Latest New Jersey Headlines
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Many Sandy-Displaced N.J. Residents Dissatisfied With Insurers: Survey
Oct 30 2013 // A new survey of New Jersey residents who have been displaced from their homes because of Superstorm Sandy shows many of them are not happy with their insurers. The Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch,...
Insurers Rated on Customer Satisfaction with Auto Claims: J.D. Power
Oct 30 2013 // Customer satisfaction with auto insurance claims handling is improving, due in large part to insurers’ improvements in managing the first notice of loss (FNOL) process and providing faster payments to claimants,...
1 Year After Sandy, N.J. Urges Consumers to Stay Vigilant About Insurance Fraud
Oct 29 2013 // One year after Superstorm Sandy struck the state, New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) Commissioner Ken Kobylowski is cautioning consumers to remain vigilant about insurance fraud. “Each year,...
New Jersey Gov. Christie: Congress Is to Blame for Sandy Aid Delays
Oct 28 2013 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he understands victims’ frustrations a year after Superstorm Sandy but maintains that his administration isn’t to blame for delays in aid reaching victims. In an interview...
How a Run-of-the-Mill Hurricane Mutated Into a Superstorm Named Sandy
Oct 28 2013 // It was the moment a run-of-the-mill hurricane mutated into a monster named Sandy. Paradoxically, it was the same time Sandy lost much of its wind power, dropping from a hurricane to a tropical storm. It was a Friday night...
Sandy Left-Behinds Brace for Second Year With Relief Elusive
Oct 25 2013 // For more than a half-century, Whitey’s Landing on New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay has served boaters pulling up for engine repairs or clams from the bait freezer. This season, only one-third of its 30 moorings were...
New Jersey’s Second Homeowners Stuck in Limbo a Year After Sandy
Oct 24 2013 // The Jersey shore’s small vacation bungalows and cottages have for decades staked out little plots of paradise where families who scrimped and saved could while away summer evenings, parents having drinks on the deck...
A Year After Sandy, a Slow Recovery for Thousands
Oct 24 2013 // A year after Superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded hundreds of miles of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by bureaucracy, insurance...
N.J.’s Sandy Victims Tell State Panel: Insurance, Red Tape Are Horrendous
Oct 23 2013 // Nearly a year after Superstorm Sandy, victims of the storm told a New Jersey state panel that insurance woes and bureaucratic red tape are doing just as much damage as the storm. At a New Jersey Senate hearing Monday in...
Florida Man Gets 7 Years in New Jersey Insurance Fraud Scam
Oct 21 2013 // A Florida man who worked for a now-defunct southern New Jersey construction company has been sentenced to seven years in state prison for his role in a home-repairs scam.. The New Jersey attorney general’s...
Business Moves
Oct 21 2013 // Confie Seguros Personal lines insurance brokerage Confie Seguros acquired three additional brokers: James S. Sullivan Agency and Advanced Auto Insurance in New York, and Family Insurance in Corpus Christi, Texas. James S....
New Jersey Marks Mediation Progress for Sandy-Related Open Claims
Oct 18 2013 // New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski announced Thursday the most recent results of a mediation program designed to settle non-flood Superstorm Sandy-related open claims. To date, 69...
Normalcy Eludes Many a Year After Sandy Hit New Jersey
Oct 14 2013 // Bart Sutton fought with his insurance company for a year over what it would cost to rebuild his flood-damaged home, then gave up in frustration and tore it down. A week later, the money came through. Simone and Ken...
AIG Sued by Small Businesses Over Workers’ Compensation Reporting
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
N.J. Group Urges Gov’t to Establish Extreme Weather Superfund for Future Disasters
Oct 9 2013 // A New Jersey-based nonprofit group is calling on the federal government to establish a permanent funding source to prepare for future natural catastrophes. The group, called US Strong, says in its new report that an...
New Jersey Gov. Christie Blames Civil Servant for Sandy Train Damage
Oct 7 2013 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says a low-level manager — not the state’s mass transit chief — was to blame for failing to move trains to higher ground during Superstorm Sandy, causing $120 million in...
N.J. Regulators Requesting Updated Sandy Claims Data From Insurers
Oct 4 2013 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance recently announced a new data call request to the insurance industry to evaluate Superstorm Sandy-related claims and monitor market conditions for property/casualty...
First Superstorm Sandy Home Buyout Set to Close in New York
Oct 4 2013 // Even when Superstorm Sandy killed their neighbors and flooded their house, Frank and Mary Lettieri vowed to stay in the Staten Island, New York, home where they raised five children. But with a popular home buyback program...
AssuredPartners Acquires AJM Insurance in New Jersey
Oct 3 2013 // AssuredPartners of New Jersey, an AssuredPartners Inc. platform operation, acquired Anderson-Jackson-Metts (d/b/a/ AJM Insurance). AJM Insurance specializes in commercial insurance coverage, personal insurance coverage and...
Flood Insurance Premiums Rising Along New Jersey Coast
Sep 30 2013 // Hundreds of New Jersey flood insurance policyholders will soon be facing higher premiums spurred by sweeping changes to the federal law that will take effect Tuesday. The increases stem from legislation passed in June 2012...
