Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Charges Added for Former New Jersey School Superintendent and Broker
Dec 10 2010 // The government has added more charges in the bribery case against a former New Jersey school superintendent and an insurance broker. In a superseding indictment announced this week, Michael Ritacco and Francis Gartland...
New Jersey Towns Look to Charge Insurers for Fire and First-Aid
Dec 9 2010 // Some New Jerseyans might have to pay if they need the fire department or an ambulance. Salem’s City Council has adopted an ordinance that would allow the fire department to charge to recover costs. The council says...
Report: New Jersey Motorcycle Deaths Drop
Dec 5 2010 // A new report shows a drop in deaths from motorcycle accidents in New Jersey – a change that’s good news for both riders and safety advocates. Overall, 68 people died in motorcycle crashes across the Garden...
Report: New Jersey Motorcycle Deaths Drop
Nov 24 2010 // A new report shows a drop in deaths from motorcycle accidents in New Jersey — a change that’s good news for both riders and safety advocates. “I think it’s great,” Barbara Borowiec, a South...
USI Acquires Kinloch’s New Jersey Business
Nov 23 2010 // New York-based insurance broker USI Holdings has acquired the New Jersey operation of Kinloch Holdings Inc. The unit, based in West Orange, New Jersey, specializes in commercial property casualty and employee benefits...
NJM Insurance Policyholders to Get Dividend Checks
Nov 17 2010 // New Jersey’s largest auto insurer is issuing dividend checks averaging $107 to its policyholders. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company began issuing the checks on Monday. The Ewing-based company says the checks...
Monitor Liability Managers Brings Lawyers Liability Program to New Jersey
Nov 16 2010 // Monitor Liability Managers, LLC (Monitor) has introduced a new lawyers professional liability (LPL) insurance program in New Jersey. The LPL program provides liability protection for law firms [headquartered in New Jersey]...
General Star Expands Admitted Architects, Engineers Product to NY, NJ
Nov 16 2010 // General Star has expanded its architects and engineers professional liability program on an admitted basis to New York and New Jersey. This new feature is part of General Star’s nationwide A & E program, launched...
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...
