All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 5 2001 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. filed a civil suit Wednesday in Morris County Superior Court against 10 defendants alleging violations of the New Jersey Fraud Prevention Act and the New Jersey Civil RICO Statute, in...
Apr 2 2001 // New York Gov. George Pataki and Acting New Jersey Gov. Donald DiFrancesco have recommended New York State Insurance Superintendent Neil Levin to succeed Robert Boyle as executive director of the Port Authority of New York...
Feb 19 2001 // The signs were there in 2000—and now it can safely be said that prices in the commercial auto industry are definitely firming. But how long it will take the industry to truly return to profitability is still hard to...
Feb 12 2001 // The signs were there in 2000—and now it can safely be said that prices in the commercial auto industry are definitely firming. But how long it will take the industry to truly return to profitability is still hard to...
Feb 7 2001 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Karen L. Suter shared the proposed draft standards with the Territorial Rating Plan Advisory Commission. The 50-year-old rating map used by automobile insurers will be redrawn...
Jan 16 2001 // A New Jersey man was ordered to pay back the more than $65,000 he admitted to stealing from the local township’s fire district. Joseph Greenfield, 63, was sentenced Friday by Ocean County Superior Court Judge Edward...
Dec 8 2000 // Workers’ comp premiums will be reduced by an overall 2.3 percent next year, New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Karen L. Suter announced yesterday.At the same time, weekly benefits to injured workers for...
Dec 7 2000 // New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance is mailing special dividend checks to auto policy holders in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York totaling about $54.6 million. The 324,984 policy holders affected will receive an...
Nov 16 2000 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. filed suit in Morris County Superior Court against 39 defendants alleging violations of the New Jersey Fraud Prevention Act, the New Jersey RICO statute, and several sections of the New...
Nov 16 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. served summons and complaints this week against Scott Greenberg, D.C., a New Jersey chiropractor whom the company claims defrauded personal injury protection benefits through an intricate...
Nov 2 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. has served summons and complaints against New Jersey’s Spring Lake Psychological Group, and its owners Warren L. Goldberg and Carmela Gutierrez, for allegedly engaging in a fraudulent...
Aug 23 2000 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Karen L. Suter authorized the filing of court papers today seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the $50 million assessment on the state’s HMOs to pay for a portion of...
Aug 16 2000 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company filed its second lawsuit Tuesday in the ongoing investigation of a major staged automobile accident insurance fraud ring in Camden County, New Jersey.One hundred seventy-five...
Aug 9 2000 // The Hartford Financial Services Group is accepting applications from members of the Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey over the web for tough-to-place business. The applications are part of the Independent...
Aug 8 2000 // New Jersey regulators have approved the sale of Massachusetts-style savings bank life insurance—a plain term and whole-life coverage not sold by agents. For decades it was available by law only to residents of...