Latest New Jersey Headlines
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Jury Should Decide ‘Borrowed Employee’ Liability, New Jersey High Court Affirms
Jun 6 2023 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has affirmed that whether an employer is vicariously liable under the borrowed-employee doctrine is a question of fact that should be decided by the jury, not the judge, unless the evidence is...
New Jersey Appeals Ruling Blocking Gunowner Insurance Mandate, Handgun Restrictions
Jun 5 2023 // A federal judge has blocked part of New Jersey’s new handgun carry law that barred weapons from being carried in so-called sensitive places and halted a new insurance mandate the law sought to institute. The court...
New Jersey Fire Crews Battle 2 Major Fires
Jun 4 2023 // Fire crews in New Jersey on Saturday had almost completely contained one major fire and were reporting good progress in battling another blaze that for a time threatened several dozen homes. New Jersey Forest Fire Service...
New Jersey Allows Emergency Erosion Fixes in Defiant Town
May 22 2023 // New Jersey environmental officials will allow a shore town to carry out emergency repairs to its badly eroded beachfront, even as they continue a years-long fight with city officials over how best to protect the popular...
N.J. Appeals Court Rules War Exclusion Doesn’t Apply to NotPetya Attack
May 22 2023 // Insurers may not use a war exclusion to deny coverage to Merck & Co. for a 2017 cyberattack blamed on the Russian military, a panel of the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled. The panel affirmed a decision by the Union...
Metal Products Firm Cited as Serious Safety Violator After Amputation
May 19 2023 // An employee’s first day of work at a southern New Jersey manufacturing facility ended tragically when he suffered the amputation of three fingers while operating a press brake without required safety guards, similar...
Judge Blocks New Jersey Insurance Mandate and Ban on Handguns in Certain Places
May 18 2023 // A federal judge on Tuesday blocked part of New Jersey’s new handgun carry law that barred weapons from being carried in so-called sensitive places and halted a new insurance mandate the law sought to...
Nobody Injured as Possible Meteorite Crashes Through Roof Into New Jersey Home
May 11 2023 // HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A metallic object believed to be a meteorite punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom. The family who owns...
J&J, Cancer Victims Ordered to Start Mediation in Bankruptcy
May 11 2023 // A federal judge ordered a new round of settlement talks between Johnson & Johnson and lawyers who spurned the company’s offer to pay $8.9 billion to end tens of thousands of cancer claims filed by people who used...
New Jersey Man Pleads Not Guilty to Multistate Car Theft and Resale Scheme
May 3 2023 // A former Bergen County, New Jersey man has been charged with running a large, multistate car theft and fraud ring. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger reported that Warren Guerrier, formerly of Hackensack, New Jersey,...
New Jersey Appeals Court Affirms War Exclusion Does Not Apply to Cyber Attack
May 2 2023 // The appellate division of New Jersey Superior Court has upheld a state trial court opinion that the war exclusion in drugmaker Merck & Co.’s all-risk property insurance policies does not apply in the case of the...
New Jersey Sues 8 Pollution Sites to Force Cleanups
Apr 25 2023 // New Jersey announced eight new lawsuits and other action against what it says are companies and individuals who’ve failed to clean up pollutants at sites across the state, the attorney general and top environmental...
Two New Jersey Police Chiefs Facing Charges
Apr 14 2023 // New Jersey authorities on Wednesday arrested a small-town police chief, charging him with sexually assaulting subordinates over more than a decade, while also announcing misconduct charges against another police chief who...
Update: 100% of New Jersey Forest Fire Contained
Apr 13 2023 // A substantial wildfire in Manchester Township in New Jersey on federal, state and private property, which reached 3,859 acres in size, has been 100% contained, the state’s forest fire service reported Thursday. The...
Firefighters Contain New Jersey Forest Fire That Threatened 15 Homes
Mar 9 2023 // LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. (AP) – A wind-whipped forest fire in the southern New Jersey Pinelands that threatened 16 homes Tuesday was fully contained by nightfall, and firefighters said they believed the homes were no...
World Insurance Adds New Jersey’s Katz/Pierz Agency to Its Team
Mar 2 2023 // Broker World Insurance Associates reports that it has acquired the business of Katz/Pierz of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Katz/Pierz was founded in 1987 by Aaron Katz and Donald...
New Jersey Beach Town Fined $12M Over Unapproved Past Construction Work
Feb 27 2023 // NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — The sandstorm being waged between New Jersey environmental officials and a defiant shore town bolstering its dunes without state permission is intensifying. The state Department of...
Thunderstorms, Possible Tornadoes Ravage Central New Jersey
Feb 23 2023 // After a rare tornado warning was issued Tuesday, a strong line of thunderstorms ripped through central New Jersey with powerful winds that caused many trees to be ripped out of the ground in Pennington and West Windsor....
Excess Insurer Pays Before Municipal Pool in Boy’s Beach Death, New Jersey High Court Rules
Feb 17 2023 // AmeriTrust subsidiary Star Insurance Co. must pay the $9 million balance of a $10 million settlement in the death of a 12-year old boy who died after a trench he dug on a Long Branch, New Jersey beach collapsed on...
New Jersey Supreme Court Remands Workers’ Compensation Fraud Case for Allocation of Fault
Feb 16 2023 // There will be a jury retrial on allocation of liability in a New Jersey workers’ compensation premium fraud case won by Liberty Insurance Corp. against a construction firm. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled...
