All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 20 2004 // The American Insurance Association joined other groups in commending the New Jersey Supreme Court’s decision in Cavigilia v. Royal Tours of America upholding the state’s “no pay/no-play” statutory...
Feb 19 2004 // In an ongoing effort to reportedly give New Jersey residents the tools they need to choose the auto insurance policy that is right for them, the Department of Banking and Insurance recently released the first Auto Company...
Feb 17 2004 // New Jersey has awarded the Minneapolis-based National Arbitration Forum (NAF) a three-year contract, beginning April 16, 2004, to administer arbitrations for No-Fault Insurance Personal Injury Protection (PIP) disputes...
Feb 12 2004 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Camden County man has pleaded guilty to possessing a phony automobile insurance identification card in order to avoid obtaining legitimate...
Feb 9 2004 // New Jersey’s new image as the poster child for insurance reform was looking a bit tarnished following the publication of statistics released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in January. They...
Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897.“I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...
Feb 6 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America urged New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee members to reject proposed legislation regarding the privacy of financial information, indicating that the current proposals...
Feb 4 2004 // The van Aartrijk Group LLC, a marketing communications firm specializing in insurance and financial services, has named Charles Wasilewski senior associate in conjunction with the opening of a New Jersey...
Jan 27 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County man previously convicted and sentenced to 10 years in state prison for stealing more than $140,000 in 9/11 survivor benefits has admitted committing...
Jan 26 2004 // New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance filed papers in Superior Court last Thursday to protect policyholders and consumers by seeking a liquidation order that would shut down a reportedly financially...
Jan 26 2004 // While everyone agrees that something should be done about Massachusetts’ spiraling auto rates and uncompetitive market, no one seems to be able to agree on just what. When the state’s Department of Insurance...
Jan 23 2004 // Both the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) and the American Insurance Association issued bulletins giving a thumb’s up to the New Jersey’s Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in the...
Jan 19 2004 // Statistics released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners last week, have received widespread coverage in New Jersey. They seem to show that, contrary to industry statements, the state’s auto...
Jan 12 2004 // PIANJ President John D’Agostino Jr., CIC, joined Holly Bakke New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner, and other industry representatives at Governor James E. McGreevey’s press...
Jan 12 2004 // Last month the National Association of Independent Insurers issued a bulletin, which described New Jersey’s auto insurance market as “once the nation’s poster child for the dangers of over...
Jan 12 2004 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company and Encompass Insurance have filed a multi-million dollar civil complaint, under the New Jersey Insurance Fraud Prevention Act against Scott Greenberg D.C., a Central New Jersey-based...
Jan 5 2004 // Brown & Brown, Inc. announced that it has acquired Niagara Risk Management Associates, Inc. And Niagara Benefits Group, Inc., both based in Williamsville,N.Y., and the Pashley Insurance Agency of Marmora New Jersey....
Dec 24 2003 // State insurance regulation is at a critical crossroads and achieving regulatory modernization in states in 2004 must be a top priority for insurers and state regulators, the National Association of Independent Insurers...
Dec 22 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey recently provided input to the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) on several proposed regulations implementing the “Competition and Choice Act signed...
Dec 19 2003 // Alice Ross, an engaging 71-year-old grandmother, died when her Buick was rammed by a car packed with gang members allegedly staging a crash in Brooklyn to make fake injury claims against insurance companies.Increasingly,...