All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2002 // OneBeacon Insurance, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. announced the formation of New Jersey Skylands Insurance Group as part of a restructuring of its New Jersey Personal Lines operation....
Aug 6 2002 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke issued her conditional approval of MIIX Advantage, a new medical malpractice insurer that will begin writing policies by Sept. 1.“The Department’s...
Aug 2 2002 // Ohio Casualty Corporation, based in Fairfield, Ohio, announced net income of $13.1 million, or $0.21 per share, for the second quarter ended June 30. In the same quarter of 2001, the Corporation reported net income of...
Jul 31 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. recently updated its agency handbook to reflect the late-breaking changes to the New Jersey Surplus Lines Guaranty Fund. The changes limit the applicability of the fund...
Jul 31 2002 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) state rankings of auto insurance premiums, released last week, is “nothing more than an exercise in irrelevance and a misleading barometer of who pays...
Jul 30 2002 // Both injured passengers and relatives of eight people killed in the Christmas Eve 1998 crash of a casino-bound bus on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway will split $15 million under a deal that puts to rest 14...
Jul 29 2002 // Aon Corporation has been ordered to pay $6.1 million to former New York Giants football player Phil McConkey after a New Jersey appeals court ruled that he lost a job he took at another insurance company after his...
Jul 12 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) has issued guidelines for authorized companies concerning exclusions on “Mold/Fungus Coverage for Personal and Commercial Lines.”Commissioner Holly C....
Jul 11 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents Associations of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced that they have selected candidates for the National Customer Service Representative of the Year Award, organized by the...
Jun 28 2002 // After months of discussion, and a last minute compromise which assured that State Farm will continue in New Jersey’s automobile insurance market for at least the next three years, Legislators have finally introduced...
Jun 27 2002 // Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey President David J. Madara, CPCU, AAI, took issue with certain aspects of the agreement between New Jersey’s Governor, the Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) and...
Jun 26 2002 // State Farm Indemnity, New Jersey’s largest auto insurer with around 735,000 policyholders, has reached agreement with the governor and the NJ Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) to delay its withdrawal from...
Jun 18 2002 // The New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals held its annual Fun Run last week during the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc.’s annual business conference, raising a record high of nearly $80,000 for...
Jun 17 2002 // The combined meeting of the Professional Insurance Agents of New York and New Jersey, recently held in Atlantic City, heard a number of views from a panel of experts on the current state of the insurance market.The...
Jun 14 2002 // Perhaps inspired by the success of their colleagues in neighboring Pennsylvania, the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) issued a call for the reform of the state’s medical malpractice insurance system.“The...
Jun 13 2002 // New Jersey’s Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition (CAIC) announced that the New Jersey Association of REALTORS® (NJAR), has joined the Coalition in its campaign to reform the state’s auto insurance laws to...
Jun 13 2002 // The New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals announced that Coryn Mastowski, CIC, CPIA, is this year’s recipient of the “Young Insurance Professional of the Year” award. Mastowski received the honor which...
Jun 12 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. announced the election of Officers for 2002-2003, and of seven Directors for three year terms.-David J. Madara, CPCU, AAI, of Moorestown was elected president. He is...
Jun 6 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance’s (DOBI’s) Office of Enforcement and Consumer Protection has approved The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc.’s (PIANJ’s ) quick...
Jun 5 2002 // Holly C. Bakke, Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI), announced plans to take immediate action to protect consumers by implementing six reforms raised by the Auto Working Group,...