All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2005 // Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.’s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has been turned down by the judge presiding over the case.Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee, who is...
Sep 5 2005 // Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.’s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has been turned down by the judge presiding over the case.Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee, who is...
Aug 26 2005 // Acting New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Codey has signed legislation to prohibit smoking in public and private college and university dormitories.“Today we are creating safer, healthier residence halls,” Codey said....
Aug 22 2005 // Chubb PLI, Hub InternationalChubb Corporation has agreed to sell its Personal Lines Insurance Brokerage Inc. to Chicago-based Hub International Limited. Chubb said the sale would have no material impact on its financial...
Aug 19 2005 // New Jersey Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Passaic County woman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for her role in an automobile “give up” scam.According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor...
Aug 17 2005 // A Hudson County physician who filed a lawsuit against the Medical Society of New Jersey, claiming it and other doctors had conspired to destroy his practice, dropped the suit after two days into a trial.“We opted to...
Aug 15 2005 // A public interest lawyer has charged Republican Douglas Forrester with intentionally skirting New Jersey law by licensing an insurance company out-of-state and using the shell operation to illegally funnel millions in...
Aug 8 2005 // Asked to evaluate insurers in 16 performance categories, agents in the tri-state region of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey rated 14 insurance companies as overall best performers.The winners, in no particular order,...
Aug 8 2005 // 87th PGA Championship Tees-Off at Baltusrol in N.J.Needless to say, all eyes surrounding Baltusrol are towards the skies. If the weatherman cooperates, the 87th PGA Championship in Springfield, N.J., could be one for the...
Aug 8 2005 // Asked to evaluate insurers in 16 performance categories, agents in the tri-state region of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey rated 14 insurance companies as overall best performers.The winners, in no particular order,...
Aug 3 2005 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Gloucester County man has pleaded guilty to theft and falsifying records for fraudulently collecting more than $11,000 in workers’...
Aug 1 2005 // AMEX Assurance Company,of the American Express Property Casualty companies, is now writing insurance policies in New Jersey.AMEX is entering the New Jersey market exclusively through the Internet. Its web site is...
Jul 21 2005 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Acting Commissioner Donald Bryan announced that medical malpractice liability insurer MIIX Insurance Company will continue operating in solvent runoff, a financial condition it has operated...
Jul 20 2005 // Proformance Insurance Company, the largest subsidiary of National Atlantic Holdings Corporation and a domestic New Jersey insurer, today announced that its Loyalty Loss Free Discount Program for its auto insurance...
Jul 18 2005 // New Jersey has brought back to life the state’s consumer advocate office that was killed more than 10 years ago.New Jersey Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey recently signed into law a bill that restores the Department of...
Jul 12 2005 // Tom MacArthur, chairman and chief executive officer of York Insurance Services Group, Inc., was named winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2005 award in the New Jersey region in the business services...
Jul 12 2005 // New Jersey Acting Governor Richard J. Codey today signed into law a bill that restores the Department of the Public Advocate as a government watchdog to act on citizen complaints on insurance, utilities and other issues....
Jul 12 2005 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has obtained an indictment charging a Passaic County couple with insurance fraud for their roles in an...
Jul 4 2005 // A New Jersey Supreme Court decision handed down last month that eliminates a “serious life impact” test under the auto insurance verbal threshold will dramatically increase automobile insurance losses and rates...
Jun 29 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) said Wednesday it is concerned with the New Jersey Assembly’s consideration of A-4401, legislation to impose a possible corporate business tax on insurers...