Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Massachusetts Man Charged with Staging Crash Found in New Jersey
Oct 16 2008 // A Lawrence, Massachusetts man wanted for allegedly helping stage a car crash that resulted in the death of a great-grandmother and led to a statewide crackdown of auto insurance fraud has been arrested in New...
New Jersey Skylands Insurance Introduces OneChoice Auto
Oct 15 2008 // New Jersey drivers have a new option for insuring their vehicles. New Jersey Skylands Insurance is now offering its expandable OneChoice Auto in the Garden State. OneChoice Auto features protection for liability, medical...
New Jersey Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Package
Oct 9 2008 // New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has signed a package of five bills lawmakers hope fill strengthen the state’s workers’ compensation system to better protect workers injured on the job. The package of bills...
N.J. Scraps Rebuilding Fee
Oct 6 2008 // Homeowners in New Jersey won’t have to pay the state an extra fee to rebuild their houses after a fire or flood. The state’s Council on Affordable Housing proposed an exemption to regulations it passed in June...
New Jersey Agent Elected to PIA’s Board of Directors
Oct 3 2008 // The former president of the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey has been elected to the board of directors for the trade group’s national association. Andrew C. Harris will represent New Jersey’s...
New Jersey Scraps Fee for Rebuilding Damaged Homes
Sep 24 2008 // Homeowners in New Jersey won’t have to pay the state an extra fee to rebuild their houses after a fire or flood. The state’s Council on Affordable Housing proposed an exemption. The council had come under fire...
Poll: Few New Jersey Residents Support Lower Drinking Age
Sep 16 2008 // A new poll shows few New Jersey residents support lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18. A Fairleigh Dickinson-PublicMind poll shows just 18 percent of New Jerseyans surveyed would support lowering the age, while 76...
Proposals Aim to Make New Jersey More Corporate-Friendly
Sep 16 2008 // Meeting for the first time since the summer recess, the New Jersey Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee this week debated several bills proposing reforms in the way corporations conduct business. The...
Wells Fargo Insurance Acquires Herder – Tarricone in New Jersey
Sep 11 2008 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Inc. reported that it has acquired the assets of Three Bridges, New Jersey’s Herder – Tarricone Associates. Herder – Tarricone Associates provides insurance, employee...
In New Jersey, Hanna Causes Flooding, Power Outages
Sep 8 2008 // Tropical Storm Hanna brought heavy rains and high winds to New Jersey on Saturday, but no major weather-related problems were reported as the fast-moving storm made its way along the coast Saturday night. Forecasters said...
New Jersey Drunken Driving Deaths Drop 6 Percent
Sep 2 2008 // Drunken driving deaths are decreasing in New Jersey. According to new federal data released Thursday by AAA Mid-Atlantic, there were 47 fewer DUI-related deaths in New Jersey in 2007 than the year before. That’s a 6...
Business Moves
Sep 1 2008 // Aon, Benfield Chicago-based Aon Corp. is acquiring UK-based broker Benfield Group Limited for about $1.75 billion. The price includes $6.55 (£3.50) per share in cash and assumption of $170 million (£91 million) of...
New Jersey Forest Fire Still Burning
Aug 28 2008 // Firefighters have been able to keep a southern New Jersey forest fire from spreading, though they have not been able to contain it entirely or put it out. The fire in a remote section of the Wharton State Forest in Camden...
New Jersey Court Limits Broker Duty of Care
Aug 21 2008 // Agents in New Jersey are praising a recent court decision that limits an agent’s duty of care when a client misrepresents himself. The ruling stems from a suit brought by Harbor Commuter Services, a ferry operator in...
New Jersey Mayor Gets 21 Months for Insurance Fraud Scheme
Aug 18 2008 // Former Passaic, New Jersey Mayor Samuel Rivera was sentenced Friday to nearly two years in prison and a $4,000 fine for accepting cash bribes in exchange for influencing city contracts. Rivera, who was caught in a...
More New Jersey Drivers Using Seat Belts
Aug 8 2008 // Slightly more New Jerseyans are using seat belts. The state Division of Highway Traffic Safety says May’s “Click It or Ticket” survey found 91.75 percent of drivers using their seat belt. That’s up...
Utah’s Jack Byrne Legendary in Insurance Circles
Aug 7 2008 // Jack Byrne’s magic business touch has been all about the basics paired with high drama. Once hailed as the Babe Ruth of insurance, he was the man who long ago saved Geico, the automobile insurer that later became a...
N.J. High Court: Annoying Not Harassment
Aug 6 2008 // An annoying person isn’t necessarily a sexual harasser, according to the New Jersey Supreme Court, which earlier this week ruled two women who were students at the Princeton Theological Seminary cannot sue the school...
New Jersey Man Injured by Golf Ball Launched by Mower Gets $725K
Aug 1 2008 // Landscapers in New Jersey better check for golf balls before mowing. That’s because a Monmouth County man who got glass in his eye when a golf ball struck his window has received a $725,000 settlement. Defendants in...
N.J.’s Palisades Acquires Proformance Insurance
Aug 1 2008 // New Jersey’s Palisades Safety and Insurance Association has taken a step to expand beyond auto insurance by acquiring the National Atlantic Holdings Corp., including its subsidiary, The Proformance Insurance...
