{"id":9753,"date":"2016-11-15T00:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T05:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9753"},"modified":"2016-11-15T01:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T06:40:46","slug":"bricks-insurance-costs-are-down-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/11\/bricks-insurance-costs-are-down-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick&#8217;s Insurance Costs Are Down, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3985\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3985\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township-1024x547.png\" alt=\"Brick Municipal Building \/ Photo: Daniel Nee\" width=\"618\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township.png 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township-400x214.png 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township-150x80.png 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township-500x267.png 500w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township-600x321.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Municipal Building \/ Photo: Daniel Nee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township\u2019s property and liability insurance premium is down this year, the first time the township has put insurance services out to bid, said Mayor John Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>The township council on Monday night awarded a three-year contract to Conner Strong & Buckelew to provide joint insurance services to the municipal government.\u00a0The annual premium of\u00a0$1,891,944 represents a decrease after township officials put new programs into place to increase safety in the workplace and reduce the number of worker\u2019s compensation claims filed.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the township\u00a0able to reduce overall premiums and workers compensation premiums by $127,500 and $104,400, respectively, Ducey said.<\/p>\n<p>Conner Strong & Buckelew had previous provided insurance services to the township, however a long-standing agreement was generally renewed annually without being put out to bid, said Ducey. The company will continue to work with township employees to improve safety programs and reduce costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no broker or middle man involved, and the agency works directly with township staff,\u201d Ducey said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/11\/bricks-insurance-costs-are-down-officials-say\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township\u2019s property and liability insurance premium is down this year, the first time the township has put insurance services out to bid, said Mayor John Ducey. The township council on Monday night awarded a three-year contract to Conner Strong &#038; Buckelew to provide joint insurance services to the municipal government.\u00a0The annual premium of\u00a0$1,891,944 represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,2585,2586],"class_list":["post-9753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-conner-strong-buckelew","tag-insurance-premium"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/checkbook_township.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2xj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}