Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Jersey Agents: Allow Fees for Some Commercial-Lines Services
Feb 11 2009 // A trade group for New Jersey Insurance Agents is applauding proposal that would let agents collect fees from commercial-lines clients for some specialized services. The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey (PIANJ)...
Conn., New York and New Jersey to Get $22M for Displaced Workers
Feb 9 2009 // Connecticut, New York and New Jersey will share a $22 million federal grant to help financial services workers who are losing their jobs because of the financial crisis on Wall Street. Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell says...
Allstate Asks New Jersey for 15.4% Rate Hike
Feb 5 2009 // The right coverage at the right price could cost more in New Jersey. Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. is asking the state for permission to raise rates by 15.4 percent on average. The insurer says the higher premiums are...
New York Wholesalers’ Association Names Cruz to Board
Feb 3 2009 // The Professional Insurance Wholesalers Association of New York State Inc. has appointed Maya Cruz to its board of directors. Cruz, who is vice president of All Risk/CESI LLC in New York City, has served on a number of...
Court: New Jersey Group Not Liable in Drunk-Driving Deaths
Jan 26 2009 // A New Jersey nonprofit group is not liable for providing alcohol at a party where four guests were later killed in a drunk-driving crash, the state Supreme Court has ruled. The court upheld a law that allows licensed...
Engineers: New Jersey Entertainment Complex Site Is Contaminated
Jan 16 2009 // A report says the site of the giant Xanadu shopping and entertainment center under construction in the Meadowlands is contaminated. A project engineer says the environmental hazards could remain. The report, first...
Court: New Jersey Woman Can Pursue Perfume Lawsuit
Jan 12 2009 // A New Jersey woman who claims she was disabled by a co-workers’ perfume can move forward with her worker’s compensation lawsuit, an appeals panel ruled Friday. Doris Sexton sued the county-owned nursing home...
Brown & Brown Insurance Buys New Jersey’s Gallagher Associates
Jan 5 2009 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown, Inc. has purchased the assets of Gallagher Associates in Blackwood, New Jersey. Gallagher Associates, with annualized revenues of approximately $2.0 million, sells...
New Jersey Workers’ Comp Rates Drop, Benefits Rise
Jan 5 2009 // New Jersey’s workers’ compensation insurance premiums will drop by roughly 1 percent in 2009, saving the state’s employers an estimated $33 million. “There are a number of factors that affect...
Bollinger Acquires BK International Insurance Brokers
Dec 29 2008 // Short Hills, New Jersey-based insurance agency Bollinger Inc. has acquired BK International Insurance Brokers of Greenwich, Connecticut. The acquisition is the second this month and the fourth this quarter for Bollinger,...
Other Agency/Brokerage Transactions in 2008
Dec 21 2008 // Transactions involving agencies and brokerages other than the Brown & Brown, Arthur J. Gallagher and Hub International (see below) deals in the months announced or completed: January California: R.E. Chaix &...
Insurers Critical of New Jersey Senate Bill
Dec 18 2008 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) said it strongly opposes a bill recently passed by New Jersey Senate that allows physicians to make self-referrals to their ambulatory surgical centers. PCI said...
Ex-New Jersey Politician Sentenced to Prison for Insurance Fraud
Dec 17 2008 // A former New Jersey Assemblyman who is also a Baptist minister has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Alfred E. Steele pleaded guilty in October 2007 to accepting $15,500 in bribes in exchange for steering...
Five Tow-Truck Workers Arrested in Alleged New Jersey Theft Ring
Dec 9 2008 // Five workers at a north Jersey tow truck company face charges they took cash to steal cars and report them as stolen to insurance companies. North Bergen police say an owner of High Point Towing, which operates in Union...
People
Nov 30 2008 // The Insurance Marketing and Communications Association (IMCA) named Richard Look as president. He is a marketing communications veteran with both agency and insurance company experience, and currently serves as vice...
Liberty Mutual Agency Markets Appoints Northeast Management
Nov 19 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Peerless Insurance – Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies – have announced key management appointments in personal and commercial lines operations for the Northeast Victor M. Pepin has...
New Jersey Bar to Lose License after Patron Killed in Fatal Crash
Nov 18 2008 // A go-go bar that served alcohol to a man who later killed two people in an automobile accident in 2000 has failed in an attempt to save its liquor license. A New Jersey appeals court on Friday upheld the license revocation...
New Restrictions Possible for New Jersey Teen Drivers
Nov 11 2008 // New drivers would have to practice for a year before getting their licenses and would be required to display hang tags on their vehicles identifying them as provisional drivers under a package of bills that gets its first...
Crash Victim’s Widow Sues New Jersey Truck Driver
Nov 10 2008 // A Vermont woman whose husband died when a tractor-trailer slammed into two vehicles is suing the driver for negligence. Forty-two-year-old Kenneth A. Middlebusher, of Deptford, N.J., is charged with gross negligent...
New Jersey Eyes Help for Patients after Medical Errors
Nov 3 2008 // New Jersey hospital patients and the companies insuring them would no longer be on the hook to pay for care after a serious medical error occurs, under legislation introduced this month by a New Jersey assemblyman. The...
