New Jersey News

EAGiL Acquires Goebel Insurance Agency

Goebel Insurance Agency of Philadelphia has been acquired by Eagil Financial Group, a New Jersey-based firm that provides financial planning services to high net worth clients. Financial details of the transaction were not released. Guy E. Runyon, president and CEO …

NSM Acquires Condon & Skelly Collectible Vehicle Insurance

NSM Insurance Group acquired Condon & Skelly Collectible Vehicle Insurance, effective Dec. 31, 2009. Founded in 1965, Condon & Skelly Collectible Vehicle Insurance began as a small niche insurance provider, and claims to be one of the original insurance brokers …

Tapco Opens Underwriting Service Center in Dallas

Tapco Underwriters Inc. (TAPCO), a Burlington, N.C.-based MGA specializing in high-volume, transaction-based excess and surplus insurance lines, is opening an underwriting service center in Dallas, Texas. Tapco veteran Ellen McBride will manage the Dallas office. McBride has more than 25 …

New Jersey Court: Coffee Break-Injury Gets Full Disability

A New Jersey plumber who was severely injured while driving to a coffee break can collect full workers’ compensation benefits, a Superior Court has ruled. The decision centers on injuries suffered by Jesse J. Cooper Sr., a master plumber and …

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New Jersey Court Expands Sex Discrimination Protection

A New Jersey appeals court ruling has expanded protections against sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. A three-judge panel ruled this month that the female owner of a South Plainfield-based tire business could sue United Rentals North America Inc. …

New Jersey Drunken Driver Ignition Lock Bill Approved

Some first-time drunken drivers will have to install ignition interlock devices under legislation passed by lawmakers in New Jersey. The bill, which was signed into law this month, requires first-time drunken drivers with a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 percent or …

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Colemont Insurance Brokers has promoted Tara Plourde to broker in the company’s Hartford, Connecticut office. She joined Colemont in 2008. Prior to Colemont, she was a commercial lines underwriter at a standard lines carrier. She specializes in casualty accounts, focusing …

Four Agents Plead Guilty to Insurance Fraud in New Jersey

Four former insurance agents have pleaded guilty for their role in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums from their customers, New Jersey’s attorney general said. Thomas Hurd, of Bensalem, Pa., William Wolnski, of Bayville, N.J. …

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Zenith National Insurance Corp. has hired Janet Frank as president and chief operating officer of the workers’ compensation writer’s principal operating subsidiary, Zenith Insurance Co. She will also be an executive vice president of Zenith National Insurance Corp. Frank most …