All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 8 2003 // The arrival of the first new auto insurer in New Jersey in the past seven years is a positive event for the state’s consumers, according to the Alliance of American Insurers. “The decision by California-based...
Aug 8 2003 // Thursday’s announcement by Governor James McGreevey that Mercury General will begin selling automobile insurance in the Garden State confirms that the strong and positive message sent by the recent passage of the New...
Aug 8 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Hudson County man has pled guilty to theft by deception for conspiring to use false identities to fraudulently obtain more than $2,000 in health insurance...
Aug 8 2003 // Fairfield, Ohio-based carrier Ohio Casualty Corp. announced second-quarter net income of $11 million, or 18 cents per diluted share, down from a year ago’s $13.1 million, or 21 cents per diluted share. The company...
Aug 7 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. will hold a course that offers continuing education credits for both New York state and New Jersey independent agents at its first Hudson Valley Regional Awareness...
Aug 4 2003 // Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced that a former Burlington County, N.J. man has been sentenced for falsely reporting that his automobile had been stolen in order to collect more than $12,000 from an insurance...
Aug 4 2003 // Milliman USA announced that it has opened a new office to provide a full range of services to the property and casualty insurance and re-insurance industries. The new Milliman office will consist of the senior consultants...
Aug 1 2003 // For the past 20 years, the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has hosted its annual PIANJ Golf Classic, which in conjunction with other events including the Fun Run, has raised nearly $1,500,000 for Special...
Jul 31 2003 // New Jersey Commissioner Holly Bakke of the Department of Banking and Insurance recently called for a hearing to determine the availability of medical malpractice reinsurance in the New Jersey marketplace. Her announcement...
Jul 31 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an Essex County doctor and his niece have been charged by the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor with reportedly falsifying...
Jul 30 2003 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) state rankings of auto insurance premiums is “at best a misleading barometer of who pays how much for car insurance in New Jersey,” according to...
Jul 29 2003 // Los Angeles-based Mercury General Corporation reported that net income was $43.4 million, or $0.80 per share (diluted), in the second quarter 2003 compared with $1.3 million, or $0.02 per share (diluted), in the same...
Jul 23 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Passaic County man was sentenced by Union County Superior Court Judge Rudy Coleman on a charge of receiving stolen property for possessing a stolen...
Jul 21 2003 // Penn National Insurance recently hired Bryce Goodwin as its new commercial lines territory manager in northern New Jersey.“Bryce brings more than 25 years of industry expertise and multi-line knowledge to Penn...
Jul 18 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Hudson County businessman has been charged by the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor with stealing more than $300,000 in...
Jul 17 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a former Hudson County podiatrist has been ordered to reimburse the Medicaid Program nearly $6,000 for billing the cost of fraudulently obtained prescription drugs to...
Jul 16 2003 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke announced a broad-ranging agreement recently to protect consumer access to automobile insurance in New Jersey, in which subsidiaries of American International Group...
Jul 16 2003 // New Jersey’s Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Bergen County father and son – the owner and office manager respectively of a Bergen County dental office – have been charged by the Division of...
Jul 15 2003 // New Jersey’s Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an Essex County woman has been charged by the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor with allegedly possessing a...
Jul 7 2003 // The issue of state versus federal regulation of insurance provokes strong opinions and divergent points of view among insurers. Yet there is one point on which we all can agree—consumers are best served by a healthy and...