonton, New Jersey, announced it has joined The Iroquois Group, a network of property/casualty insurance agencies. Founded in 1910, M.L. Ruberton Agency is a family-owned insurance agency...
Jul 14 2014 // Former “Saturday Night Live” star Tracy Morgan has sued Wal-Mart over last month’s highway crash involving one of its drivers that left him seriously injured and a fellow comedian dead.The lawsuit, filed...
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
Jul 9 2014 // Dozens more homeowners in New Jersey have received grants to raise their homes above flood levels in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.Gov. Chris Christie traveled to Keansburg on Monday to announce that 132 more federal...
Jul 7 2014 // Richmond, Virginia-based Markel Corp. has appointed Tim Pasik as managing director, excess and umbrella, for its product line leadership team. He will be based in Markel’s Red Bank, New Jersey, office and report to...
Jul 7 2014 // A lawsuit filed against a New Jersey town and county and the Army Corps of Engineers over the nearly $80 million cleanup of a Raritan Bay Superfund site can proceed, a federal judge ruled last week.U.S. District Judge...
Jul 7 2014 // Eleven states in the eastern U.S. will share $102.7 million in grants from the federal government to protect against future storms, with the greatest amount of funded projects in New Jersey and New York.The U.S. Department...
Jul 3 2014 // A New Jersey appeals court recently affirmed that a worker was bound by a contractual provision, contained in an employment application, which shortened the two-year statute of limitations for filing claims against his...
Jul 1 2014 // Environmentalists say New Jersey’s proposed new rules for coastal development would place more people and property at risk from future storms like Superstorm Sandy.At the first of three public hearings on the...
Jun 27 2014 // Anthony R. Slimowicz is joining Crum & Forster as senior vice president and chief claims officer. He will report to Doug Libby, chairman and CEO of C&F, and will be based at the company’s headquarters in...
Jun 26 2014 // ICW Group Insurance Cos., a multiline property/casualty insurer based in San Diego, Calif., announced it has begun writing workers’ compensation insurance in Georgia, Indiana and New Jersey. ICW Group said its...
Jun 24 2014 // The New Jersey Senate has failed in its effort to override Gov. Chris Christie’s conditional veto of the Superstorm Sandy “Bill of Rights” legislation.New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney pushed...