Latest New Jersey Headlines
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New Jersey Utility Reaches $450K Settlement Deadly House Blast
Nov 15 2010 // Public Service Electric & Gas will pay $450,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man killed in a 2008 house explosion. Sixty-six-year-old Richard Haas, who lived alone in the three-story...
Ex-New Jersey School Superintendent Enters Not Guilty Plea
Nov 12 2010 // The former superintendent of New Jersey’s fourth-largest school district has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges. Michael Ritacco entered his plea Wednesday during a brief hearing in U.S. District Court in...
New Jersey Ex-Assemblyman Gets 5 Years for Child Pornography
Nov 4 2010 // The former chairman of the New Jersey Assembly’s insurance committee has been sentenced to five years in prison for distributing child pornography. Former Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen, of Paramus, has also been barred...
New Jersey School Chief Charged in Insurance Kickback Scheme
Oct 25 2010 // The superintendent of New Jersey’s fourth-largest school district surrendered to the FBI on Thursday and was charged with fraud and bribery over an alleged insurance-kickback scheme that federal officials called...
New Jersey to Cite Drivers for Ice and Snow on Cars
Oct 25 2010 // New Jersey drivers are now required to remove ice and snow from their vehicles under a new law that has gone into effect. The law, passed last October, authorizes fines and citations for drivers who fail to clean off their...
Deer Without Appointment Crashes Through New Jersey Vet’s Window
Oct 22 2010 // A deer crashed through a window at a New Jersey veterinarian’s office. Staff, clients and pets escaped without injury when the buck came through Family Pet Hospital in Mount Olive Township Tuesday. Dr. Sue Bliesath...
New Jersey Insurance Broker Pleads Guilty in Loan Scheme
Oct 18 2010 // A former partner in a New Jersey insurance brokerage firm has admitted stealing more than $20 million in a fraudulent loan scheme. Forty-eight-year-old Gavin Gatta of Wayside pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark...
Imprisoned New Jersey Woman Indicted for Auto Insurance Fraud
Oct 15 2010 // New Jersey prosecutors say a woman who is currently serving a five-year sentence for insurance fraud and identity theft has been indicted in a separate insurance fraud scheme to steal over $8,000 from Liberty...
Two Killed as Combine Strikes Power Lines on New Jersey Farm
Oct 14 2010 // New Jersey State Police say a farm machine struck overhead power lines and caught fire, killing two workers and injuring a third. Sgt. Julian Castellanos says a chute on a combine the men were operating snagged...
Florida Medical Malpractice Insurance Market Found in Good Health
Oct 6 2010 // Medical malpractice insurers writing in Florida earned an average return on surplus of 6.6 percent in 2009, their sixth straight profitable year, although their profits were lower than in 2008. That’s one of the news...
Business Moves
Oct 4 2010 // Markel, Hiscox Insurer Markel has acquired the rights to American Live Stock, the animal mortality business of Hiscox Insurance Co. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction, which includes the rights to the...
New Jersey Lawmakers Advance Bill Hiking Cell Phone Fines for Drivers
Oct 4 2010 // New Jersey lawmakers have advanced a bill that would impose heftier fines for talking or texting while driving. The bill approved last month by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee would double the fine for first...
Business Moves
Oct 4 2010 // Markel, Hiscox Insurer Markel has acquired the rights to American Live Stock, the animal mortality business of Hiscox Insurance Co. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the companies said it would close the...
Gremesco Sells Florida Office Only to New Jersey Wholesaler PRS
Sep 27 2010 // New Jersey-based Professional Risk Solutions (PRS), a wholesale insurance broker, has purchased the assets of Gremesco of Florida, LLC, one of seven members of the Gremesco group of companies. All of the other offices of...
Guard Adds Two Field Reps in New Jersey and New York
Sep 23 2010 // Pennsylvania-based GUARD Insurance Group has bolstered its sales staff focusing on the New Jersey and New York. Gary May has been named senior field representative for New Jersey and southern New York. May brings over 25...
New Jersey Advances Bill Hiking Cell Phone Fines
Sep 15 2010 // New Jersey lawmakers have advanced a bill that would impose heftier fines for talking or texting while driving. The bill approved Monday by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee would double the fine for first...
New Jersey Court: Construction Worker Can Sue Employer
Aug 31 2010 // New Jersey workers’ compensation laws do not prevent a construction worker injured in a trench collapse from suing his employer, a state Appeals Court has ruled. The lawsuit — which was originally dismissed by...
Judges Reopen Portions of Bid-Rigging Civil Suit
Aug 20 2010 // A decision by a federal court in Philadelphia has reopened some of the racketeering and antitrust lawsuits that were dismissed three years ago against insurers and brokers who allegedly participated in a bid-rigging scheme...
New Jersey Fire Department Settles Discrimination Case for $15K
Aug 19 2010 // A New Jersey fire department has paid a former volunteer $15,000 to settle her gender discrimination case. As part of the settlement with Merrissa Garretson, members of the Clementon Fire and Rescue company will also...
Cars Explode at New Jersey Taxi Company, Burning Two
Aug 13 2010 // Authorities say a fire in the garage of a New Jersey taxi company caused several cars to explode, burning two employees. Jeff Welz, co-director of North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue, says the fire broke out at Rapido...
