All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 10 2015 // A New Jersey doctor is headed to prison for accepting $1.8 million in bribes from a medical lab company.Federal prosecutors say Frank Santangelo received a 63-month sentence on Tuesday and will have to serve three years of...
Jul 8 2015 // Two brothers in New Jersey have admitted organizing a scheme to recruit motor vehicle accident victims as patients for chiropractic facilities they controlled.State authorities say 52-year-old Anhuar Bandy and his...
Jul 6 2015 // The outgoing New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski will join AmeriHealth New Jersey as senior vice president of provider contracting and network operations effective July 13, according...
Jul 6 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced on June 22 that Ken Kobylowski, commissioner for the state’s Department of Banking and Insurance, will leave the administration over the next several weeks.Kobylowski was one...
Jun 29 2015 // A Newark, New Jersey, man who committed insurance fraud is now headed to prison.New Jersey state authorities say Derrick Smith recently received a three-year sentence. Smith sought more than $15,000 from his insurer for...
Jun 26 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the tax subsidies for health insureds across the country including those in states without their own health exchanges that use the federal health insurance exchange. The following...
Jun 25 2015 // A New Jersey doctor who took part in a long-running bribes-for-test referrals scheme is now headed to prison.Douglas Bienstock received a 37-month sentence Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. He also will have to serve a...
Jun 25 2015 // Powerful storms that thundered through eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut downed trees and power lines, leaving nearly 400,000 customers without electricity and disrupting mass transit service Wednesday.In...
Jun 23 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday the departure of three long-serving cabinet members: Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski, State Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff and Health Commissioner Mary...
Jun 18 2015 // Todd Fought Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC) in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, hired Todd Fought as assistant vice president – New Jersey territory manager. In this position, Fought’s responsibilities will...
Jun 18 2015 // Authorities have accused a Newark, New Jersey, police captain and a former officer of illegally accessing a private insurance database to sell the information to others.Capt. Anthony Buono of Millstone, New Jersey, and...
Jun 16 2015 // U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is urging Sandy victims to be wary of scam-artists offering to help them navigate through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
Jun 15 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) launched a new career program on Memorial Day, May 25, aimed at supporting the men and women of the armed forces. The program, called the “U.S....
Jun 12 2015 // New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski announced the approval of a new line of authority for HCSG Insurance Corp., a captive insurer formed last year by Healthcare Services Group Inc....
Jun 9 2015 // USI Insurance Services announced that it has acquired the construction insurance and surety business of Chester, New Jersey-based KORE Group Inc., doing business as Construction Agency Professionals (CAP). This business...
Jun 8 2015 // Four people in New Jersey including husband-and-wife chiropractors have been charged with operating a scheme to refer patients to each other to maximize insurance payouts and then hiding the practice by submitting...
Jun 8 2015 // A New Jersey state senator wants to stop smokers from lighting up in vehicles if children 16 and under also are present.Joseph Vitale said the measure he introduced last month would protect children from being exposed to...
Jun 5 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced its acquisition of Solid Benefit Guidance (SBG) in Montvale, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in 2005, SBG is an employee benefits brokerage and...
Jun 1 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed into law on May 7 A-2281/S-1727, which includes the so-called reverse rate evasion as a form of insurance fraud and provides for civil and criminal penalties. The measure targets...
Jun 1 2015 // New Jersey began allowing the state’s motor vehicle operators to display proof of auto insurance in either the physical format (a paper insurance card provided by their carrier) or the electronic format (evidence of...