All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 3 2001 // New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance is seeking to prolong the state’s largest automobile insurer’s presence in order to give State Farm’s 800,000-plus customers time to find alternative...
Aug 28 2001 // The battle over New Jersey’s auto insurance rates and regulations, which began when State Farm Indemnity, the largest writer in the State, announced its intention to withdraw from the market, continues to rage as the...
Aug 27 2001 // Allstate New Jersey got one of its good hands slapped by an Administrative judge, who ruled that the company had unfairly forced Jennifer Bencivengo into an assigned risk plan following an accident which wasn’t her...
Aug 27 2001 // Overregulation in the auto insurance industry may be an accident that has already happened in some states; but regulators can look to other states as examples of how regulatory requirements can be uniform and yet flexible...
Aug 27 2001 // New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance is seeking to prolong the state’s largest automobile insurer’s presence in order to give State Farm’s 800,000-plus customers time to find alternative...
Aug 21 2001 // New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance is seeking to prolong the State’s largest automobile insurer’s presence for as long as possible in order to give State Farm’s 800,000 plus customers...
Aug 13 2001 // The extensive over-regulation of automobile insurance rates in some states shines a spotlight on the potential benefits of a market-driven approach to oversight, Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA)...
Aug 2 2001 // The extensive over-regulation of automobile insurance rates in some states shines a spotlight on the potential benefits of a market-driven approach to oversight, Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA)...
Jul 27 2001 // TowerStreet, a leading provider of insurance software and services, announced that its Internet exchange has gone “live” in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. SmartWorks™, TowerStreet’s new hosted,...
Jul 16 2001 // First, State Farm Indemnity announced plans to leave New Jersey’s auto insurance market; then it was a subsidiary of American International Group noting similar intentions. Several other companies are now...
Jul 13 2001 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey, Inc. has vigorously defended the position of the R.J. Gaydos Insurance Agency, which has sued the National Consumer Insurance Co. for wrongfully terminating its agency...
Jul 9 2001 // Eric V. Thomas, a New Jersey Dentist, has dropped his suit against the Ford Motor Company following revelations which put in question the cause of his wife’s death in an auto accident in 1997, and established that he...
Jun 25 2001 // State Farm Indemnity announced its intention to stop writing automobile business in New Jersey, pending approval from state regulators, which could take years to complete. Last October, the company applied for a 16.8...
Jun 22 2001 // The break in the dam, that started with the announcement by State Farm Indemnity that it planned to leave New Jersey’s auto insurance market, now threatens to become a flood, as yet another state carrier, Newark...
Jun 21 2001 // Insurance giant American International Group became the second insurance company in two weeks to file a request with New Jersey’s Insurance Department requesting permission to withdraw from the state’s...
Jun 18 2001 // One of New Jersey’s top five auto insurers is considering its options as a result of an announcement last week by State Farm Indemnity Co. which indicated it was withdrawing from selling auto insurance in the Garden...
Jun 14 2001 // State Farm Indemnity announced on June 12 that it intends to stop writing automobile business in New Jersey.The announcement was immediately followed by A.M. Best Co. downgrading the financial strength rating of the Wayne,...
Jun 13 2001 // State Farm Indemnity, New Jersey’s largest auto insurer, announced plans to withdraw from the market citing a failure to obtain regulatory reforms and consistently poor loss experience over the last three...
May 21 2001 // “You’re in good hands.”Those words have a profoundly different context if you happen to be part of a group of individuals who submit “creative” claims to Allstate. In that case, those good...
May 14 2001 // In a move that consolidates all of its business units under one roof, Insurance Services Office Inc. has relocated the company’s international headquarters to the Newport World Business Center. The relocation unites...