All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2011 // New Jersey will be getting almost $50 million in federal funds to help bolster the state’s long-term flood protections.Emergency Management authorities announced Tuesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Jun 30 2011 // The husband of an obese woman who died of a blood clot after working long hours at her home office is eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits, a New Jersey appeals court ruled in a case that raised...
Jun 29 2011 // High Point Auto Insurance, Palisades Insurance and Teachers’ Insurance Plan of New Jersey all have a new brand name, Plymouth Rock Assurance.Over the next several months, current High Point, Palisades and...
Jun 27 2011 // Short Hills, N.J.-based insurance broker Bollinger Inc. has acquired the Cranford, N.J. agency, The Property and Casualty Group (PCG). Terms were not disclosed. PCG It sells commercial and personal insurance in New Jersey,...
Jun 23 2011 // Coast Guard figures show New Jersey bucked a national trend of record low recreational boating deaths in 2010.Eight people died in boating accidents in the Garden State last year, two more than in 2009. There have been no...
Jun 21 2011 // A New Jersey fishing boat owner is charged in a botched attempt to sink his vessel to collect insurance money.A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charges 38-year-old Scott Tran of Cherry Hill, and three other men....
Jun 20 2011 // The Evesham, New Jersey Township Planning Board has approved a proposal to build a heliport despite objections from a nearby hospital and residents.Permission for the landing area was requested by the insurance firm...
Jun 20 2011 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled that a convicted drunken driver has the right to sue the bar that served him.The court’s 5-2 ruling last month stems from a 2006 motorcycle crash in which Frederick Voss had...
Jun 9 2011 // A blogger sued for defamation over comments posted on an Internet message board is not entitled to the same protections as a journalist, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.The court said that blogger Shellee...
Jun 6 2011 // Crump, Self Funded AlternativesWholesaler broker Crump Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Self Funded Alternatives, an insurance intermediary specializing in self-insured workers’ compensation programs. SFA is...
Jun 3 2011 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled a convicted drunken driver has the right to sue the bar that served him.Wednesday’s 5-2 ruling stems from a 2006 motorcycle crash in which Frederick Voss had a blood-alcohol...
May 27 2011 // Confie Seguros has acquired two New Jersey insurance brokerages – Royale Insurance and First Americano Insurance Agency. The agencies’ founder and CEO, Remberto Perez, will continue to serve as head of the two...
May 24 2011 // Investigators say they’ve ruled out arson as the possible cause of a fire that damaged 11 vehicles parked in a southern New Jersey school bus yard. But the cause of Thursday’s fire in Bordentown Township still...
May 23 2011 // A New Jersey insurance broker already charged in a bribery scheme with a former schools superintendent has been indicted on federal election fraud charges. Francis Gartland is accused of scheming with another man to...
May 23 2011 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has nominated a former federal prosecutor who worked for him at the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate state insurance fraud. Ron Chillemi worked for nearly nine years as an...
May 10 2011 // A federal appeals court has ruled that the government doesn’t have to pay the family of a New Jersey sailor killed in a training exercise, even though a lower court found the Navy 80 percent responsible for the...
Apr 15 2011 // The New Jersey Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from ExxonMobil over $7 million awarded to a woman who claimed she got cancer from her husband’s asbestos-laden clothes.A jury in 2008 found Bonnie Anderson had...
Apr 1 2011 // A dwarf couple from southern New Jersey has filed a defamation lawsuit against a cable television channel that used a doctored photo of the pair to spoof reality television shows.Cara and Gibson Reynolds say the sketch —...
Mar 28 2011 // New Jersey, the most densely populated state and home to the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant, created a task force Friday to review safety and emergency response plans at nuclear plants in light of the disaster...
Mar 23 2011 // Lawyers for a majority of the 15 insurance company and broker defendants in a long-running suit accusing them of bid-rigging are scheduled to be in court today outlining a proposed settlement that will cost them about...