Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Five Tow-Truck Workers Arrested in Alleged New Jersey Theft Ring
Dec 9 2008 // Five workers at a north Jersey tow truck company face charges they took cash to steal cars and report them as stolen to insurance companies. North Bergen police say an owner of High Point Towing, which operates in Union...
People
Nov 30 2008 // The Insurance Marketing and Communications Association (IMCA) named Richard Look as president. He is a marketing communications veteran with both agency and insurance company experience, and currently serves as vice...
Liberty Mutual Agency Markets Appoints Northeast Management
Nov 19 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Peerless Insurance – Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies – have announced key management appointments in personal and commercial lines operations for the Northeast Victor M. Pepin has...
New Jersey Bar to Lose License after Patron Killed in Fatal Crash
Nov 18 2008 // A go-go bar that served alcohol to a man who later killed two people in an automobile accident in 2000 has failed in an attempt to save its liquor license. A New Jersey appeals court on Friday upheld the license revocation...
New Restrictions Possible for New Jersey Teen Drivers
Nov 11 2008 // New drivers would have to practice for a year before getting their licenses and would be required to display hang tags on their vehicles identifying them as provisional drivers under a package of bills that gets its first...
Crash Victim’s Widow Sues New Jersey Truck Driver
Nov 10 2008 // A Vermont woman whose husband died when a tractor-trailer slammed into two vehicles is suing the driver for negligence. Forty-two-year-old Kenneth A. Middlebusher, of Deptford, N.J., is charged with gross negligent...
New Jersey Eyes Help for Patients after Medical Errors
Nov 3 2008 // New Jersey hospital patients and the companies insuring them would no longer be on the hook to pay for care after a serious medical error occurs, under legislation introduced this month by a New Jersey assemblyman. The...
Business Moves
Nov 2 2008 // The Hartford, Allianz SE The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. finalized a $2.5 billion capital investment by Allianz SE. Under the agreement, Allianz purchased, at $31 per share, $750 million of preferred shares...
High Point Auto Insurance Offers New Jersey Chamber Members Discount
Oct 29 2008 // The 500,000 employees of the member companies of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce are now eligible for a discounted auto insurance program. The deal is being offered in a partnership with High Point Safety and Insurance...
Audit: N.J. Workers Comp Board Head Spent $55K on Travel, Candy
Oct 23 2008 // Auditors say the head of New Jersey’s Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau charged $55,000 on a state credit card for travel, meals and chocolates over 21 months. The audit is the first for the agency that helps...
Former New Jersey Legislator Sentenced in Insurance Bribery Case
Oct 23 2008 // A former New Jersey assemblyman and north Jersey mayor has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison and nine months of home confinement for his role in a bribery scandal that brought down 12 people, including 11...
Wells Fargo Acquires Emar Group
Oct 20 2008 // San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Insurance Services, part of Wells Fargo & Co., has acquired the EMAR Group, an independently owned commercial insurance agency headquartered in Livingston, N.J., with an office in...
Massachusetts Man Charged with Staging Crash Found in New Jersey
Oct 16 2008 // A Lawrence, Massachusetts man wanted for allegedly helping stage a car crash that resulted in the death of a great-grandmother and led to a statewide crackdown of auto insurance fraud has been arrested in New...
New Jersey Skylands Insurance Introduces OneChoice Auto
Oct 15 2008 // New Jersey drivers have a new option for insuring their vehicles. New Jersey Skylands Insurance is now offering its expandable OneChoice Auto in the Garden State. OneChoice Auto features protection for liability, medical...
New Jersey Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Package
Oct 9 2008 // New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has signed a package of five bills lawmakers hope fill strengthen the state’s workers’ compensation system to better protect workers injured on the job. The package of bills...
N.J. Scraps Rebuilding Fee
Oct 6 2008 // Homeowners in New Jersey won’t have to pay the state an extra fee to rebuild their houses after a fire or flood. The state’s Council on Affordable Housing proposed an exemption to regulations it passed in June...
New Jersey Agent Elected to PIA’s Board of Directors
Oct 3 2008 // The former president of the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey has been elected to the board of directors for the trade group’s national association. Andrew C. Harris will represent New Jersey’s...
New Jersey Scraps Fee for Rebuilding Damaged Homes
Sep 24 2008 // Homeowners in New Jersey won’t have to pay the state an extra fee to rebuild their houses after a fire or flood. The state’s Council on Affordable Housing proposed an exemption. The council had come under fire...
Poll: Few New Jersey Residents Support Lower Drinking Age
Sep 16 2008 // A new poll shows few New Jersey residents support lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18. A Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind poll shows just 18 percent of New Jerseyans surveyed would support lowering the age, while 76...
Proposals Aim to Make New Jersey More Corporate-Friendly
Sep 16 2008 // Meeting for the first time since the summer recess, the New Jersey Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee this week debated several bills proposing reforms in the way corporations conduct business. The...
