All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 27 2007 // U.S. safety officials have ordered a New Jersey tire importer to recall as many as 450,000 tires that it bought from a Chinese manufacturer and sold to U.S. distributors.Foreign Tire Sales Inc., of Union, New Jersey, said...
Jun 21 2007 // New Jersey officials’ interpretation of a new state law meant to thwart identity theft goes further than lawmakers intended and would impose impractical requirement upon insurance companies, according to an industry...
Jun 20 2007 // Lawyers who helped a heart attack victim win a $13.5 million jury verdict in a Vioxx liability case should be paid about $4 million in legal fees by Merck & Co., a New Jersey judge has ruled.Merck, which made the...
Jun 19 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A+” (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of Travelers Insurance Companies and its P/C members. Best also affirmed...
Jun 15 2007 // New Jersey could become the fourth state to allow police to ticket drivers whenever they’re seen using a hand-held cell phone while driving.An Assembly committee on Thursday was slated to consider a Senate-approved...
Jun 4 2007 // About the Personal Lines Leaders: The Personal Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in April. This list utilizes only the...
Jun 4 2007 // N.J. agents view insurance companies’ real time capabilitiesNearly 150 New Jersey insurance agents recently got a firsthand look at how real time transactions work and save time. The Get Real Time program held last...
May 30 2007 // Outdated maps that don’t take into account years of development are leaving many northern New Jersey residents and builders unaware of actual flooding risks, experts say.Some of the maps of towns along the Ramapo,...
May 25 2007 // “I’m New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, and I should be dead.”So begins Corzine’s public service announcement promoting seat belt use, which was released Thursday. The governor was seriously injured in an...
May 24 2007 // Milton Garcia angrily waved the $46 ticket he’d received for failing to wear a seat belt.“There are people dealing drugs and killing each other,” the Trenton, N.J. resident said Monday morning from his...
May 21 2007 // 1 Brickstreet Mutual Insurance Co. WV 765,9632 Texas Mutual Insurance Co. TX 743,095 3 Old American Cty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. TX 491,6414 SAIF Corp. OR 449,7945 Universal Property & Casualty...
May 21 2007 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) has filed an administrative order alleging CIGNA HealthCare of New Jersey and an affiliate, Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., failed to properly notify 2,123...
May 21 2007 // The 400 insurers of the American Insurance Association have seen the favorable results for the public as well as insurers when states have worked to increase competition and relax unproductive regulatory restraints. Recent...
May 11 2007 // The New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee heard testimony that insurers say could make it more difficult for consumers to choose the level and type of insurance they use.The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
May 10 2007 // Federal officials have approved nearly $7.6 million in aid to victims of last month’s nor’easter in 12 New Jersey counties.The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has registered more than 9,300...
May 10 2007 // Wholesale broker NAPCO has announced that Keith C. Johnson has joined the firm as a placement associate in its Edison, N.J. corporate office.Johnson will work with the NAPCO team to develop new business opportunities and...
May 10 2007 // Twenty-nine year old Peter Webb served his country in the U.S. Marines for eight years. Since then, Sergeant Webb has spent four years serving small businesses as an account manager and producer for an Oklahoma City...
May 7 2007 // N.J. exit“I realize there are a lot of pressing issues in the state, but none more pressing than a hurricane bearing down upon us.” New Jersey Assemblyman Brian E. Rumpf, a Republican from Atlantic, Burlington...
May 7 2007 // DeclarationsN.J. exit “I realize there are a lot of pressing issues in the state, but none more pressing than a hurricane bearing down upon us.”New Jersey Assemblyman Brian E. Rumpf, a Republican from Atlantic,...
May 3 2007 // An Atlantic City insurance consultant pleaded guilty this week to bribing two city councilmen in a corruption scandal that rocked the resort city’s municipal government. Three of the nine people who served on the...