New Jersey News

Fire Crews on Both US Coasts Battle Wildfires; 1 Death in New York-New Jersey Fire

Fire crews on both coasts of the United States continued battling wildfires on Sunday, including a blaze in New York and New Jersey that killed a parks employee and another in Southern California that destroyed more than 130 structures and …

Fires Flare in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Amid US East Drought

Brush fires broke out in a major New York City park and in New Jersey on Friday as the worst drought in more than two decades gripped the US Northeast. Firefighters worked to extinguish a blaze in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park …

15 Homes Evacuated as Crews Battle Another Wildfire in New Jersey

The latest forest fire to break out in New Jersey spurred authorities to evacuate more than a dozen homes Wednesday as crews worked to contain the blaze, but no injuries or property damage has been reported. The New Jersey Forest …

US Shippers Avoid East Coast Ports on Risk of Second Strike

U.S. shippers are steering clear of East and Gulf Coast ports amid worries the 45,000 dockworkers at those trade hubs will go on strike again if their union leader does not land a new contract with employers by a Jan. …

New Jersey City Votes to Halt Licenses of Gas Stations Tied to Russia’s Lukoil

Reflecting growing animosity across the United States toward Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, lawmakers in New Jersey’s largest city have voted to suspend the licenses of gas stations branded with the name of a major oil company based in …

TikTok Facing Probe by States Over How Platform Markets to Kids

ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok is being targeted by a group of states seeking to determine whether the social media platform is being improperly marketed to children. The states are investigating how TikTok promotes itself to younger users, including techniques to increase …

New Jersey to Bake Climate Change Risk Into Policies, Share Costs

New Jersey will incorporate the impacts of climate change and rising seas into all its major policy decisions in the near future, and will seek to share the costs of protecting the state among all levels of government and the …

Congressional Action Plan on Climate Change Applauded by Zurich, IBHS

A Congressional action plan for a clean energy economy is garnering a bit of praise from a few important names in the insurance industry. The House of Representatives in 2019 established the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis to …

Mgaero Welcomes InsurTech Industry Executive as Head of Business Development

Freehold, NJ, October 17, 2017 — Mgaero welcomes InsurTech industry executive Alex Tsetsenekos as head of business development. Tsetsenekos brings nearly twenty years of diverse leadership experience in the insurance industry to the team. Most recently he was the founder …

Global Aerospace Launches Aviation Professional Services Liability Insurance

Parsippany, New Jersey, September 20, 2017 – Global Aerospace, a leading provider of aerospace insurance, announces the introduction of Aviation Professional Services Liability insurance for the aerospace industry. The coverage will be available to aerospace contractors, aircraft maintenance providers, auditors …