Latest New Jersey Headlines
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Rutgers Law School in New Jersey Launches Project to Improve Homeowners Insurance
Dec 5 2016 // The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners insurance nationally through its recently launched national...
2016 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed: Demotech
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
7 Injured in Fire that Damaged 3 Homes in New Jersey
Nov 23 2016 // Seven people have been injured, four critically, in a fire that swept through three homes in Woodbury, N.J. One of the homes collapsed after the fire that started around 3:30 a.m. Monday in a home on Mehorter Boulevard and...
Suit Against New Jersey School Over Sex Charges Can Proceed
Nov 22 2016 // A lawsuit against William Paterson University over its handling of sex assault charges against five male students will be allowed to proceed. The five were charged in 2014 but a Passaic County grand jury declined to indict...
After New Jersey Train Crash, Transit Regulators Targeting Sleep Apnea
Nov 22 2016 // Federal regulators want railroads across the country to test train operators for a sleep disorder. The safety advisory being issued this week by the Federal Railroad Administration comes after the engineer in...
New Jersey’s Selective Insurance Company of America Appoints New Officers
Nov 22 2016 // Selective Insurance Company of America, the Branchville, N.J., headquartered subsidiary of Selective Insurance Group Inc., has made five new officer appointments. The company has appointed Rohan Pai to senior vice...
Personnel Announcements
Nov 21 2016 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Northeast Limited (Hub Northeast) has hired Timothy McNulty as an assistant vice president in its employee benefits division. In this role, McNulty will be based in the...
Rutgers Law School in New Jersey Launches Project to Improve Homeowners’ Insurance
Nov 17 2016 // Rutgers Law School’s Camden, N.J., location, in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners’ insurance nationally through its recently launched project. The Rutgers Center for Risk...
J&J Tries to Switch to Court Outside Missouri After $195 Million in Talc Verdicts
Nov 8 2016 // After a $67.5 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson on Oct. 27 marked its third straight trial defeat in an onslaught of lawsuits claiming its talc-based products cause ovarian cancer, the company is hoping to...
New Jersey Woman Sues UMass Over Son’s Fatal Drug Overdose
Nov 7 2016 // The mother of a University of Massachusetts Amherst student who died of a heroin overdose has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the school and another student charged with selling her son the drugs. Francesca...
New Jersey Utility Fined $300K for Violations that Caused Explosion
Nov 3 2016 // New Jersey state officials have fined a utility company $300,000 for safety violations that led to a home explosion and fire last year. The fine against South Jersey Gas was announced Tuesday by the New Jersey Board of...
New Jersey’s Selective Insurance Group Hires Wilcox to Succeed CFO
Nov 1 2016 // Selective Insurance Group Inc., a Branchville, N.J., headquartered holding company for 10 property and casualty insurance companies, appointed Mark A. Wilcox as executive vice president and chief financial officer...
New Jersey Transit Hiring Consultant to Address Safety Concerns
Oct 28 2016 // New Jersey Transit is hiring a former Metro-North president to help it meet federal rail safety requirements. The agency will pay Peter Cannito $350 per hour to review Federal Railroad Administration violations uncovered...
Lifeguards Knew of Danger at New Jersey Beach Years Before Man Drowned
Oct 27 2016 // Lifeguards said they knew of potentially deadly conditions at their beach for at least six years before a man drowned when the sand gave way beneath him. Sandra Smith, of Horsham, Penn., is suing North Wildwood over the...
Hub International Hires Aikins to New Jersey Office
Oct 27 2016 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a Chicago, Ill., headquartered insurance brokerage and consultancy firm, has appointed Mary Aikins, RN, BA, CCM, as vice president and practice leader of health and performance for the...
Hub Northeast Hires McNulty to New Jersey Office
Oct 26 2016 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Northeast Limited (Hub Northeast) has hired Timothy McNulty as an assistant vice president in its employee benefits division. In this role, McNulty will be based in the...
Venbrook Raises $42M in Financing, Buys New Jersey’s Brooks Insurance Group
Oct 21 2016 // Venbrook Group nailed down $42 million in new financing from Madison Capital Funding, a subsidiary of New York Life, and some of the money has already helped back an acquisition that expands its scope in the U.S....
New Jersey’s New Day Underwriting Managers Hires Ippolito
Oct 20 2016 // New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a Hamilton, N.J., based specialty intermediary of environmental and construction related professional liability insurance coverages, has named Jesilyn Ippolito as a consultant within its...
New Jersey Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Insurance Fraud
Oct 19 2016 // New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor announced that a Woodbridge, N.J., man was sentenced to three years in prison for reporting that his motorcycle had been...
Report Shows California and New Jersey Have Highest Workers’ Comp Rates
Oct 18 2016 // California and New Jersey had the nation’s most expensive workers’ compensation rates, while North Dakota had the lowest rates in the nation, a new report shows. A report released this week by the Oregon...
