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OSHA Seeks $1M Penalty for New Jersey Contractor Added to ‘Severe Violator’ List
Feb 13 2024 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a New Jersey contractor for again exposing workers to fall hazards, this time while working at a construction site in Franklin Lakes, New...
Johnson & Johnson Worker’s Lawsuit Alleges Company Overpaid for Drugs
Feb 8 2024 // Johnson & Johnson was sued by an employee who said the company’s health plan wasted workers’ money by paying inflated prices for prescription drugs. In one instance, the health plan agreed to pay more than...
New Jersey Denies Bulkhead for Shore Town With Wrecked Sand Dunes
Feb 6 2024 // New Jersey is refusing to allow a shore town whose sand dunes have washed away in places to build a bulkhead to protect itself, ruling that no one is in imminent danger. The state Department of Environmental Protection...
Bill to Ban Smoking in Atlantic City Casinos Advances
Jan 31 2024 // A measure that would prohibit smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos moved forward Monday after three years of going nowhere, heartening casino workers who say they are literally sick and tired of having smoke blown in...
People Moves: Lezynski Joins Alliant Americas in New Jersey From USI
Jan 30 2024 // Michael Lezynski has joined Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, as executive vice president within the company’s Alliant Americas division. Based in Red Bank, New Jersey Lezynski will be...
Jersey Shore Town Fighting State Over Beach Erosion Suffers Winter Storm Damage
Jan 29 2024 // A New Jersey shore town locked in a legal battle with the state over tens of millions of dollars it has spent trying — mostly in vain — to hold back the ocean now is more vulnerable than ever. A recent winter...
New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Against Casino in COVID Business Interruption Case
Jan 26 2024 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an Atlantic City casino is not entitled to payouts from business interruption insurance for losses during the COVID-19 outbreak, determining that the presence of the...
New Jersey Expands Workers’ Compensation for First Responders
Jan 24 2024 // New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed into law a change in workers’ compensation coverage for volunteer and professional public safety and law enforcement personnel. The new law (A-5909/S-4267) amends current...
J&J Sets Up 3rd Talc Bankruptcy Bid by Moving Unit to Texas
Jan 22 2024 // Johnson & Johnson is seeking to move a unit to Texas as it prepares for a potential third bankruptcy court filing to resolve more than 50,000 lawsuits alleging tainted talc in its baby powder caused cancer. The company...
New Jersey Provides Tools to Implement New Flood Risks Disclosure Law
Jan 22 2024 // New Jersey officials have introduced measures to implement flood risk disclosure legislation signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy last June. The measures include new property disclosure forms notifying buyers and tenants of...
Court Says Bulk of GEICO’s $2.3 Million Fraud Case Belongs in Arbitration
Jan 5 2024 // Insurer GEICO has been dealt a setback in its efforts to get back $2.3 million in what it alleges were fraudulent medical and chiropractic service charges it paid to several clinics under New Jersey’s no-fault...
New Jersey Provides Tools to Implement New Flood Risks Disclosure Law
Jan 2 2024 // New Jersey officials have introduced measures to implement flood risk disclosure legislation signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy last June. The measures include new property disclosure forms notifying buyers and...
Top East Insurance Journal Stories of 2023
Dec 29 2023 // Insurance Journal East readers showed keen interest in news about insurance agents’ responsibilities in 2023 including court cases involving an agent’s homeowner client with an unlisted dog; Harvard...
People Moves: New Jersey’s Convelo Group Names Borst President
Dec 28 2023 // Convelo Insurance Group, headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, has hired Andrew “Andy” Borst as president. Borst has 25 years of insurance industry experience, most recently serving as president of E&S...
Helicopter Crash in New Jersey Forest Kills 2 from ABC News Team
Dec 20 2023 // A helicopter crashed on Tuesday night in the Pinelands wilderness area of New Jersey, killing the pilot and a photographer who worked for ABC-TV news team in Philadelphia, WPVI. The ABC news station said the chopper went...
Man Pleads Guilty to One of New York’s Biggest No-Fault Insurance Frauds Ever
Dec 19 2023 // A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $60-$70 million fraud targeting no-fault automobile insurance companies in New York. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams reported that Bradley Pierre of Closter, New Jersey,...
Mission Accomplished: Allstate Announces Calif., NY, NJ Rate Approvals
Dec 18 2023 // The departments of insurance in California, New York and New Jersey approved double-digit auto rate increases for Allstate in the three states that the carrier considered exiting in the absence of approvals, the...
New Jersey Casino Workers Light Up in State House to Protest Smoking in Workplace
Dec 18 2023 // With prospects for a smoking ban in Atlantic City`s casinos looking hazier than ever, workers who want smoking banned took matters into their own hands, lips and lungs Thursday. Members of the United Auto Workers union...
New Jersey Brings Civil Suits Against 3 Gun Dealers Over Visibility, Security, Ghost Guns
Dec 14 2023 // New Jersey`s attorney general sued three firearms dealers Tuesday, alleging one illegally stored firearms that were visible from outside a store and that the two others tried to sell “ghost guns.” The suits...
Travelers Wins CGL v. E&O Battle in Insurance Agency Defamation Case
Dec 8 2023 // Travelers Casualty Insurance Co. did not owe a duty to defend or indemnify its insured, CBIZ Borden-Perlman Insurance Agency, Inc., in a tort action in which Republic, as another insurer of B-P, bore the litigation and...
