May 27, 2011
Confie Seguros has acquired two New Jersey insurance brokerages – Royale Insurance and First Americano Insurance Agency. The agencies’ founder and CEO, Remberto Perez, will continue to serve as head of the two companies for Confie Sefuros, a national personal …
May 24, 2011
Investigators say they’ve ruled out arson as the possible cause of a fire that damaged 11 vehicles parked in a southern New Jersey school bus yard. But the cause of Thursday’s fire in Bordentown Township still remained a mystery on …
May 23, 2011
A New Jersey insurance broker already charged in a bribery scheme with a former schools superintendent has been indicted on federal election fraud charges. Francis Gartland is accused of scheming with another man to recruit straw donors to funnel money …
May 23, 2011
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has nominated a former federal prosecutor who worked for him at the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate state insurance fraud. Ron Chillemi worked for nearly nine years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Camden and …
May 18, 2011
New Jersey-based New Day Underwriting Managers has promoted John Heft to senior vice president, director real estate practice. The 20-year industry veteran joined New Day in 2006, and has developed and managed the company’s real estate book of business, identified …
May 10, 2011
A federal appeals court has ruled that the government doesn’t have to pay the family of a New Jersey sailor killed in a training exercise, even though a lower court found the Navy 80 percent responsible for the accident. The …
April 15, 2011
The New Jersey Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from ExxonMobil over $7 million awarded to a woman who claimed she got cancer from her husband’s asbestos-laden clothes. A jury in 2008 found Bonnie Anderson had contracted mesothelioma from washing …
April 7, 2011
New Jersey-based Jimcor Agencies has named Kristoffer Boyd branch manager for its office in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Boyd joins Jimcor with over 12 years experience in the insurance industry. He previously oversaw retail agency operations and corporate program management for …
April 1, 2011
A dwarf couple from southern New Jersey has filed a defamation lawsuit against a cable television channel that used a doctored photo of the pair to spoof reality television shows. Cara and Gibson Reynolds say the sketch — which aired …
March 28, 2011
New Jersey, the most densely populated state and home to the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant, created a task force Friday to review safety and emergency response plans at nuclear plants in light of the disaster unfolding in Japan. The …