All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Dec 19 2003 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company and Encompass Insurance announced that they have filed a multi-million dollar civil complaint, under the New Jersey Insurance Fraud Prevention Act, in the Superior Court of Morris...
Dec 17 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey, Inc. has issued a bulletin noting that a reform it has long supported, to allow agents to recoup certain out-of-pocket expenses, has been accepted by the state’s...
Dec 15 2003 // As you will probably notice from this list, it is not scientific, preferential, etc. We retraced news coverage of this past year and tried to come to an agreement on who made headlines. We likely left off a few...
Dec 15 2003 // As you will probably notice from this list, it is not scientific, preferential, etc. We retraced news coverage of this past year and tried to come to an agreement on who made headlines. We likely left off a few...
Dec 11 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin, which indicates that New Jersey’s auto insurance market, which it described as “once the nation’s poster child for the dangers of...
Dec 9 2003 // New Jersey’s Proformance Insurance Company announced that it will acquire the independent insurance agency-produced New Jersey auto and homeowners insurance business of MetLife Auto & Home for $10 million in...
Dec 9 2003 // Holly C. Bakke, New Jersey’s Commissioner of Banking and Insurance has issued an advisory bulletin too “all private passenger automobile insurers authorized or admitted in this state,” concerning...
Dec 8 2003 // Following a hearing, at which numerous industry representatives testified (See IJ Web site Dec.5), the New Jersey Senate on Friday, in a 5 to 1 vote, refused to send S-2533, the “verbal threshold” bill to the...
Dec 5 2003 // Representatives of the National Association of Independent Insurers, the Alliance of American Insurers and the American Insurance Association voiced unanimous opposition to changes in New Jersey’s “verbal...
Dec 4 2003 // Vaughn McKoy, Director, Division of Criminal Justice, announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has charged a Camden County, New Jersey man with attempted theft, Health...
Dec 4 2003 // Holly C. Bakke, the head of New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance, has issued a bulletin to the state’s licensed surplus lines producers requesting that they advise policyholders about the Legion...
Dec 4 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. recently conferred the New Jersey Certified Insurance Counselor and Certified Insurance Service Representative classes of 2003 in a ceremony at the Trump Taj Mahal in...
Dec 2 2003 // AutoOne Insurance will become the newest carrier to handle New Jersey Personal Automobile Insurance Plan (NJ PAIP) business as a Limited Assignment Distribution (LAD) servicing carrier, beginning Jan.1, 2004.The...
Nov 25 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a former employee of a Hudson County insurance agency has been ordered to pay nearly $4,000 in restitution after reportedly admitting to concocting a scheme to issue...
Nov 20 2003 // New Jersey’s Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke has announced a number of actions, following investigations by the Department’s Market Conduct Unit. It operates within the Office of Consumer...