All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2008 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Steven M. Goldman reported that the state began sending subsidies of $16.4 million last month to eligible medical practitioners in certain high-risk specialties.The subsidy...
Jan 16 2008 // A trade group for insurance companies is lauding the passage of a New Jersey bill that gives companies greater flexibility in the types of investments they can make.The new law, passed earlier this month, expands domestic...
Jan 10 2008 // New Jersey drivers may soon be posing for unwanted portraits.The Legislature this week voted to allow municipalities to install cameras to catch drivers disobeying traffic signals. The bill needs Gov. Jon S....
Jan 7 2008 // An elderly man from New Jersey died after being crushed beneath his own car while trying to maneuver around a shopping cart.Eighty-one-year-old William Peters had the door of his 2000 Mercury open as he was trying to back...
Jan 4 2008 // New Jersey auto insurance agents will have a lot easier time quoting and writing new policies under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Jon S. Corzine.The bill, which had awaited his signature since last month, eliminates the...
Dec 23 2007 // More than 1,000 Michigan residents could end up getting part of a $4.85 billion national settlement if they or their loved ones took the painkiller Vioxx.But that hasn’t squelched a firestorm over the state’s...
Dec 19 2007 // Atlantic County, N.J. has earned a dubious ranking: It’s one of six “judicial hellholes” nationwide, according to one tort reform group.“Personal injury lawyers seem to have gained a monopoly in...
Dec 19 2007 // A Cherry Hill, N.J. dry cleaner now knows how to get on Santa’s naughty list: lose his suit.Donning a new red velvet suit with soft white trim and shiny black boots, a perfectly jolly Max Weisberg arrived through the...
Dec 19 2007 // The New Jersey Turnpike Authority admits it made a mistake suing two dead motorists for damage to the toll road.Four people died and four were injured when a truck loaded with bricks rear-ended a car last year, triggering...
Dec 17 2007 // Buffalo, N.Y.-based Merchants Mutual Insurance Co. said its newly formed subsidiary, Merchants Preferred Insurance Co., has begun writing personal and commercial insurance in New Jersey. Unlike its parent company, which...
Dec 17 2007 // More than 1,000 Michigan residents could end up getting part of a $4.85 billion national settlement if they or their loved ones took the painkiller Vioxx.But that hasn’t squelched a firestorm over the state’s...
Dec 11 2007 // New Jersey insurance agents would no longer be required to offer auto insurance quotes from all of their companies under a bill recently passed by the state’s legislature.The bill, which carries the backing of both...
Dec 10 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has announced various rating actions on insurance companies with public information (pi) ratings. S&P explained that “ratings with a ‘pi’ subscript are...
Nov 16 2007 // New Jersey based Dowell Insurance Agency Inc., and Integrated Assurance Solutions (Dowell / IAS) announced a new marketing alliance with the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute (AWCI) whereby Dowell / IAS will...
Nov 8 2007 // Democrats retained control of the New Jersey Legislature on Tuesday, boosting their Senate majority by one and maintaining their Assembly advantage amid concerns over the state’s highest-in-the-nation property taxes...
Nov 5 2007 // Chicago-based insurance broker Hub International Limited reported that its New York subsidiary has acquired the assets of JM Associates, Ltd. (JM), an agency that has specialized in providing casualty insurance for the...
Nov 4 2007 // A woman injured by a bullet from a drive-by shooting is entitled to recover under her uninsured motorist coverage, according to a New Jersey Appellate Division ruling, even though she was not in her car at the time of the...
Nov 2 2007 // Great American Insurance Group’s Executive Liability Division has opened a new branch office in Princeton, New Jersey and named David Garrison as divisional vice president. Garrison will be responsible for the...
Oct 31 2007 // New Jersey residents with auto coverage from New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co. will soon be receiving dividend checks worth an average of $327.The Ewing-based company says the checks will be mailed from Nov. 19...
Oct 30 2007 // A woman injured by a bullet from a drive-by shooting is entitled to recover under her uninsured motorist coverage, even though she was not in her car at the time of the shooting, according to a New Jersey Appellate...