Latest New Jersey Headlines
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Minnesota Sues Opioid Maker Insys Over Improper Drug Marketing
Jun 1 2018 // Minnesota on May 30 became the latest state to sue Insys Therapeutics Inc., accusing the drugmaker of illegally marketing a powerful fentanyl-based pain medicine, while a former employee pleaded guilty in New Jersey over...
Ex-CFO in New Jersey Gets Prison Term for Stealing More Than $1M
May 25 2018 // The former chief financial officer of a New Jersey orthopedic care provider is headed to prison for stealing more than $1 million from the company for his personal use. Harry Wolfmuller received a two-year sentence...
New Jersey Reminds Residents, Insurance Companies to Prepare for Hurricane Season
May 22 2018 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is urging the insurance and banking companies it regulates, as well as New Jersey residents, to prepare now for hurricane season, which officially begins June 1. All...
Investigators Probe Cause of New Jersey School Bus Crash That Killed Two
May 21 2018 // First, a scraping sound. Then, chaos and panic as a bus taking a group of fifth-graders on a field trip collided with a dump truck and toppled over on a busy highway, killing a student and a teacher and injuring dozens of...
N.J. Manufacturer Faces More Than $435K in Penalties for Workplace Safety Failures
May 21 2018 // New Jersey plastics manufacturer Douglas Stephen Plastics Inc. has been cited for exposing employees to safety and health hazards at its Paterson, N.J., facility. It faces penalties of $435,679. The U.S. Department of...
N.J. Roofing Contractor Cited for Safety Hazards, Could Face $221K in Fines
May 21 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited roofing contractor John Prevete Framing LLC for exposing employees to safety hazards while performing residential...
Report Shows Far to Go for NJ Transit to Hit Safety Deadline
May 18 2018 // New Jersey Transit had installed a federally mandated emergency braking system on less than 10 percent of its fleet of locomotives nine months before the deadline, according to a progress report covering the first quarter...
Preferred Property Program Names Dow Vice President of Programs in New Jersey
May 18 2018 // Preferred Property Program (PPP), a national managing general agency, has named Wayne Dow vice president of programs. Dow will be joining the Bell Works office in Holmdel, N.J., to oversee the marketing of PPP products to...
Man Struck, Dragged by Bus Settles Lawsuit with New Jersey Transit for $2.3M
May 16 2018 // A New Jersey man who was struck by a bus and dragged for nearly two miles has settled his lawsuit with New Jersey Transit for $2.3 million. A lawyer for the firm that handled 63-year-old Seres Arpad’s case confirmed...
NJ Transit to Reduce Trains to Try and Meet Safety Deadline
May 8 2018 // New Jersey Transit said Thursday it will reduce its train service over the next several months as it tries to install a federally mandated safety system by a Dec. 31 deadline. Last week, the Federal Railroad Administration...
New Jersey’s NJM Insurance Group Elects Livingston as President and CEO
May 7 2018 // The board of directors of NJM Insurance Group formally approved the election of Mitch Livingston to the position of president and CEO at its meeting on April 27. NJM is a West Trenton, N.J.-headquartered workers’...
Business Moves
May 7 2018 // Sedgwick, Cunningham Lindsey Memphis, Tenn.-based global claims services firm Sedgwick has finalized the acquisition of competitor global loss adjusting and claims management firm, Cunningham Lindsey and its...
Lawsuits Seek to Hold Opioid Makers Responsible for Insurance Premium Hikes
May 3 2018 // Makers and distributors of the prescription opioids that triggered a U.S. public health crisis are responsible for a rise in health insurance premiums, according to first-of-their-kind lawsuits filed in five states. The...
N.J. Roofing Contractor Cited for Safety Hazards, Could Face $221K in Fines
May 2 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited roofing contractor John Prevete Framing LLC for exposing employees to safety hazards while performing residential...
New Jersey Siblings Convicted in Multi-Million Dollar Invoice Scheme
Apr 30 2018 // Two New Jersey siblings have been convicted of running a multi-million-dollar invoice scheme that defrauded a company where one of them worked. Shevandra Verasawmi, of Matawan, N.J., and Vishallie Verasawmi, of Green...
N.J. Manufacturer Faces More Than $435K in Penalties for Workplace Safety Failures
Apr 27 2018 // New Jersey plastics manufacturer Douglas Stephen Plastics Inc. has been cited for exposing employees to safety and health hazards at its Paterson, N.J., facility and faces penalties of $435,679. The U.S. Department of...
Florida Man Sentenced in N.J. for Filing More Than $1.2M in Fraudulent Insurance Claims
Apr 26 2018 // A Florida man was sentenced to nine years in state prison for filing more than $1.2 million in false claims for refrigerated cargo purportedly spoiled in cross-country transport by his long-haul trucking companies based...
Fire Does More Than $1M in Damage to New Jersey Home
Apr 24 2018 // Fire officials say a blaze that injured two firefighters did more than $1 million in damage to a New Jersey home. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the fire at the three-story Ventnor Heights home was reported...
N.J. High Court Rules That Phantom Vehicles Can Be Allocated Fault
Apr 23 2018 // The case of Mark R. Krzykalski v. David T. Tindall involves an auto accident where both the plaintiff and the defendant were in the left lane turning left through an intersection. An unidentified driver turned unexpectedly...
Pennsylvania Man Charged With Filing Fraudulent Insurance Claims in New Jersey
Apr 16 2018 // A Pennsylvania man has been charged with filing nearly $50,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for items allegedly lost or stolen while he was traveling around the country. Robert Cirino of Reading, Penn., was indicted on...
