All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 17 2006 // A jury in New Jersey has awarded an Atlantic Highlands man $11.2 million for injuries suffered when a cargo container fell off a truck and onto the driver’s side of his car.Paul Dolan, 42, sued Piscataway-based...
Aug 9 2006 // New Jersey will consider adopting a program that “approaches universal health care” as it seeks to provide health insurance to small businesses and uninsured residents, the governor said recently.Gov. Jon S....
Aug 1 2006 // Flood damage at the New jersey Statehouse parking garage that was built in a Delaware River flood plain has cost the state about $2 million since September 2004, according to state officials.The 1,100-space garage in...
Jul 25 2006 // Standard Analytical Service (SAS) Rating for NJPURE Is Higher Than For The 15 Largest CompaniesPrinceton NJ – New Jersey Physicians United Reciprocal Exchange (NJ PURE), a leading NJ medical malpractice insurer,...
Jul 24 2006 // You don’t need to conduct any kind of sophisticated market research in order to understand the effects of New Jersey’s 2003 auto insurance reform law. Just drive down the New Jersey Turnpike, where you...
Jul 24 2006 // A New Jersey jury found in favor of Merck & Co. Inc. earlier this month, rejecting the claims of a patient who blamed her heart attack on nearly three years of Vioxx use.The jury found that Merck acted responsibly in...
Jul 19 2006 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is expanding its popular Connections Auto product into New Hampshire and New Jersey.Connections Auto is a state-of-the-art, multi-variate auto product with nearly limitless customer...
Jul 13 2006 // Merck & Co., Inc. today said it was pleased that a New Jersey found in its favor, rejecting the claims of a patient who blamed her heart attack on nearly three years of Vioxx use.The jury found that Merck acted...
Jul 12 2006 // Since the inception of a controversial move by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. has taken the position that it is improper for the DMV to include ads from...
Jul 7 2006 // For the second consecutive year, Bollinger, Inc. with New Jersey offices in Short Hills, Moorestown and Princeton, has been selected as one of the Best Places to Work in New Jersey. Bollinger placed #6 in the large company...
Jul 3 2006 // New Jersey state Senator Nia Gill, D-Essex, has sponsored a bill to ban auto insurance companies from taking education and occupation into account when setting policy prices, arguing that the practice is discriminatory and...
Jul 3 2006 // New Jersey state Senator Nia Gill, D-Essex, has sponsored a bill to ban auto insurance companies from taking education and occupation into account when setting policy prices, arguing that the practice is discriminatory and...
Jun 28 2006 // A former Hillside, New Jersey police officer has been sentenced to one year in jail and barred from public employment for taking part in a chop shop insurance scheme.Dennis Melendez, who had been on the Hillside department...
Jun 19 2006 // N.J. pays premiumFlood insurance is a particularly salient issue for my home state of New Jersey. Surrounded by the Delaware River to the west and the Hudson River and Atlantic Ocean to the east, New Jersey is especially...
Jun 15 2006 // Bollinger, Inc., a national privately held insurance broker, has acquired Windsor Benefit Consultants, Inc. and James E. Hopgood & Associates of Denville, N.J. Both firms’ employees will relocate to...
Jun 15 2006 // Auto insurance companies that use a person’s education and occupation to set rates are discriminatory and circumvent laws against using race and income to calculate prices, a state senator said this week.After...
Jun 14 2006 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has elected officers for for 2006-2007, with Andrew Anderson of Beach Haven, N.J., being chosen president. He is executive vice president and secretary of the G....
Jun 13 2006 // Insurance industry representatives urged New Jersey lawmakers not to restrict insurers’ use of certain rating variables including occupation and education in the pricing of auto insurance policies, insisting that the...
Jun 8 2006 // New Jersey Assemblyman Mike Panter (D-Monmouth/Mercer) has filed legisaltion to create a premium-funded state pool to cover homeowners’ losses from natural catastrophes.Panter’s bill (A-3236), the New Jersey...
Jun 7 2006 // New Jersey would become one of a handful of states to require that cigarettes sold in-state have extra fire protections built in, under a measure being considered in the Legislature.The proposal — modeled after similar...