Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.J. Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Phony Auto I.D. Card
Feb 12 2004 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Camden County man has pleaded guilty to possessing a phony automobile insurance identification card in order to avoid obtaining legitimate...
N.J. AUTO MAY NOT BE UNPROFITABLE:
Feb 9 2004 // New Jersey’s new image as the poster child for insurance reform was looking a bit tarnished following the publication of statistics released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in January. They...
No Brake Yet for Personal & Commercial Auto
Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...
PCI Urges Rejection of N.J. Privacy Law Proposals
Feb 6 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America urged New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee members to reject proposed legislation regarding the privacy of financial information, indicating that the current proposals...
The van Aartrijk Group Opens New Jersey Office; Wasilewski Named Senior Associate
Feb 4 2004 // The van Aartrijk Group LLC, a marketing communications firm specializing in insurance and financial services, has named Charles Wasilewski senior associate in conjunction with the opening of a New Jersey...
N.J. Man Charged with Stealing Thousands from 9/11 Disaster Programs Notes Additional Scams
Jan 27 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County man previously convicted and sentenced to 10 years in state prison for stealing more than $140,000 in 9/11 survivor benefits has admitted committing...
N.J. Moves to Protect Policyholders; Files to Liquidate Insurer
Jan 26 2004 // New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance filed papers in Superior Court last Thursday to protect policyholders and consumers by seeking a liquidation order that would shut down a reportedly financially...
Confusion Reigns on the Massachusetts Auto Front
Jan 26 2004 // While everyone agrees that something should be done about Massachusetts’ spiraling auto rates and uncompetitive market, no one seems to be able to agree on just what. When the state’s Department of Insurance...
PCI, AIA Applaud N.J. Wrongful Death Court Decision
Jan 23 2004 // Both the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) and the American Insurance Association issued bulletins giving a thumb’s up to the New Jersey’s Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in the...
N.J. Auto Profits’ IIANJ Disputes Findings
Jan 19 2004 // Statistics released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners last week, have received widespread coverage in New Jersey. They seem to show that, contrary to industry statements, the state’s auto...
PIANJ President Comments on Progress of N.J. Auto Reforms
Jan 12 2004 // PIANJ President John D’Agostino Jr., CIC, joined Holly Bakke New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner, and other industry representatives at Governor James E. McGreevey’s press...
Has the N.J. Auto Market Seen the Last of 30 Years of Mismanagement’
Jan 12 2004 // Last month the National Association of Independent Insurers issued a bulletin, which described New Jersey’s auto insurance market as “once the nation’s poster child for the dangers of over...
Insurers Seek $17 Million from NJ Chiropractors
Jan 12 2004 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company and Encompass Insurance have filed a multi-million dollar civil complaint, under the New Jersey Insurance Fraud Prevention Act against Scott Greenberg D.C., a Central New Jersey-based...
Brown & Brown Announces N.Y./N.J. Acquisitions
Jan 5 2004 // Brown & Brown, Inc. announced that it has acquired Niagara Risk Management Associates, Inc. And Niagara Benefits Group, Inc., both based in Williamsville,N.Y., and the Pashley Insurance Agency of Marmora New Jersey....
Regulatory Modernization Top Priority in 2004 Says Industry Trade Group
Dec 24 2003 // State insurance regulation is at a critical crossroads and achieving regulatory modernization in states in 2004 must be a top priority for insurers and state regulators, the National Association of Independent Insurers...
IIANJ Comments on DOBI’s “Three Scenarios” and Alternate Underwriting Rules
Dec 22 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey recently provided input to the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) on several proposed regulations implementing the “Competition and Choice Act signed...
Coalition Against Insurance Fraud Reports Convictions Rise Nearly a Third
Dec 19 2003 // Alice Ross, an engaging 71-year-old grandmother, died when her Buick was rammed by a car packed with gang members allegedly staging a crash in Brooklyn to make fake injury claims against insurance companies. Increasingly,...
Allstate, Encompass Seek $17 Million in N.J. Fraud Lawsuit against Chiropractors, Related Co.’s
Dec 19 2003 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company and Encompass Insurance announced that they have filed a multi-million dollar civil complaint, under the New Jersey Insurance Fraud Prevention Act, in the Superior Court of Morris...
PIANJ Says N.J. DOBI Accepts Plan for Agents to Recoup Expenses
Dec 17 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey, Inc. has issued a bulletin noting that a reform it has long supported, to allow agents to recoup certain out-of-pocket expenses, has been accepted by the state’s...
Industry People Making Moves in 2003
Dec 15 2003 // As you will probably notice from this list, it is not scientific, preferential, etc. We retraced news coverage of this past year and tried to come to an agreement on who made headlines. We likely left off a few...