Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AIA Says Consumer Group Report on N.J. Med-Mal is Misleading
Feb 6 2003 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) said that a “new” study released on Jan. 31, by Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR) outlining supposed reasons for the medical malpractice crisis in New Jersey is...
NJ Doctors Start Slowdown Today to Protest High Med Mal Costs
Feb 3 2003 // Many doctors across New Jersey are expected to join a “slowdown” in providing non-essential medical services, scheduled to begin today, to protest rising medical malpractice premiums, and to dramatize their...
NAII Seeks Clarification in N.J. Abuse Protection Bill
Jan 30 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers indicated that certain provisions in New Jersey Assembly Bill 689, designed to protect abuse victims, could actually do further harm by allowing abusive spouses to collect...
MIIX Advantage Raises Money to Support Local Charities
Jan 22 2003 // Employees from New Jersey’s MIIX Advantage™, the newly reorganized operating entity of New Jersey State Medical Underwriters, Inc., one of the state’s principal medical liability insurers, were active in a...
NJ Governor McGreevey Outlines Auto Reform Plans in State Of The State Address
Jan 15 2003 // New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. James McGreevey received plaudits from the insurance industry following his remarks in his “State of the State” address that he would vigorously pursue reforms in the auto...
ACE Contributes $1M to The Salvation Army to Aid N.Y., N.J. Families
Dec 31 2002 // ACE Limited announced that, as a part of their five-year commitment to aid the families of victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy in the United States, the company has chosen The Salvation Army to be the second recipient of...
N.J. Insurance Dept. to Investigate Insurers’ Refusal to Sell Basic Policies
Dec 24 2002 // New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke has ordered an investigation into the refusal of auto insurers to sell the state’s Basic Policy, a low-cost plan mandated by law since 1998. The Commissioner’s...
Coalition Circulates Petition Urging N.J. Auto insurance Reform
Dec 17 2002 // The Coalition For Auto Insurance Competition, an alliance of insurance and other business associations, announced plans to circulate a petition among New Jersey residents urging the state legislature to pass the The New...
Let’s Reform the Texas Insurance Market the Right Way
Dec 16 2002 // Oklahoma Insurance Commis-sioner Carroll Fisher put it best when he recently said, “The best regulator of insurance rates is the consumer. For all the hard work state employees do to regulate insurance companies,...
Conventus Approved to Underwrite Med-Mal in New Jersey
Dec 10 2002 // Conventus Inter-Insurance Exchange, a Woodbridge, N.J.-based medical malpractice insurance company owned and governed by physicians, announced that the New Jersey Banking and Insurance Department has issued it a...
United Risk Management Under Investigation
Oct 30 2002 // A spokesperson for the New Jersey Department of Insurance confirmed that United Risk Management Services, a managing general agency headquartered in New Jersey, is under investigation by that department for issues...
N.J. Lawmakers Urged to Pass Med-Mal Reform
Oct 29 2002 // The New Jersey Hospital Association is pressing legislators to approve legislation to alleviate the state’s medical malpractice liability crisis. Two measures, S-1902 and S-1977, are on the Committee’s meeting...
United Risk Management Under Investigation
Oct 29 2002 // A spokesperson for the New Jersey Department of Insurance confirmed that United Risk Management Services, a managing general agency headquartered in New Jersey, is under investigation by that department for issues...
AAI Backs N.J. Anti-Fraud Initiatives
Oct 10 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) applauded anti-fraud initiatives unveiled by New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey during the 5th Annual New Jersey Insurance Fraud Summit. “The measures announced today by the...
AIA Applauds N.J. Tort Reform Bill
Oct 3 2002 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) applauded a bill introduced by New Jersey State Senator Joe Kyrillos Jr. that would establish caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice liability suits. “The...
N.J. Commissioner Launches Last Chance Program
Sep 30 2002 // New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke announced the launch of the “Last Chance” program as a way for uninsured motorists to obtain coverage without having to pay all of the surcharges usually levied for...
CAIC Appeals to N.J. Consumers to Push for Auto Reform
Sep 26 2002 // The Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition (CAIC), an organization advocating reforms of New Jersey auto insurance laws, has begun launching television and newspaper ads in an effort to enlist consumer support for its...
AIA: N.J. Auto Crisis Will Persist Despite DOBI Efforts
Sep 17 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) has devised a program to assist the state’s auto policyholders find new coverage in light of State Farm Indemnity’s pending non-renewal of 4,000 polices...
N.J. Department Approves NIP’s Plan to Form a New Medical Professional Liability Exchange
Sep 12 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance has approved National Insurance Programs’ (NIP) plan to form the Conventus Inter-Insurance Exchange, a physician owned and governed medical professional liability...
Palisades Acquires N.J. Auto Lines from American Financial, The Hartford
Sep 10 2002 // Subsidiaries of American Financial Group Inc. and The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced transfers of their New Jersey personal auto businesses to units of Palisades. American Financial subsidiary Great...
