Latest New Jersey Headlines
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New Jersey Utility Fined $300K for Violations that Caused Explosion
Nov 3 2016 // New Jersey state officials have fined a utility company $300,000 for safety violations that led to a home explosion and fire last year. The fine against South Jersey Gas was announced Tuesday by the New Jersey Board of...
New Jersey’s Selective Insurance Group Hires Wilcox to Succeed CFO
Nov 1 2016 // Selective Insurance Group Inc., a Branchville, N.J., headquartered holding company for 10 property and casualty insurance companies, appointed Mark A. Wilcox as executive vice president and chief financial officer...
New Jersey Transit Hiring Consultant to Address Safety Concerns
Oct 28 2016 // New Jersey Transit is hiring a former Metro-North president to help it meet federal rail safety requirements. The agency will pay Peter Cannito $350 per hour to review Federal Railroad Administration violations uncovered...
Lifeguards Knew of Danger at New Jersey Beach Years Before Man Drowned
Oct 27 2016 // Lifeguards said they knew of potentially deadly conditions at their beach for at least six years before a man drowned when the sand gave way beneath him. Sandra Smith, of Horsham, Penn., is suing North Wildwood over the...
Hub International Hires Aikins to New Jersey Office
Oct 27 2016 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a Chicago, Ill., headquartered insurance brokerage and consultancy firm, has appointed Mary Aikins, RN, BA, CCM, as vice president and practice leader of health and performance for the...
Hub Northeast Hires McNulty to New Jersey Office
Oct 26 2016 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Northeast Limited (Hub Northeast) has hired Timothy McNulty as an assistant vice president in its employee benefits division. In this role, McNulty will be based in the...
Venbrook Raises $42M in Financing, Buys New Jersey’s Brooks Insurance Group
Oct 21 2016 // Venbrook Group nailed down $42 million in new financing from Madison Capital Funding, a subsidiary of New York Life, and some of the money has already helped back an acquisition that expands its scope in the U.S....
New Jersey’s New Day Underwriting Managers Hires Ippolito
Oct 20 2016 // New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a Hamilton, N.J., based specialty intermediary of environmental and construction related professional liability insurance coverages, has named Jesilyn Ippolito as a consultant within its...
New Jersey Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Insurance Fraud
Oct 19 2016 // New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor announced that a Woodbridge, N.J., man was sentenced to three years in prison for reporting that his motorcycle had been...
Report Shows California and New Jersey Have Highest Workers’ Comp Rates
Oct 18 2016 // California and New Jersey had the nation’s most expensive workers’ compensation rates, while North Dakota had the lowest rates in the nation, a new report shows. A report released this week by the Oregon...
Brakes Were Working in New Jersey Commuter Train Crash, Report Says
Oct 14 2016 // The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday the brakes were working on a New Jersey Transit train that sped into the Hoboken Terminal on Sept. 29, killing one and injuring 110 people. The NTSB previously said...
Study Finds Climate Change Could Lead to More Hurricanes on NYC Coast
Oct 12 2016 // Hurricanes could start flooding New York City’s coastline as often as every 20 years due to the effects of climate change on sea-level rise and hurricane activity, scientists said on Monday. Water could surge some 9...
New Jersey Based Hamilton USA Hires Garceau as Chief Operating Officer
Oct 11 2016 // Hamilton USA, the Princeton, N.J., based U.S. insurance arm of Hamilton Insurance Group, a Bermuda-based holding company for property and casualty insurance and reinsurance operations in Bermuda, the U.S. and at...
New Jersey Based Argo Pro Hires Edsall
Oct 10 2016 // Argo Pro, a Jersey City, N.J., based member of specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., has appointed Richard Edsall to serve as senior vice president of commercial management...
New Jersey’s World Insurance Associates Appoints Margolies to Benefits Division
Oct 6 2016 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., has appointed Howard Margolies as principal, senior vice president and head of the benefits division. This comes after...
New Jersey Train Engineer Says He Can’t Remember Crash
Oct 5 2016 // The engineer at the controls of the train that smashed into a commuter rail terminal, killing a woman and injuring more than 100 people, told federal investigators he was going only 10 mph as he approached the station but...
Investigation of New Jersey Train Crash Continues as Questions Remain
Oct 4 2016 // The engineer of the New Jersey commuter train that crashed on Thursday told investigators he was fully rested but has no memory of the incident, and a recovered data recorder was not working, a National Transportation...
New Jersey Train Service Suspended as Investigators Seek Cause of Crash
Sep 30 2016 // Thousands who rely on the Hoboken terminal in New Jersey may face longer than usual commutes and heavy crowds on Friday as investigators try to determine why a commuter train crashed into the station, killing a woman and...
Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey Inaugurates Board
Sep 29 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ), a Trenton, N.J., based non-profit organization representing independent insurance agents and employees in local communities throughout New Jersey,...
ICW Group Now Writing Workers’ Compensation in Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia
Sep 26 2016 // ICW Group Insurance Companies has begun writing workers’ compensation four additional states—Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia. The San Diego-based company says the move bolsters its presence across the...
