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#1 New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 6.9% for 2025

Oct 30 2024 // Correction: A earlier version of this story had the wrong percentage in the headline. Insurance Journal regrets the error.New Jersey Commissioner of Banking and Insurance Justin Zimmerman has approved a 6.9% statewide...

#2 15 Homes Evacuated as Crews Battle Another Wildfire in New Jersey

Nov 8 2024 // The latest forest fire to break out in New Jersey spurred authorities to evacuate more than a dozen homes Wednesday as crews worked to contain the blaze, but no injuries or property damage has been reported.The New Jersey...

#3 World Insurance Acquires New Jersey’s United Counties Insurance

Nov 14 2024 // National broker World Insurance Associates reports that it acquired the business of United Counties Insurance Group of Old Bridge, New Jersey on August 1, 2024. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.United Counties...

#4 World Insurance Adds Skylands Insurance Group of New Jersey

Nov 13 2024 // National insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports it acquired the business of Skylands Insurance Group of Flanders, New Jersey on August 1, 2024. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Skylands was founded...

#5 Risk Strategies Acquires Felsen Insurance of New Jersey

Nov 13 2024 // North American specialty insurance brokerage Risk Strategies reports it has acquired Felsen Insurance Services, Inc., a New Jersey-based agency offering commercial and personal property/casualty insurance. Terms of the...

#6 Fire Crews on Both US Coasts Battle Wildfires; 1 Death in New York-New Jersey Fire

Nov 12 2024 // Fire crews on both coasts of the United States continued battling wildfires on Sunday, including a blaze in New York and New Jersey that killed a parks employee and another in Southern California that destroyed more than...

#7 New Jersey Bakery Fined $385K After OSHA Says Workers Still Exposed to Hazards

Nov 22 2024 // A New Jersey commercial baker in Paterson faces $385,221 in federal penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer failed to correct workplace safety hazards identified in 2023.The...

#8 Second Teen Charged in New Jersey Forest Fire; New York Hopes Rain Douses Blaze

Nov 21 2024 // A second teenager was charged with intentionally setting a wildfire in a New Jersey suburb of Philadelphia as “significant” rainfall was expected to help douse a stubborn wildfire burning on the New Jersey-New...