All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2013 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance announced Wednesday that the department approved Lumerica Insurance Company, a subsidiary of BASF Americas Corporation, to operate as a captive insurer in New Jersey.The...
Feb 6 2013 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday the National Flood Insurance Program’s handling of claims in New Jersey has been “a disgrace,” complaining that the program has been far too slow to resolve...
Feb 5 2013 // Esther Tauscher stood outside her Staten Island, N.Y., home, leafing through boxes of family photos that had been steeped in storm water. She paused to point out life events — her honeymoon, holding her baby boy in a...
Feb 4 2013 // New Jersey officials are warning would-be car buyers to be careful about buying vehicles that may have been damaged by Superstorm Sandy.The state’s motor vehicle commission has seen a near 6,000 percent increase in...
Jan 28 2013 // A long-delayed $50.5 billion aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy cleared the Senate on Monday, three months after the storm destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in coastal New York,...
Jan 28 2013 // A national insurance association is applauding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to adopt new advisory flood maps issued last month by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and implement more stringent...
Jan 28 2013 // Although demand surge was an issue for the property/casualty industry following a trio of hurricanes in 2005, for Superstorm Sandy the demand-surge impact is minimal so far, an expert said recently.There has only been a...
Jan 28 2013 // In New Jersey, some medical provider groups and trial lawyers are continuing to mount a legal challenge to new motor vehicle personal injury protection (PIP) regulations.On Jan. 3, New Jersey’s Superior Court denied...
Jan 24 2013 // American Collectors Insurance, a Cherry Hill, N.J.-based national provider of insurance for collector vehicles and collectibles, combined its online sales and service department with its phone sales and service department....
Jan 23 2013 // Risk Partners Inc., a provider of specialty workers’ compensation and auto liability placements and niche program business offerings, named Tripp Craig as its vice president of business development. Craig has over 25...
Jan 21 2013 // Irene Sobolov believes the first floor of her house in Hoboken, N.J., is just that. The federal government and her insurance company say it’s a basement.The semantics, Sobolov has learned, are very expensive. Sobolov...
Jan 18 2013 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the Hurricane Sandy aid package Congress approved Tuesday will help expedite rebuilding after the superstorm, but he poked federal lawmakers for being “a little late to the...
Jan 17 2013 // The New Jersey Assembly’s financial institutions and insurance committee advanced a bill that would include “reverse rate evasion” as a form of insurance fraud. The bill, A2204 — introduced by the...
Jan 17 2013 // The New Jersey Assembly’s financial institutions and insurance committee gave approval Monday, Jan. 14, to a recently introduced bill that seeks to make it easier for homeowners to understand what their policy covers...
Jan 16 2013 // The New Jersey shore town of Bradley Beach came through Superstorm Sandy in better shape than many of its neighbors that sustained serious to catastrophic damage from the waves and storm surge.N.J. Gov. Chris Christie...
Jan 15 2013 // The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved $50.5 billion in long-delayed federal disaster aid to victims of Superstorm Sandy, but not before Republicans flexed their budget-cutting muscle to strike some spending...
Jan 14 2013 // Last month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency released advisory flood maps covering 194 municipalities in coastal areas in New Jersey. Here’s a look at what they mean, in question and answer form.Q. What do the...
Jan 14 2013 // P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa, Rancho...
Jan 13 2013 // New Jersey Transit incorrectly used federal government software that otherwise could have warned officials against a disastrous decision to leave hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment in a low-lying rail yard...
Jan 8 2013 // While Superstorm Sandy did highly visible damage to homes, boardwalks and roads, it also walloped the Northeastern fishing industry, whose workers are hoping for a small piece of any future disaster assistance that...