Latest New Jersey Headlines
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3 New Jersey Insurers Switch to Plymouth Rock Brand Name
Jun 29 2011 // High Point Auto Insurance, Palisades Insurance and Teachers’ Insurance Plan of New Jersey all have a new brand name, Plymouth Rock Assurance. Over the next several months, current High Point, Palisades and...
Bollinger Acquires New Jersey Agency, PCG
Jun 27 2011 // Short Hills, N.J.-based insurance broker Bollinger Inc. has acquired the Cranford, N.J. agency, The Property and Casualty Group (PCG). Terms were not disclosed. PCG It sells commercial and personal insurance in New Jersey,...
Boating Deaths in New Jersey Rise in 2010
Jun 23 2011 // Coast Guard figures show New Jersey bucked a national trend of record low recreational boating deaths in 2010. Eight people died in boating accidents in the Garden State last year, two more than in 2009. There have been no...
New Jersey Man Charged with Trying to Sink His Own Boat
Jun 21 2011 // A New Jersey fishing boat owner is charged in a botched attempt to sink his vessel to collect insurance money. A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charges 38-year-old Scott Tran of Cherry Hill, and three other...
New Jersey Town Approves Heliport for Powerbroker’s Firm
Jun 20 2011 // The Evesham, New Jersey Township Planning Board has approved a proposal to build a heliport despite objections from a nearby hospital and residents. Permission for the landing area was requested by the insurance firm...
New Jersey Court: Drunk Driver Can Sue Bar that Served Him
Jun 20 2011 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled that a convicted drunken driver has the right to sue the bar that served him. The court’s 5-2 ruling last month stems from a 2006 motorcycle crash in which Frederick Voss...
New Jersey Court Denies Blogger Shield Protection
Jun 9 2011 // A blogger sued for defamation over comments posted on an Internet message board is not entitled to the same protections as a journalist, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The court said that blogger Shellee...
Business Moves
Jun 6 2011 // Crump, Self Funded Alternatives Wholesaler broker Crump Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Self Funded Alternatives, an insurance intermediary specializing in self-insured workers’ compensation programs. SFA is...
New Jersey Court: Drunk Driver Can Sue Bar that Served Him
Jun 3 2011 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled a convicted drunken driver has the right to sue the bar that served him. Wednesday’s 5-2 ruling stems from a 2006 motorcycle crash in which Frederick Voss had a...
Confie Seguros Buys Two New Jersey Agencies
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...
New Jersey Police Rule Out Arson in School Bus Yard Fire
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...
New Jersey Insurance Broker Indicted for Election Fraud
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...
Chillemi Nominated for New Jersey Insurance Prosecutor
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...
Court: Navy Not Liable for New Jersey Sailor Killed in ’07
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...
New Jersey High Court Denies Exxon Appeal of $7 Million Award
Apr 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...
New Jersey Dwarf Couple Sues Cable Channel for Defamation
Apr 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...
New Jersey, Home to Oldest U.S. Nuke Plant, Reviewing Safety
Mar 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...
Insurers, Brokers Settle Spitzer-Era Bid-Rigging Case for $37 Million
Mar 23 2011 // Lawyers for a majority of the 15 insurance company and broker defendants in a long-running suit accusing them of bid-rigging are scheduled to be in court today outlining a proposed settlement that will cost them about...
New Jersey Captive Group Appoints Board
Mar 21 2011 // The New Jersey Captive Insurance Association (NJCIA) has appointed a seven-member advisory board, which will assist the group in guiding the state’s new captive insurance industry. The board members are Andrew...
Core Programs Established in New Jersey
Mar 15 2011 // A new program administrator, Core Programs, has launched in New Jersey. The Totowa-based firm, managed by 23-year industry veteran Richard Trezza, will focus on commercial P&C lines. With an operating platform...
