All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2014 // Risk Strategies Co., a national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced it has acquired Singer Nelson Charlmers, a Teaneck, N.J.-based insurance brokerage firm providing coverages in...
Jan 21 2014 // The Democratic mayor of a New Jersey town severely flooded by Superstorm Sandy said Sunday, Jan. 19, that she was told an ultimatum tying recovery funds to her support for a prime real estate project came directly from...
Jan 17 2014 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing of the acquisition of Oscar & Associates, an employee benefit wholesale broker in West Caldwell, N.J. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Oscar & Associates...
Jan 16 2014 // Housing advocates and civil rights groups in New Jersey are calling for more help for renters and greater transparency for the state’s next allocation of federal Sandy recovery funds.Fair Share Housing Center and...
Jan 15 2014 // A Newark, New Jersey, police officer who had his sport utility vehicle set on fire and then filed a false insurance claim has been spared a prison term. Essex County prosecutors in New Jersey say 41-year-old Johnathan...
Jan 15 2014 // New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a Bordentown, N.J.-based environmental and construction-related professional liability resource for insurance agents and brokers, has named Mara Majeeda as an account manager within the...
Jan 13 2014 // New Jersey Governor Chris Christie faces a federal investigation over his use of $25 million of Hurricane Sandy relief money for a commercial he starred in promoting tourism at the New Jersey shore.The inspector...
Jan 13 2014 // New Jersey’s mediation program to assist residents with unresolved insurance claims related to Superstorm Sandy has recovered $3.42 million for consumers since the program was launched last May, New Jersey Gov. Chris...
Jan 10 2014 // The primary owner and operator of a third-party insurance administrator in New Jersey has been sentenced to seven years in state prison after being convicted at trial of stealing approximately half a million dollars from a...
Jan 10 2014 // Fifteen months after Superstorm Sandy pounded New Jersey, the state has distributed nearly half the $1.8 billion in initial funding it received from the federal government, the state’s community affairs commissioner...
Jan 9 2014 // A southern New Jersey man has admitted he provided a false insurance certificate and worked as an unregistered contractor following Superstorm Sandy, even after authorities revoked his registration Monmouth County...
Jan 8 2014 // New homes in New Jersey might need to have fire sprinklers.A Senate committee on Monday approved the measure. It awaits a vote in the chamber. The measure would apply to newly constructed homes. It would not apply to...
Jan 8 2014 // Cleveland-based CBIZ Inc. announced that it acquired substantially all the assets of Centric Insurance Agency in New Providence, New Jersey, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Established in 1994, Centric Insurance Agency is an...
Jan 7 2014 // A New Jersey insurance broker and the former mayor of Toms River, N.J., were each sentenced Monday for separate schemes involving officials of Toms River and the former insurance broker for the Toms River regional school...
Jan 7 2014 // Prudential Financial Inc. agreed to dismiss its claims that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. engaged in fraud and racketeering in selling $375 million of residential mortgage-backed securities, a court order shows.U.S. District...
Jan 3 2014 // U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Thursday joined residents and local officials in Brick, N.J., to call on Congress to pass the Homeowner’s Flood Insurance Affordability Act.The bipartisan, bicameral bill,...
Jan 2 2014 // Chased by Hurricane Sandy from their waterfront homes, a large number of older residents in Little Egg Harbor Township, N.J., are finding new homes among the township’s five 55-and-older developments.The migration of...
Dec 30 2013 // With New Year’s Eve known to be one of the biggest party nights of the year, the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety is reminding New Jerseyans to ensure they have a safe and sober way to get home should...
Dec 27 2013 // As a second New Year since Superstorm Sandy approaches, many coastal residents are still waiting for New York, New Jersey and New York City to distribute billions of federal dollars that were intended to go directly to...
Dec 23 2013 // USI Insurance Services announced today that James P. Kane will join the firm as senior vice president of personal lines effective Jan. 1, 2014. Kane will be responsible for USI’s nationwide personal insurance...