Latest New Jersey Headlines

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Swett & Crawford Buys N.J. Wholesaler Oxbridge

Jan 3 2007 // Wholesale insurance broker Swett & Crawford has acquired the assets of Oxbridge Insurance Associates, Inc., located in Morristown, New Jersey. The venture marks Swett & Crawford’s first acquisition since...

N.J. Eyes Capping Doctors’ Charges for Auto Accident Patients

Jan 3 2007 // New Jersey regulators are considering limiting how much doctors can charge insurers for treating people injured in vehicle accidents, a move meant to cut prices but one foes argue will make it hard to get medical care. The...

Borden Perlman Insurance in N.J. Adds Cammerzell

Dec 29 2006 // Borden Perlman Insurance in Princeton, N.J., a personal and commercial lines agency, has appointed Sarah Willard Cammerzell to the firm’s personal lines department. Cammerzell will oversee sales and marketing for the...

Commerce Group Entering N.Y., N.J. Personal Lines Markets Via State-Wide

Dec 27 2006 // The Commerce Group, Inc., the largest auto insurer in Massachusets, expects to enter the New York personal lines insurance market in 2007. Under the terms of the agreement, ACIC Holding Company, Inc., a subsidiary of...

N.J. Group Working On Mandatory Health Insurance Plan

Dec 26 2006 // New Jersey lawmakers and policy experts are working on a plan to overhaul the state’s health care system that would require all New Jerseyans to carry medical insurance but would keep the policies affordable for...

ALLSTATE: NO NEW RISKS IN CONN., N.J. AND DEL.

Dec 25 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., continuing its reappraisal of its hurricane loss exposure along the East Coast, has decided to stop writing new property insurance policies in all areas of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. The...

Allstate: no new risksin Conn., N.J. and Del.

Dec 24 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., continuing its reappraisal of its hurricane loss exposure along the East Coast, has decided to stop writing new property insurance policies in all areas of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. The...

N.Y.-N.J. Ports Panel Urges Nationwide Cargo Standards, Security Czar

Dec 22 2006 // A port security task force this week urged that the nation adopt mandatory security standards for cargo and that the president appoint a port security czar to coordinate the federal agencies that oversee the nation’s...

For regional carriers, predictive modeling is about more than pricing

Dec 11 2006 // Frank J. Coyne, chief executive officer of Insurance Services Office, recently warned that insurers unable to keep up in the technological arms race face a grim prognosis. The industry leader said a chasm is growing...

Allstate to Halt New Property Business in Conn., N.J. and Del.

Dec 8 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., continuing its reappraisal of its hurricane loss exposure along the East Coast, has decided to stop writing new property insurance policies in all areas of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. The...

Little Rate Relief Found First Year After N.J. Auto Reforms

Dec 4 2006 // A year after New Jersey enacted auto insurance regulation changes meant to reduce rates, state residents were still paying through the nose, according to the latest survey compiled by the National Association of Insurance...

Skylands Gives N.J. Mass Transit Riders a Car Insurance Break

Nov 29 2006 // New Jersey Skylands Insurance Companies has unveiled a promotion that highlights what it says is a first-of-a-kind discount for New Jersey drivers who regularly commute to work via mass transit — a rate discount of...

DiMasi Joins Hanson & Ryan Agency in N.J.

Nov 28 2006 // Hanson and Ryan, Inc. in Totowa, N.J. has hired Jennifer Stalgaitis-DiMasi as an account executive. DiMasi will specialize in risk management for the agency’s business clientele, focusing on small and medium size...

N.J. Indicts Pa. Man for Alleged Role in ‘Give Up’ Auto Fraud

Nov 9 2006 // A Pennsylvania man has been indicted for his alleged role in an auto theft and insurance fraud ring in New jersey, accrding to state officials. New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner and Division of Criminal Justice...

Study Identifies High Costs of Doing Business in Mass.

Oct 30 2006 // A new study by a Boston-based think tank shows that Massachusetts firms in nine selected industries including financial services have costs that are on average 20 percent to 30 percent higher than similar companies in...

N.J. High Court Rules Gays Entitled to Rights, Benefts of Marriage

Oct 25 2006 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that the equal protection clause of the state’s constitution requires that “committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed...

N.J. Forum Supports Female Insurance Agency Executives

Oct 24 2006 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has established the PIANJ Women’s Business Forum to bring together female insurance agency executives. “The PIANJ Women’s Business Forum is designed to...

Doctors Settle Class Action Against N.J.’s Largest HMO

Oct 17 2006 // Doctors have reached a deal to settle their class-action lawsuit claiming New Jersey’s largest health maintenance organization shortchanged thousands of physicians. Under the proposed agreement with Horizon Blue...

Liberty Mutual Defeats N.J. Fraud Network

Oct 12 2006 // A lawsuit against an intricate auto insurance fraud network uncovered by Liberty Mutual investigators in the late 1990s came to a costly end last week for the owners of two now-defunct New Jersey chiropractic and...

Direct Seller 21st Century Enters N.J. Auto Market

Oct 12 2006 // 21st Century Insurance Group, one of the pioneers of selling insurance direct to consumers, today began offering private passenger automobile insurance to drivers in New Jersey. The company becomes the seventh auto writer...