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Lockton Affinity to Pay $1M for Administering Carry Guard Insurance in New Jersey
Sep 6 2019 // Lockton Affinity LLC has agreed to pay a $1 million fine as part of a consent order with The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance for administering a National Rifle Association-sponsored insurance program in...
Officials Say Woman Stole $28K Diamond Ring from New Jersey Costco
Sep 5 2019 // Authorities say a woman stole a $28,000 diamond ring from a New Jersey Costco store by replacing it with a much cheaper ring she had stolen from a different Costco. Izaebela Kolano is facing a theft charge. Authorities say...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Hires DellaCroce to Healthcare Practice in New Jersey
Aug 26 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global leader in insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services, has hired Anthony DellaCroce to its team in New Jersey as an area vice president for the Healthcare Practice,...
New Jersey Woman Gets Two Years in Compound Drug Fraud Scheme
Aug 22 2019 // A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in a widespread fraud scheme involving public employees and compound prescription drugs. Kristie Masucci appeared before a judge in Camden on...
Hub International Hires New Jersey’s Allain, Acquires His Book of Business
Aug 19 2019 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage, has hired disability insurance specialist Brian Allain and acquired his book of business. Based in Paramus, N.J., Allain provides group and executive disability...
Cook Maran Hires Patterson as a Client Advisor in New Jersey
Aug 14 2019 // Cook Maran, a Prime Risk partner, headquartered in Melville, N.Y., recently hired Eric Patterson as a client advisor. He will operate out of the Cook Maran location in Fair Lawn, N.J. Patterson was previously a...
New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Landlord Not Liable for Infant Burned by Radiator
Aug 8 2019 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled that a landlord can’t be held responsible for burns an infant suffered rolling from a bed onto a scalding radiator. The 5-2 decision issued July 31 means the landlord...
Judges May Be Reaching Limit with Copyright Profiteering by Pornography Sellers
Aug 6 2019 // Pornography producers and sellers account for the lion’s share of copyright-infringement lawsuits in the U.S. — and judges may have seen enough. The courts are cracking down on porn vendors that file thousands...
Nearly Seven Years After Storm, New Life for Sandy Damages Claim in New Jersey
Aug 2 2019 // A claim for damages from Superstorm Sandy that has been rejected several times by the state of New Jersey got another chance from a divided state Supreme Court on Monday. In a 4-3 ruling, the high court said an arbitrator...
More Than 67K Still Without Electricity in New Jersey Following Storms
Jul 25 2019 // More than 67,000 homes and businesses in New Jersey are still without electricity two days after a line of thunderstorms downed trees and power lines. Most are Jersey Central Power and Light customers in Monmouth and Ocean...
Construction Crane Collapses on House, Apartment Building in New Jersey
Jul 24 2019 // Strong winds may be to blame for the collapse of a construction crane in New Jersey. The crane came down onto a house and an apartment building across from Rutgers University in New Brunswick on Sunday night. News 12 New...
Powerful Storms Leave Many Without Power in New Jersey
Jul 24 2019 // Crews are working to restore electricity for hundreds of thousands of people in New Jersey after powerful storms blew across the state. Utilities say 246,193 homes and businesses were without service Tuesday morning. At...
Court Orders New Jury to Review $1.8M Award in New Jersey Transit Bus Attack
Jul 22 2019 // New Jersey Transit may not be solely responsible for a $1.8 million jury award to a woman injured when a fellow bus passenger hit her with a bottle, a court has ruled. A state appeals court ruled this week that liability...
New Jersey Man Charged in Murders Facing Insurance Fraud Charge
Jul 18 2019 // A New Jersey man charged with killing his brother and the brother’s wife and two children is facing a new charge of insurance fraud. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office refused to give any details of the...
Plymouth Rock Assurance to Acquire New Jersey’s Rider Insurance Company
Jul 17 2019 // Plymouth Rock Assurance has agreed to expand its investment in the motorcycle insurance segment with the acquisition of Rider Insurance Company, subject to regulatory approvals. A New Jersey-based motorcycle insurance...
New Jersey Judge Says Lifeguard Can’t Be Sued Over Beach Collision
Jul 16 2019 // A New Jersey judge has ruled that a lifeguard who collided with a woman as he ran to cover a vacated lifeguard stand is protected by state’s Good Samaritan Act. The woman had sued North Wildwood, its beach patrol and...
Brown & Brown Metro Acquires Assets of New Jersey’s Innovative Risk Solutions
Jul 16 2019 // Brown & Brown Metro LLC has acquired substantially all of the assets of Innovative Risk Solutions Inc. Innovative Risk Solutions was founded in 2004 by sole shareholder Sean Gormley with the goal of providing employee...
Court Blocks Trump Rule on Employer Religious Exemption for Contraceptive Coverage
Jul 15 2019 // A federal appeals court upheld a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing rules that allow more employers to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives to women. The three-judge panel of the...
U.S. Opens Criminal Probe Into J&J Denials of Cancer Risks from Baby Powder
Jul 15 2019 // The U.S. Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation into whether Johnson & Johnson lied to the public about the possible cancer risks of its talcum powder, people with knowledge of the matter said. The...
Sedgwick Signs Agreement to Acquire New Jersey’s York Risk Services Group
Jul 10 2019 // Sedgwick, a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business products, has signed an agreement to acquire York Risk Services Group. York is a Jersey City, N.J.-headquartered provider of claims...
