All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2011 // David J. Bresnahan has been named president of Lexington Insurance Co., the surplus lines unit of Chartis Insurance. He is succeeding Peter Eastwood, who is moving into his new role as president and chief executive officer...
Sep 1 2011 // Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devastated by Hurricane Irene but many communities were still under water Wednesday as relief workers battled cut-off roads and raging rivers to...
Sep 1 2011 // As flooding from Hurricane Irene caused heavy damage in New Jersey, federal officials report almost 230,000 property owners in the state have flood insurance.Flooding is not covered by homeowners insurance but by special...
Aug 31 2011 // The only thing worse than getting flooded out of your home once is getting flooded out of it twice. Or, for that matter, over and over again.Margaret Wert bought her Wayne, New Jersey house in 1999, relying on assurances...
Aug 30 2011 // New Jersey and Vermont struggled with their worst flooding in decades Monday, a day after Hurricane Irene slammed an already soaked U.S. Northeast with torrential rain, dragging away homes and submerging neighborhoods...
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene swept along the New Jersey shore early Sunday, knocking down trees, leaving thousands of people without electrical power and causing flooding.New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cautioned residents and...
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds from the federal government might ultimately cover much of this expense.It is too early to estimate the cost of the...
Aug 29 2011 // Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the northeastern United States, where driving rain and flood tides inundated homes and cut power to...
Aug 28 2011 // Hurricane Irene caused between $200 million and $400 million in insured losses in the Carolinas, catastrophe modeling company EQECAT said Sunday, suggesting the storm may have been far less severe than the insurance...
Aug 26 2011 // Parts of the southeastern United States were already experiencing dangerous swells and rip tides Thursday as Hurricane Irene exited the Bahamas. On Friday afternoon, ahead of Hurricane Irene’s forecasted arrival in...
Aug 25 2011 // A New Jersey law barring drivers under 18 from having more than one passenger is in the spotlight after an SUV driven by a 17-year-old and carrying seven teenagers crashed. The driver and three passengers died in last...
Aug 23 2011 // A former New Jersey banking and insurance regulator has been named to the North Jersey Community Bancorp board of directors.Steven M. Goldman, who served as commissioner of banking and insurance under Gov. Jon S. Corzine,...
Aug 22 2011 // A Cumberland County man was sentenced for filing a false vehicle theft claim. Casey M. Wendling, 28, of Millville, was sentenced to five years of probation by Superior Court Judge Benjamin Telsey in Cumberland Countyand...
Aug 17 2011 // The Diocese of Trenton and lawyers for five men who were abused by a New Jersey priest in the 1970s and 1980s said they have reached a seven-figure settlement.The diocese said allegations against the Rev. Ronald Becker,...
Aug 9 2011 // New Jersey proposed a sweeping overhaul last week to its regulations for the personal injury protection component of auto insurance, hoping to curb rising premiums. The changes affect how and what doctors can bill for...
Aug 3 2011 // New Jersey Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Division of Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced that a man from HudsonCounty, N.J. has pleaded guilty to an identity theft scam.According to Acting Insurance...
Jul 28 2011 // State Farm Insurance Company says it plans to reduce the size of a New Jersey operations center, sending about 500 jobs to New York and Pennsylvania.The company said it intends to downsize its Parsippany office over the...
Jul 26 2011 // Some unhappy Allstate Insurance agents who say the insurer controls them like employees even though they are independent contractors are moving to affiliate with a union.The National Association of Professional Allstate...
Jul 25 2011 // Gov. Chris Christie has signed legislation that calls for the phasing in of a sharp increase in the state’s unemployment tax rate.Proponents say that will spare businesses from having to immediately pay a hefty boost...
Jul 19 2011 // New Jersey has approved its first captive insurance company under the new law that became effective in May.The Department of Insurance issued a certificate of authority, effective July 1, to the Prudential Insurance Co. of...