All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2023 // After a rare tornado warning was issued Tuesday, a strong line of thunderstorms ripped through central New Jersey with powerful winds that caused many trees to be ripped out of the ground in Pennington and West Windsor....
Feb 17 2023 // AmeriTrust subsidiary Star Insurance Co. must pay the $9 million balance of a $10 million settlement in the death of a 12-year old boy who died after a trench he dug on a Long Branch, New Jersey beach collapsed on him.Star...
Feb 16 2023 // There will be a jury retrial on allocation of liability in a New Jersey workers’ compensation premium fraud case won by Liberty Insurance Corp. against a construction firm.The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled yesterday...
Feb 3 2023 // A New Jersey beach town that defied state environmental authorities and fixed its dunes that were seriously eroded by a storm can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to recover $21 million it spent bulking up its shoreline, but...
Feb 2 2023 // A federal judge has halted a New Jersey law allowing the state attorney general to bring civil lawsuits against the gun industry in that state.U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi granted a preliminary injunction against...
Feb 2 2023 // The New Jersey Department of Insurance has given Honeycomb Insurance approval to sell policies statewide.The technology-based managing general agent (MGA) serves the commercial real estate market and will offer insurance...
Jan 24 2023 // Union Bay Acquisition, an aggregator of insurance agencies agent based in Princeton, New Jersey, has acquired Franchino Agency, Inc. Hillsborough, New Jersey. Terms were not disclosed. Franchino Agency, headed by Gabe...
Jan 17 2023 // POMPTON LAKES, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey house where smoke had been reported exploded with volunteer firefighters inside, injuring five of them and sending two to a hospital for treatment of burns, authorities said.The...
Jan 11 2023 // Suggesting that New Jersey’s recent concealed carry law infringes on the public’s Second Amendment rights, a federal judge on Monday put a temporary hold on the legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court...
Jan 11 2023 // NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A beach town that is defying New Jersey’s order not to shore up its eroding sand dunes is suing the state for $21 million.That’s how much North Wildwood says it spent over the past...
Jan 5 2023 // A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that a New Jersey property owner is not entitled to insurance coverage for a shooting because it never disclosed it owned the banquet hall where the shooting took place on its two...
Jan 4 2023 // Atlanta-based physician insurer MagMutual Insurance Co reports it has .has completed its acquisition of MDAdvantage Insurance Co. of New Jersey.The deal received final corporate approval and regulatory approval by the New...
Dec 28 2022 // Grohs Schrager Hampson Aviation Insurance reports that it acquired Wings Agency of Hainesport, New Jersey on December 22, 2022. Wings Agency was founded by Hobart “Bud” Montee over half a century ago. His...
Dec 27 2022 // New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed an overhaul to the rules to get a firearm carry permit, legislation that was spurred by this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.“While we are...
Dec 21 2022 // New Jersey lawmakers gave final approval Monday to legislation overhauling rules to get a firearm carry permit after this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanded gun rights.The Democrat-led Senate passed the...
Dec 14 2022 // Plymouth Rock Home Assurance Names Bishop as Vice President and Chief Marketing OfficerPlymouth Rock Home Assurance Corp. recently appointed Peter Bishop as vice president and chief marketing officer. Bishop joins Boston,...
Dec 13 2022 // Keystone Insurers Group, the fourth largest insurance agency network, has agreed to merge New Jersey Agents Alliance (NJAA) into its nationally ranked network.Keystone said NJAA’s 22 owners/members unanimously...
Dec 12 2022 // NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A sand storm at the Jersey shore is escalating.New Jersey is suing a coastal town that repaired beach erosion from a fall storm in defiance of a state order not to do so. And the town, North...
Dec 9 2022 // TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The German chemical company BASF will restore damaged natural resources at a notorious Superfund site where decades or pollution and illegal dumping caused vast contamination of the environment,...
Nov 28 2022 // BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Up to 2.4 million trees would be cut down as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New Jersey forest heralded as a unique environmental treasure.New Jersey...