The preparedness of U.S. businesses is still wanting despite lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy and the high hurricane activity, devastation and losses so far this Atlantic hurricane season, suggests Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS).

On Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy devastated coastal areas of New Jersey and New York, causing billions of dollars in damage, and killed dozens of people in the U.S. and Caribbean.

An Ambler, Pennsylvania, man was charged today with using phony documents to collect $252,734 in FEMA-backed disaster benefits and insurance payments that were supposed to be used to cover storm damages to his mother’s property in Ocean City, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.

A U.S. Postal Service worker was charged with stealing more than $75,000 in federal workers’ compensation benefits after he posted vacation photos on Facebook showing him zip-lining and rock rappelling despite being out of work for a wrist injury, authorities said

A township police lieutenant is suing his supervisor, the mayor and others, alleging that he was the victim of retaliation after complaining about irregularities in the officer promotions process.

Lt. Vincent Lamonica, a 25-year veteran of the department, claims in his federal suit that he complained of "corruption" in the promotional process in 2014.

Nationwide might be back on your side. The insurance company has agreed to pay $5.5 million and take other steps to protect customers’ identity as part of a settlement with New Jersey and 31 other states, officials said Wednesday.

A recall on papayas has been expanded to three brands, with more recalls possible, after the Food and Drug Administration narrowed in on the source of a salmonella outbreak that has been blamed for at least one death and has sickened over 100 more dating back to May.

Pay-per-mile insurer Metromile has announced the launch of a new AI claims system designed to eliminate manual processes used to collect accident data and distribute payments to customers.

A driver is lucky to be alive after the SUV he was driving overturned while towing a camper on a busy New Jersey highway Monday afternoon. Police say 66-year-old Roger Logan, of Jackson, New Jersey, was driving southbound near mile marker 101 in Tinton Falls around 4 p.m. when his Ford Expedition overturned along with the camper it was towing.

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in New Jersey anymore. The National Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes did touch down down near Howell in Monmouth County, New Jersey on Saturday morning, part of swift-moving thunderstorms that slammed the region.

A 5-year-old child and a 30-year-old man were killed and three other people were injured after a crash on the upper level of the George Washington Bridge Wednesday night. Around 9 p.m., a GMC Acadia and a box truck crashed on the upper level of the bridge, coming into New York City.

If you want some idea of the complex interconnections of the packaged food industry, just try to figure out how one seemingly innocuous ingredient could lead to massive recalls of millions of units of everything from fish sticks to meatballs to chicken fingers.

A lawsuit filed against Chipotle on Wednesday claims that a federal rule expanding overtime pay to millions of workers is in effect, despite an injunction late last year that banned the Labor Department from enforcing the regulation.

Nearly 6.9 million homes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the United States are at potential risk of damage from hurricane storm surge inundation, according to CoreLogic’s 2017 Storm Surge Report.

Forecasters say the Atlantic could see another above-normal hurricane season in 2017. Forecasters predicted 11-17 named storms, five to nine hurricanes and two to four hurricanes could be "major" with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.