Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Nov 2 2008 // The Hartford, Allianz SE The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. finalized a $2.5 billion capital investment by Allianz SE. Under the agreement, Allianz purchased, at $31 per share, $750 million of preferred shares...
High Point Auto Insurance Offers New Jersey Chamber Members Discount
Oct 29 2008 // The 500,000 employees of the member companies of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce are now eligible for a discounted auto insurance program. The deal is being offered in a partnership with High Point Safety and Insurance...
Audit: N.J. Workers Comp Board Head Spent $55K on Travel, Candy
Oct 23 2008 // Auditors say the head of New Jersey’s Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau charged $55,000 on a state credit card for travel, meals and chocolates over 21 months. The audit is the first for the agency that helps...
Former New Jersey Legislator Sentenced in Insurance Bribery Case
Oct 23 2008 // A former New Jersey assemblyman and north Jersey mayor has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison and nine months of home confinement for his role in a bribery scandal that brought down 12 people, including 11...
Wells Fargo Acquires Emar Group
Oct 20 2008 // San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Insurance Services, part of Wells Fargo & Co., has acquired the EMAR Group, an independently owned commercial insurance agency headquartered in Livingston, N.J., with an office in...
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...
