Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former New Jersey Police Officer Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
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...
New Jersey Says Ban on Cell Phones while Driving Works
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...
New Jersey Company Settles Massachusetts Lawsuit for $239K
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...
New Jersey High Court Denies Claim in Drive-by Shooting
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...
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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...
More Earthquakes Rattle New Jersey
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....
Gilbertson Named Growth Leader for Willis HRH in New Jersey
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...
New Jersey Agents: Allow Fees for Some Commercial-Lines Services
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)...
Conn., New York and New Jersey to Get $22M for Displaced Workers
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...
Allstate Asks New Jersey for 15.4% Rate Hike
Feb 5 2009 // The right coverage at the right price could cost more in New Jersey. Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. is asking the state for permission to raise rates by 15.4 percent on average. The insurer says the higher premiums are...
New York Wholesalers’ Association Names Cruz to Board
Feb 3 2009 // The Professional Insurance Wholesalers Association of New York State Inc. has appointed Maya Cruz to its board of directors. Cruz, who is vice president of All Risk/CESI LLC in New York City, has served on a number of...
Court: New Jersey Group Not Liable in Drunk-Driving Deaths
Jan 26 2009 // A New Jersey nonprofit group is not liable for providing alcohol at a party where four guests were later killed in a drunk-driving crash, the state Supreme Court has ruled. The court upheld a law that allows licensed...
Engineers: New Jersey Entertainment Complex Site Is Contaminated
Jan 16 2009 // A report says the site of the giant Xanadu shopping and entertainment center under construction in the Meadowlands is contaminated. A project engineer says the environmental hazards could remain. The report, first...
Court: New Jersey Woman Can Pursue Perfume Lawsuit
Jan 12 2009 // A New Jersey woman who claims she was disabled by a co-workers’ perfume can move forward with her worker’s compensation lawsuit, an appeals panel ruled Friday. Doris Sexton sued the county-owned nursing home...
Brown & Brown Insurance Buys New Jersey’s Gallagher Associates
Jan 5 2009 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown, Inc. has purchased the assets of Gallagher Associates in Blackwood, New Jersey. Gallagher Associates, with annualized revenues of approximately $2.0 million, sells...
New Jersey Workers’ Comp Rates Drop, Benefits Rise
Jan 5 2009 // New Jersey’s workers’ compensation insurance premiums will drop by roughly 1 percent in 2009, saving the state’s employers an estimated $33 million. “There are a number of factors that affect...
Bollinger Acquires BK International Insurance Brokers
Dec 29 2008 // Short Hills, New Jersey-based insurance agency Bollinger Inc. has acquired BK International Insurance Brokers of Greenwich, Connecticut. The acquisition is the second this month and the fourth this quarter for Bollinger,...
Other Agency/Brokerage Transactions in 2008
Dec 21 2008 // Transactions involving agencies and brokerages other than the Brown & Brown, Arthur J. Gallagher and Hub International (see below) deals in the months announced or completed: January California: R.E. Chaix &...
Insurers Critical of New Jersey Senate Bill
Dec 18 2008 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) said it strongly opposes a bill recently passed by New Jersey Senate that allows physicians to make self-referrals to their ambulatory surgical centers. PCI said...
Ex-New Jersey Politician Sentenced to Prison for Insurance Fraud
Dec 17 2008 // A former New Jersey Assemblyman who is also a Baptist minister has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Alfred E. Steele pleaded guilty in October 2007 to accepting $15,500 in bribes in exchange for steering...
