State regulators said an electric utility acted appropriately when it shut off power to a woman who didn’t pay her power bill and died after an oxygen machine she needed stopped working. The state Public Utilities Commission reviewed National Grid’s …
Chubb has inked a consulting agreement with retiring COO and Vice Chairman John Degnan, who will stay on next year as a senior adviser to the New Jersey-based insurer. Degnan, who is set to retire at the end of the …
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 dog was mauled …
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 face a combined nine counts of conspiracy …
State officials say Connecticut’s tough new restrictions on teenage drivers are saving lives. There were six fatal crashes involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers in 2009, the lowest in 12 years. Gov. M. Jodi Rell created a task force on teen …
Melinda Petit has been promoted to director of claims operations for IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance. She will oversee management of settlement and Medicare-related processes, subrogation, claims training, claims auditing, award-processing and claims reporting. Previously, she was a claims business supervisor. …
Insurance broker Brown & Brown has acquired the assets of Ladd’s Agency, an Upstate New York-based insurance agency owned by Alliance Financial Corp. Ladd’s, with annual revenue of roughly $1.4 million, has been providing insurance products and services in the …
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 most fire and …
More than 800 insurance professionals from the tri-state area and two All-Star athletes channeled their competitive energies last night to raise $1.1 million for charities. The New York division of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), which works to combine …
A five-alarm blaze that broke out in Baltimore’s adult-entertainment district on Monday afternoon, spread quickly and sent thick smoke billowing throughout downtown was brought under control in the early evening, city fire officials said. Battalion Chief Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman …
