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Judge Allows New Jersey Town’s Suit to Recover $21M Spent on Beach Restoration
Feb 3 2023 // A New Jersey beach town that defied state environmental authorities and fixed its dunes that were seriously eroded by a storm can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to recover $21 million it spent bulking up its shoreline, but...
Judge Stays New Jersey Law Allowing AG Lawsuits Against Gun Industry
Feb 2 2023 // A federal judge has halted a New Jersey law allowing the state attorney general to bring civil lawsuits against the gun industry in that state. U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi granted a preliminary injunction against...
New Jersey Approves MGA Honeycomb to Sell Commercial Real Estate Policies
Feb 2 2023 // The New Jersey Department of Insurance has given Honeycomb Insurance approval to sell policies statewide. The technology-based managing general agent (MGA) serves the commercial real estate market and will offer insurance...
Union Bay Acquires Franchino Agency in New Jersey
Jan 24 2023 // Union Bay Acquisition, an aggregator of insurance agencies agent based in Princeton, New Jersey, has acquired Franchino Agency, Inc. Hillsborough, New Jersey. Terms were not disclosed. Franchino Agency, headed by Gabe...
New Jersey Home Explosion Injures 5 Firefighters
Jan 17 2023 // POMPTON LAKES, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey house where smoke had been reported exploded with volunteer firefighters inside, injuring five of them and sending two to a hospital for treatment of burns, authorities said. The...
Judge Puts New Jersey’s Stricter Gun Carry Law on Hold
Jan 11 2023 // Suggesting that New Jersey’s recent concealed carry law infringes on the public’s Second Amendment rights, a federal judge on Monday put a temporary hold on the legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court...
Beach Town, State of New Jersey Exchange Lawsuits in Sand Dunes Battle
Jan 11 2023 // NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A beach town that is defying New Jersey’s order not to shore up its eroding sand dunes is suing the state for $21 million. That’s how much North Wildwood says it spent over the...
Insurers, Agents Spared in New Jersey Shooting Claims
Jan 5 2023 // A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that a New Jersey property owner is not entitled to insurance coverage for a shooting because it never disclosed it owned the banquet hall where the shooting took place on its two...
MagMutual Completes Acquisition of New Jersey’s MDAdvantage
Jan 4 2023 // Atlanta-based physician insurer MagMutual Insurance Co reports it has .has completed its acquisition of MDAdvantage Insurance Co. of New Jersey. The deal received final corporate approval and regulatory approval by the New...
Grohs Schrager Hampson Aviation Acquires New Jersey’s Wings Agency
Dec 28 2022 // Grohs Schrager Hampson Aviation Insurance reports that it acquired Wings Agency of Hainesport, New Jersey on December 22, 2022. Wings Agency was founded by Hobart “Bud” Montee over half a century ago. His...
New Jersey Gov. Murphy Signs Gun Carry Bill
Dec 27 2022 // New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed an overhaul to the rules to get a firearm carry permit, legislation that was spurred by this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights. “While we are...
New Jersey Lawmakers Pass Gun Carry Bill With Insurance Mandate
Dec 21 2022 // New Jersey lawmakers gave final approval Monday to legislation overhauling rules to get a firearm carry permit after this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanded gun rights. The Democrat-led Senate passed the...
People Moves: EverQuote’s Bishop Joins Plymouth Rock; Gada Joins Alliant in New Jersey
Dec 14 2022 // Plymouth Rock Home Assurance Names Bishop as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Peter Bishop Plymouth Rock Home Assurance Corp. recently appointed Peter Bishop as vice president and chief marketing officer. Bishop...
Network Merger: New Jersey Alliance’s 22 Agencies to Join Keystone Group
Dec 13 2022 // Keystone Insurers Group, the fourth largest insurance agency network, has agreed to merge New Jersey Agents Alliance (NJAA) into its nationally ranked network. Keystone said NJAA’s 22 owners/members unanimously...
New Jersey Sues Town That Defied Ban on Repairing Eroded Beach
Dec 12 2022 // NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A sand storm at the Jersey shore is escalating. New Jersey is suing a coastal town that repaired beach erosion from a fall storm in defiance of a state order not to do so. And the town, North...
Germany’s BASF to Restore Polluted Superfund Site in New Jersey
Dec 9 2022 // TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The German chemical company BASF will restore damaged natural resources at a notorious Superfund site where decades or pollution and illegal dumping caused vast contamination of the environment,...
Wildfire Mitigation Plan Would Cut 2.4 Million New Jersey Pinelands Trees
Nov 28 2022 // BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Up to 2.4 million trees would be cut down as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New Jersey forest heralded as a unique environmental treasure. New...
New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 6.1% for 2023
Nov 9 2022 // New Jersey workers’ compensation and employer liability insurance rates will be cut an average 6.1% beginning January 1, 2023. The reduction is more than the 4.7% decrease that industry’s rating bureau had...
Ambac Acquires New Jersey Commercial Auto MGU and Marine Broker
Nov 9 2022 // Financial services holding company Ambac Financial Group, Inc. announced that it has acquired majority stakes in both All Trans Risk Solutions, LLC and Capacity Marine Corp, both of Mahwah, New Jersey. All Trans is a...
Alliant Acquires New Jersey’s Trivedi Capacity Associates and Risk Purchasing Group
Nov 2 2022 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired New Jersey-based Trivedi Capacity Associates, further expanding its reach in the community association and condominium association underwriting space. Central to the acquisition is...
