All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2009 // A fast-moving forest fire burned more than 200 acres in southern New Jersey on Saturday, but there were no reports of injuries or homes being damaged. Authorities said the fire, which broke out in the Pinelands National...
Apr 20 2009 // A New Jersey lawyer is suing to overturn a Garden State law that will require drivers younger than 21 to display identifying decals on their vehicle license plates.Attorney Gregg D. Trautmann of Rockaway called the law...
Apr 17 2009 // Would you drive any differently if you knew there was a teenager behind the wheel of the car in front of you?You might find out soon. A first-in-the-nation law in New Jersey will require new drivers ages 21 and younger to...
Apr 13 2009 // A worker who fell nearly 40 feet into a silo filled with flour at a New Jersey business apparently escaped with only minor injuries. The unidentified man was in the silo at the Kellogg USA plant in Winslow Township for...
Apr 7 2009 // New Jersey regulators on have temporarily suspended the medical license of a doctor who health officials suspect is linked to a hepatitis B outbreak.Nearly 3,000 of Dr. Parvez Dara’s patients have been warned to get...
Apr 6 2009 // Top 100 Agency ProfileRanking No.: 14 Agency Name: Bollinger Insurance Inc. Headquarters: Short Hills, N.J. Year Founded: 1933 Additional Locations: Princeton, Moorestown, Vineland, N.J.; New York City, N.Y.; Philadelphia,...
Mar 19 2009 // A New Jersey judge Tuesday denied a request to certify a class action against Merck & Co. on behalf of consumers who sought reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses for their use of the withdrawn pain drug Vioxx.The...
Mar 17 2009 // National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (“NCIC”) specializes in general liability insurance for licensed residential and commercial general and artisan contractors. NCIC writes the...
Mar 11 2009 // A former New Jersey lawmaker who once headed the state assembly’s key committee on insurance issues has pleaded not guilty to child pornography charges.Prosecutors say Neil Cohen has admitted viewing child porn, but...
Mar 9 2009 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court said a passenger in a stolen vehicle can’t collect medical benefits under an auto insurance policy, even if the person doesn’t know the vehicle was stolen. Last week’s 5-2...
Mar 9 2009 // A jury in central New Jersey has awarded more than $11 million to the family of a man who died after having his wisdom teeth removed.Francis Keller of Woodbridge had a genetic condition that caused swelling as a reaction...
Mar 6 2009 // A former Camden City, New Jersey police officer has been sentenced for insurance fraud for falsely claiming that vans used by his patient transportation business were only being driven for personal use, according to state...
Mar 3 2009 // New Jersey transportation officials say a year-old state law banning cell phone use while driving has resulted in nearly 109,000 summonses issued in the past 11 months.That’s almost double the amount of tickets...
Feb 26 2009 // A New Jersey insurance company agreed Tuesday to pay just over $239,000 to settle allegations that it offered improper incentives to a Boston-based brokerage firm.Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s...
Feb 24 2009 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court has denied a drive-by shooting victim’s attempt to have her car insurer reimburse her under uninsured motorist coverage.Camie Livsey was leaving a grocery store in Irvington four...
Feb 22 2009 // Andrew Fotopulos has joined Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. in Providence, Rhode Island as senior vice president. Fotopulos will lead the brokerage’s financial institutional practice. He will...
Feb 19 2009 // For the third time in three weeks, a small earthquake has rattled an area of north-central New Jersey.No damage or injuries were reported from the 2.3 magnitude quake, which was recorded shortly before 1:42 a.m. Wednesday....
Feb 19 2009 // Insurance brokerage Willis Group Holdings has appointed Peter A. Gilbertson as managing partner and growth leader for Willis HRH in New Jersey.Gilbertson will oversee the day-to-day operations of Willis’s brokerage...
Feb 11 2009 // A trade group for New Jersey Insurance Agents is applauding proposal that would let agents collect fees from commercial-lines clients for some specialized services.The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey (PIANJ)...
Feb 9 2009 // Connecticut, New York and New Jersey will share a $22 million federal grant to help financial services workers who are losing their jobs because of the financial crisis on Wall Street. Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell says...