Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Selective Insurance Group in New Jersey Announces Officer Appointments
May 5 2014 // Selective Insurance Group in Branchville, N.J., announced the following appointments by its subsidiary, Selective Insurance Company of America. Thomas Case has been named vice president, Business Intelligence &...
Declarations
May 5 2014 // Still Not Fixed “They got an advert on TV saying they fixed the Gulf, but I’ve never been fixed.” —Louisiana oysterman Jules Melancon, whose livelihood was disrupted by the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil...
Auto Accident Insurance Scheme Busted in New Jersey; 12 Facing Charges
May 2 2014 // A doctor, a lawyer and two chiropractors are among 12 people facing charges stemming what authorities say was a scheme in New Jersey to recruit motor vehicle accident victims as patients. New Jersey Acting Attorney General...
1,300 N.Y., N.J. Households Losing FEMA Rental Aid This Week
Apr 30 2014 // Over 1,000 families in New York and New Jersey displaced by Superstorm Sandy are losing their federal rental assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency benefit that helped them obtain temporary housing runs out on...
Former Chubb COO Degnan Nominated as Chairman of Port Authority of N.Y.-N.J.
Apr 30 2014 // John Degnan, a former chief operating officer of Chubb Corp., was nominated for chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, filling a vacancy brought on by the scandal...
Analysis: No Rise in Car Crashes in N.J. Despite End of Safety Checks
Apr 29 2014 // New Jersey has not seen a rise in crashes caused by vehicle malfunctions since it stopped motor vehicle safety inspections in 2010. An analysis by The Record newspaper found vehicle malfunctions accounted for roughly 2...
Capacity Coverage Affiliate Invests in Tri-Partners Field Claims Services in N.J.
Apr 28 2014 // Capacity Coverage Company of New Jersey Inc. announced that its affiliate company has made a strategic investment in Tri-Partners Field Claims Services in Warren, N.J. Tri-Partners Field Claims Services was previously...
N.J. Resident Charged With Submitting Fraudulent Invoices to Health Insurer
Apr 28 2014 // A Monmouth County, New Jersey, woman has been indicted for allegedly submitting more than $500,000 in bogus invoices to her health insurance company. A state grand jury indictment alleges that from March 2011 and March...
Port Authority Wrestles with World Trade Center Financing
Apr 24 2014 // The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s failure to agree to a loan guarantee for World Trade Center site developer Larry Silverstein shows agency leaders are wrestling over its direction as they seek to fix...
6 N.J. Residents Charged in Staged Auto Accident Scheme
Apr 23 2014 // New Jersey authorities say six Passaic County, N.J., residents played roles in a staged-automobile accident scheme that defrauded two insurance companies out of more than $78,000. Acting state Attorney General John Hoffman...
Poll: N.J. Residents Back Gov’t Storm Mitigation Efforts but Few Willing to Pay
Apr 23 2014 // A newly published study from Rutgers University in New Jersey shows that most state residents strongly support government programs aimed at lowering the likelihood of severe damage from future hurricanes. The study also...
N.J. Court Advisory Panel Seeks to Speed Up Civil Cases, Unclog Dockets
Apr 21 2014 // Lawyers, judges and litigants have often complained they’ve had to wait years for resolution of civil lawsuits, and now New Jersey’s state Supreme Court advisory committee has offered guidelines to try to speed...
N.J. Roofing Co. Exec Admits to Misleading Its Workers’ Comp Carrier
Apr 17 2014 // Authorities said the president of a roofing company in New Jersey pleaded guilty to providing false and misleading information to the company’s workers’ compensation carrier in order to avoid paying hundreds of...
New Jersey Officials Fighting to End ‘Epidemic of Driver Inattention’
Apr 16 2014 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General John Hoffman this week announced the staggering toll driver inattention has taken on New Jersey’s roadways in the past 10 years. Hoffman said New Jersey has experienced a...
Suspect Sandy Charity Begins Distributing Money
Apr 16 2014 // A Superstorm Sandy charity that was suspected of fraud has started distributing money nearly a year after a settlement with New Jersey prosecutors. The unregistered Hurricane Sandy Relief Foundation handed out $225,000 to...
Most Sandy Housing Assistance Going to Ocean County in N.J.
Apr 16 2014 // Records show more than 60 percent of Superstorm Sandy state housing assistance is going to homeowners in Ocean County, N.J. Nearly $14 million of the $23 million spent on the Sandy Housing Rental Assistance Program has...
N.J. Residents Providing Valuable Storm-Proofing Ideas for Post-Sandy Rebuilding Efforts
Apr 15 2014 // While scientists, politicians and engineers ponder ways to better protect New Jersey from storms like Superstorm Sandy, some of the best ideas are coming from those who suffered the most. As the second summer after Sandy...
Aon Accused by N.Y.-N.J. Port Authority of Unauthorized Commissions
Apr 10 2014 // Aon Plc was sued by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which claims the insurance broker kept unauthorized commissions and failed to return premium overpayments, causing the agency to pay millions of dollars...
N.J.’s Consolidated Insurance Agents Changes Name to ANE, Eyes Expansion
Apr 10 2014 // Consolidated Insurance Agents, a network of independent insurance agencies in New Jersey, is changing its name to ANE, Agency Network Exchange. It also unveiled a plan to add resources and staff to expand its network of...
N.J. Gov. Asks FEMA to Give Sandy Victims More Time to File Flood Claims
Apr 9 2014 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to give the state’s residents and businesses who suffered flood damages from Superstorm Sandy an...
