Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former New Jersey Cop Wins $5M in Lawsuit Against State Police
May 13 2010 // A former municipal police officer who sued a New Jersey state trooper for excessive use of force has been awarded $5 million. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority says it plans to appeal the jury’s decision. Gary Wade,...
New Jersey Court Reverses Ruling in Insurance Records Case
May 12 2010 // A New Jersey court has found that records of settlements reached by insurance companies on behalf of government entities should be open to the public. In 2008, lawyer Mark Cimino asked used the state’s Open Public...
New Jersey Targeting Growth in Captive and Reinsurance Markets
May 11 2010 // New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Tom Considine praised new, bipartisan legislation that would grow the reinsurance market and create a captive insurance market in the Garden State. The captive insurance bill was put...
Seven North Jersey Residents Charged In Auto “Give Up” Scheme
May 6 2010 // Seven New Jersey residents have been charged with insurance fraud and related charges for lying to police that their cars had been stolen in order to collect insurance money, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office...
Few New Jersey Teens Comply with Driver Decal Law
May 5 2010 // Few New Jersey teen drivers are complying with the nation’s first law that requires them to display decals on their license plates. Fewer than one in four had purchased decals when the new law went into effect on...
Master Agency Launched in New Jersey
Apr 29 2010 // Two New Jersey insurance agencies have joined forces to launch a master agency named Consolidated Insurance Agents. Pavese McCormick Insurance Agency, of Monmouth Junction, and Valvano Insurance Agency, of Linden, say the...
Ratings Roundup: Reserve National, Alaska Timber, State Farm (NJ)
Apr 29 2010 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services is keeping its ‘A’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Reserve National Insurance Co. on CreditWatch with negative implications. “We had...
Families Settle for $2.25M with New Jersey City over Car-Trunk Deaths
Apr 27 2010 // The families of three New Jersey boys who died in the trunk of a parked car as police searched for them have settled lawsuits against the city of Camden. The families of 11-year-old Anibal Cruz, 6-year-old Daniel Agosto...
New Jersey Blast Burns Three People
Apr 12 2010 // Three men were seriously burned Friday morning when an explosion rocked a northern New Jersey business. The blast at the Clifton conveyor business occurred just after 10 a.m. when a leaky tank on a truck in the...
People
Apr 5 2010 // New Jersey-based Synergy Professional Associates has hired Thomas Dattoli as manager of its professional liability unit. Dattoli will be responsible for underwriting professional and excess liability for lawyers, and...
Explosion Levels House in New Jersey
Apr 5 2010 // Authorities say two people were injured when an explosion leveled a house in South Amboy, New Jersey. Fire Chief Larry Martin Jr. said the victims were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick....
New Jersey Increases Penalties for Crosswalk Violations
Apr 2 2010 // New Jersey drivers are going to face heavier penalties for ignoring pedestrians in crosswalks. State officials on Wednesday announced toughened laws aimed at pedestrian safety. They say New Jersey’s rate of...
Brown & Brown Acquires Two New Jersey Underwriting Units
Mar 19 2010 // Brown & Brown Inc. will acquire New Jersey-based Excel Underwriters Alliance Inc. and Spirit Underwriters Inc., the Florid-based brokerage announced. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Excel and Spirit offer...
Investigators Still Probing Major New Jersey Fire
Mar 16 2010 // Investigators continue to seek the cause of a massive, wind-swept fire that destroyed four homes and a nearby historic inn in central New Jersey. Three other homes were damaged in Saturday’s blaze in Ocean Grove,...
Judge Dismisses Suit over New Jersey Teen Driver Decals
Mar 10 2010 // New Jersey judge has upheld a new law that requires drivers younger than 21 to display identifying decals on their vehicle license plates. State Superior Court Judge Robert Brennan dismissed a lawsuit brought by Gregg...
New Jersey Assembly Panel Advances Distracted Driver Bill
Mar 8 2010 // Police in New Jersey may soon have to note whether a driver was distracted before having an accident. A bill approved by an Assembly committee last week requires officers to check a box describing the type of...
New Jersey Insurance Agent Indicted for Stealing $300K in Premiums
Feb 24 2010 // The former CEO of a now-defunct insurance agency in New Jersey has been indicted for stealing over $300,000 in commercial insurance premiums. Richard Pisacane, former head of Bayonne-based Northern Financial Group, has...
Business Moves
Feb 21 2010 // OneBeacon, Tower Group Massachusetts-based OneBeacon Insurance Group has agreed to sell its personal lines business to Tower Group Inc. in a deal that comprises two affiliate insurers and two reciprocal insurance exchanges...
New Jersey Court: Coffee Break-Injury Gets Full Disability
Feb 7 2010 // A New Jersey plumber who was severely injured while driving to a coffee break can collect full workers’ compensation benefits, a Superior Court has ruled. The decision centers on injuries suffered by Jesse J. Cooper...
Best Comments on Tower Group; OneBeacon Personal Lines Buy Impact
Feb 3 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has commented that the financial strength ratings (FSR) of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a-” of the New York-based Tower Group Companies, its pooled members and...
