Latest New Jersey Headlines
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N.J. Commissioner Offers Consumer Tips for Selecting Pet Insurance
Aug 8 2014 // New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski this week advised pet owners to carefully review their options before purchasing pet health insurance and pet injury coverage. “Pet insurance...
New Jersey City to Reimburse Homeowner for Sewer Backup Damage
Aug 8 2014 // The City Council of Clifton, New Jersey, has voted to reimburse a homeowner after the city’s sewage test flooded a basement, ruining a joint birthday celebration and flooring that was put down the day...
N.J. Accelerates Disbursement of Federal Sandy Aid for Homeowners
Aug 7 2014 // New Jersey state officials say they have accelerated spending on housing programs from federal aid sent to New Jersey to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy amid improvements to a big program that got off to an uncertain start...
New Day Underwriting Managers Hires Account Manager in N.J.
Aug 7 2014 // Heidi Burke New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a Hamilton, N.J.-based specialty intermediary for environmental and construction-related professional liability insurance coverage, has hired Heidi Burke as account manager....
Norman-Spencer Acquires Northern Star Management in N.J.
Aug 6 2014 // Norman-Spencer Agency Inc., a Dayton, Ohio-based national insurance provider and program administrator, has completed the acquisition of Northern Star Management Inc. Based out of New Jersey since 1997, Northern Star has...
City’s Sewage Test Floods Basement in Clifton, New Jersey
Aug 1 2014 // A northern New Jersey couple had a joint birthday celebration ruined after their city’s sewage test flooded their basement and ruined flooring that was put down the day before. Officials in Clifton, New Jersey,...
Prosecutors: N.J. Man Falsely Claimed He Was Carjacked
Jul 25 2014 // Authorities say a central New Jersey man lied when he claimed he had been carjacked by someone who then crashed his vehicle into several parked cars. Union County prosecutors announced Wednesday that 29-year-old Darwin...
Critics Want More Details on Superstorm Sandy Spending in New Jersey
Jul 23 2014 // New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney says newly released reports on the state’s biggest Superstorm Sandy recovery projects are not detailed enough. Gov. Chris Christie’s administration released its first...
After Ordeal, N.J. Legislator Pushes for Video Cameras in New Police Cars
Jul 22 2014 // For New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, putting video cameras in new police cars became personal two years ago when he was arrested for drunken driving and video from a camera mounted on a cruiser helped get the charges...
USI Acquires BHB Insurance Services in New Jersey
Jul 21 2014 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing of the acquisition of BHB Insurance Services in Toms River, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. USI says BHB is best known for its community associations...
CED 1976 in N.J. Hires Relationship Executive
Jul 16 2014 // CED 1976 LLC, a Fairlawn, N.J.-based managing general underwriter, hired Jeff Mills as relationship executive for its Jewelers unBLOCKed product, a proprietary insurance portfolio designed to provide coverage to the...
Work Begins on Steel Sea Wall for 2 Sandy-Devastated Towns in N.J.
Jul 16 2014 // Two wealthy New Jersey shore towns that were among the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy nearly two years ago began building a 4-mile-long steel wall last week, an expensive effort that the state says is needed to protect...
M.L. Ruberton Agency in N.J. Joins Iroquois Group
Jul 15 2014 // M.L. Ruberton Agency of Hammonton, New Jersey, announced it has joined The Iroquois Group, a network of property/casualty insurance agencies. Founded in 1910, M.L. Ruberton Agency is a family-owned insurance agency...
Tracy Morgan Sues Wal-Mart for N.J. Crash That Killed 1
Jul 14 2014 // Former “Saturday Night Live” star Tracy Morgan has sued Wal-Mart over last month’s highway crash involving one of its drivers that left him seriously injured and a fellow comedian dead. The lawsuit, filed...
6.5 Million Homes from Maine to Texas at Risk for Storm Surge: CoreLogic
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
New Jersey Gov. Christie Announces New Sandy Elevation Grants
Jul 9 2014 // Dozens more homeowners in New Jersey have received grants to raise their homes above flood levels in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Gov. Chris Christie traveled to Keansburg on Monday to announce that 132 more federal...
Markel Appoints Managing Director, Excess and Umbrella, in New Jersey
Jul 7 2014 // Richmond, Virginia-based Markel Corp. has appointed Tim Pasik as managing director, excess and umbrella, for its product line leadership team. He will be based in Markel’s Red Bank, New Jersey, office and report to...
New Jersey Superfund Site Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed
Jul 7 2014 // A lawsuit filed against a New Jersey town and county and the Army Corps of Engineers over the nearly $80 million cleanup of a Raritan Bay Superfund site can proceed, a federal judge ruled last week. U.S. District Judge...
Feds Give $102M in Storm Protection Funds to 11 States
Jul 7 2014 // Eleven states in the eastern U.S. will share $102.7 million in grants from the federal government to protect against future storms, with the greatest amount of funded projects in New Jersey and New York. The U.S....
N.J. Court OKs Employment Contract That Shortened Worker’s Time to Sue
Jul 3 2014 // A New Jersey appeals court recently affirmed that a worker was bound by a contractual provision, contained in an employment application, which shortened the two-year statute of limitations for filing claims against his...
