Latest New Jersey Headlines
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New Jersey Man Gets 4 Years for $20M Insurance Scam
Jan 26 2011 // A former partner in a New Jersey-based insurance firm is going to prison for four years for his role in a $20 million loan scheme. Gavin Gatta’s company, Smith Gatta Gelok, assisted businesses in buying commercial...
Ratings Recap: Berkley National, Allstate (NJ), Preferred Physicians
Jan 24 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has commented that the financial strength rating of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit rating of “aa-” of Iowa-based Berkley National Insurance Company are unchanged following internal...
Alleged ‘Harassment’ Not Compensable for New Jersey Security Guard
Jan 24 2011 // A New Jersey woman who claimed the stress of her work as a hospital security guard left her with a psychiatric disability cannot collect workers’ compensation benefits, a state judge has ruled. The case centered on...
Captivated By Potential
Jan 24 2011 // Northeast State Have Uneven Success Attracting Captives States across the Northeast continue to look at captive insurance companies as a potential source of new business — and tax revenue — but the continued growth of...
Alleged ‘Harassment’ Not Compensable for New Jersey Security Guard
Jan 12 2011 // A New Jersey woman who claimed the stress of her work as a hospital security guard left her with a psychiatric disability cannot collect workers’ compensation benefits, a state judge has ruled. The case centered on...
New Jersey Court: Mauled Dog’s Owner Can’t Get Damages
Jan 10 2011 // Pet owners who witness their animals being killed by another creature cannot seek damages for emotional distress, a New Jersey appellate court has ruled. The decision, issued last month, came in the case of a woman whose...
New Jersey Passes Captive Insurance Legislation
Jan 10 2011 // New Jersey will soon allow captive insurers under a bill passed by the state’s legislature and expected to be signed by the state’s governor in the coming weeks. The legislation makes the Garden State a captive...
New Jersey Wants Seat Belt Safety to Click with Teens
Dec 29 2010 // New Jersey will begin a new effort next year to try to improve on a grim reality: Motor vehicle accidents remain the leading cause of death for teenagers and young adults, the age group least likely to wear seat belts. The...
New Jersey Moving to End Liability Cap for Offshore Spills
Dec 17 2010 // New Jersey is moving toward making polluters pay the full cost of cleaning up offshore spills. A bill to remove a cap on liability for oil and other spills into coastal waters was passed by the state Senate on Monday and...
New Jersey Jury Convicts Man in Bogus Insurance Scheme
Dec 16 2010 // A federal jury in New Jersey has found a California man guilty of selling bogus liability insurance policies. The jury returned its verdict against 62-year-old Ronald Allen of North Hollywood, Calif., following a seven-day...
New Jersey Court: Mauled Dog’s Owner Can’t Get Damages
Dec 13 2010 // Pet owners who witness their animals being killed by another creature cannot seek damages for emotional distress, a New Jersey appellate court has ruled. The decision issued Friday came in the case of a woman whose small...
Charges Added for Former New Jersey School Superintendent and Broker
Dec 10 2010 // The government has added more charges in the bribery case against a former New Jersey school superintendent and an insurance broker. In a superseding indictment announced this week, Michael Ritacco and Francis Gartland...
New Jersey Towns Look to Charge Insurers for Fire and First-Aid
Dec 9 2010 // Some New Jerseyans might have to pay if they need the fire department or an ambulance. Salem’s City Council has adopted an ordinance that would allow the fire department to charge to recover costs. The council says...
Report: New Jersey Motorcycle Deaths Drop
Dec 5 2010 // A new report shows a drop in deaths from motorcycle accidents in New Jersey – a change that’s good news for both riders and safety advocates. Overall, 68 people died in motorcycle crashes across the Garden...
Report: New Jersey Motorcycle Deaths Drop
Nov 24 2010 // A new report shows a drop in deaths from motorcycle accidents in New Jersey — a change that’s good news for both riders and safety advocates. “I think it’s great,” Barbara Borowiec, a South...
USI Acquires Kinloch’s New Jersey Business
Nov 23 2010 // New York-based insurance broker USI Holdings has acquired the New Jersey operation of Kinloch Holdings Inc. The unit, based in West Orange, New Jersey, specializes in commercial property casualty and employee benefits...
NJM Insurance Policyholders to Get Dividend Checks
Nov 17 2010 // New Jersey’s largest auto insurer is issuing dividend checks averaging $107 to its policyholders. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company began issuing the checks on Monday. The Ewing-based company says the checks...
Monitor Liability Managers Brings Lawyers Liability Program to New Jersey
Nov 16 2010 // Monitor Liability Managers, LLC (Monitor) has introduced a new lawyers professional liability (LPL) insurance program in New Jersey. The LPL program provides liability protection for law firms [headquartered in New Jersey]...
General Star Expands Admitted Architects, Engineers Product to NY, NJ
Nov 16 2010 // General Star has expanded its architects and engineers professional liability program on an admitted basis to New York and New Jersey. This new feature is part of General Star’s nationwide A & E program, launched...
New Jersey Utility Reaches $450K Settlement Deadly House Blast
Nov 15 2010 // Public Service Electric & Gas will pay $450,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man killed in a 2008 house explosion. Sixty-six-year-old Richard Haas, who lived alone in the three-story...
