The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a legal agreement with D.S.C. of Newark Enterprises, Inc. to obtain $1.6 million spent by the EPA to clean up the Friction Division Products site in Lawrenceville, N.J. The site, formerly home to Friction …
Losses from previous storms are helping to drive up New Jersey’s auto insurance rates, which are already the highest in the nation. The Record newspaper reports the state approved increases for 26 insurance companies this year, including top insurers Allstate, …
State police say a blown tire caused a tour bus crash on a central New Jersey highway last weekend. Fourteen people suffered minor injuries, mostly bumps and bruises, in the accident that occurred Saturday afternoon on Interstate 295 in Mercer …
Insurance regulators in New Jersey and New York—the two states hardest-hit by Sandy—report that insurers have settled 93 percent of the claims they received in the wake of superstorm Sandy, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). More than half …
New Jersey officials plan to unveil a plan in the next two to three weeks for buying out roughly 1,000 flood-prone homes from owners who want to sell them, a state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said Tuesday. Since Superstorm …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has settled 96 percent of the post-Superstorm Sandy National Flood Insurance Program claims in New Jersey. The agency says that as of Tuesday, there had been 74,825 claims filed and 70,689 had been …
In a bulletin issued on March 28, the New Jersey Department of Banking & Insurance advised all property casualty insurers operating in the state that any unresolved first party claims against homeowners, auto and commercial insurance insurance policies may be …
Seven people have been taken to a hospital after a man discharged a fire extinguisher in Atlantic City’s Public Safety Building. People are returning after the building, which houses police and fire officials, was evacuated Tuesday morning. Sgt. Monica McMenamin …
Mary Brooks’ apartment was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy. She spent five months homeless, bouncing between hotels, a friend’s house and a dormitory at a hospital where her roommate was being treated. Friday, she was finally able to utter a phrase …
Authorities say a man assaulted a woman and stole a car she was sitting in before leading police on a pursuit that ended when he crashed into a central New Jersey Cadillac dealership, damaging a dozen vehicles. Middlesex County prosecutors …
