All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2004 // PIA Management Services Inc. announced the recent selection of Kenneth Bessette as its president and chief executive officer succeeding outgoing President James E. Reed who had held the position for the past 20 years.The...
Mar 22 2004 // Sex abuse victims in New Jersey would be able to seek damages from churches and other nonprofit organizations under terms of a bill approved by a state Senate committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee also added an...
Mar 22 2004 // New Jersey Governor James McGreevey took further steps Monday toward a consumer-directed, competitive auto insurance market, announcing the adoption of additional consumer initiatives as part of his auto insurance reforms...
Mar 19 2004 // NJBIZ, New Jersey’s premier business magazine, has honored Eric Poe, vice president of marketing and business development for NJ PURE (medical malpractice insurance) and vice president of operations for NJ CURE (auto...
Mar 19 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced the arrest of two Pennsylvania insurance brokers on charges they stole more than $100,000 in client insurance premium monies which were supposed to be used to purchase...
Mar 18 2004 // According to New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance, the state’s innovative Auto Insurance Purchasing Planner has been used by more than 6,500 consumers shopping for auto insurance since the program...
Mar 16 2004 // An editorial that appeared in the Newark Star-Ledger on March 4 evoked a positive response from the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.PCI Northeast Regional Manager Richard Stokes, in a letter to the...
Mar 15 2004 // New Jersey lawmakers in the Assembly are scheduled to vote on medical malpractice, patient safety and rate regulation legislation today, after votes were delayed last week.The medical malpractice funding bill creates a $90...
Mar 12 2004 // A New Jersey legislative task force has recommended that the state mandate safety training for all boat operators. If the state does not do that, it should at least require insurers to provide premium discounts to those...
Mar 11 2004 // The Minnesota Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court decision in applying the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act on a nationwide basis by virtue of the certification of a nationwide class.“While the Supreme...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Mar 8 2004 // Florida-based Brown & Brown, Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of Statfeld Vantage Insurance Group and Waldor Agency, Inc. Both are located in Florham Park, New Jersey.Joint announcements were made by...
Mar 8 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) has issued a bulletin applauding the state’s Insurance Commissioner, Holly Bakke and the Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) for the new...
Mar 4 2004 // The planner will be posted on the department’s Web site following a demonstration of its use this afternoon at 1 p.m. by Bakke.http://www.state.nj.us/dobi/index.shtml With interest rates slipping and the stock market...
Mar 4 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke will unveil the Auto Insurance Purchasing Planner today. This Internet-based program is designed to help New Jersey drivers understand the insurance coverage...
Mar 4 2004 // The publishers of e-Insurance Marketer and digital insurance agency, The Credo Group, announced it would hold its e-Insurance Conference on May 17, 2004 in Princeton, N.J.The conference, which has been created especially...
Mar 3 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke announced this week that the competitive auto insurance marketplace that is emerging in New Jersey reportedly as a result of Governor McGreevey’s reforms is...
Mar 2 2004 // American Wholesale Insurance Group, a large independent wholesale insurance broker, has acquired New Jersey-based Property Risk Services, LLC. (PRS), a property wholesale brokerage group.“The addition of PRS...
Feb 23 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County man, previously sentenced to 10 years in state prison for stealing more than $140,000 in Sept. 11 survivor benefits, has admitted committing...
Feb 20 2004 // The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously reversed an appellate court decision by upholding a state law that bars the right of an uninsured motorist to sue for noneconomic damages resulting from an injury from...