Latest New Jersey Headlines
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PIANJ Updates N.J. Agency Handbook to Reflect Legislative Changes
Jul 31 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. recently updated its agency handbook to reflect the late-breaking changes to the New Jersey Surplus Lines Guaranty Fund. The changes limit the applicability of the fund...
AAI Characterizes NAIC Report on N.Y., N.J. Auto Costs ‘Misleading’
Jul 31 2002 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) state rankings of auto insurance premiums, released last week, is “nothing more than an exercise in irrelevance and a misleading barometer of who pays...
Passengers, Relatives Settle on N.J. Bus Crash
Jul 30 2002 // Both injured passengers and relatives of eight people killed in the Christmas Eve 1998 crash of a casino-bound bus on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway will split $15 million under a deal that puts to rest 14...
N.J. Appeals Court Upholds Aon Judgment
Jul 29 2002 // Aon Corporation has been ordered to pay $6.1 million to former New York Giants football player Phil McConkey after a New Jersey appeals court ruled that he lost a job he took at another insurance company after his...
NJ DOBI Issues Mold/Fungus Exclusion Guidelines
Jul 12 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) has issued guidelines for authorized companies concerning exclusions on “Mold/Fungus Coverage for Personal and Commercial Lines.” Commissioner Holly C....
NY, NJ and Conn. Select Candidates for National Customer Service Award
Jul 11 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents Associations of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced that they have selected candidates for the National Customer Service Representative of the Year Award, organized by the...
Coalition Supports Bill to Reform NJ Auto Insurance Regs
Jun 28 2002 // After months of discussion, and a last minute compromise which assured that State Farm will continue in New Jersey’s automobile insurance market for at least the next three years, Legislators have finally introduced...
State Farm Pact “Not Stabilization or Competition” Says PIANJ’s Madara
Jun 27 2002 // Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey President David J. Madara, CPCU, AAI, took issue with certain aspects of the agreement between New Jersey’s Governor, the Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) and...
NJ, State Farm Agree to Delay Withdrawal for 3 Years
Jun 26 2002 // State Farm Indemnity, New Jersey’s largest auto insurer with around 735,000 policyholders, has reached agreement with the governor and the NJ Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) to delay its withdrawal from...
NJ YIP’s Fun Run Raises $80,000 for Special Olympics
Jun 18 2002 // The New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals held its annual Fun Run last week during the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc.’s annual business conference, raising a record high of nearly $80,000 for...
PIA Panel Gives Views on Hard Market
Jun 17 2002 // The combined meeting of the Professional Insurance Agents of New York and New Jersey, recently held in Atlantic City, heard a number of views from a panel of experts on the current state of the insurance market. The...
NJ Hospitals Call for Med Mal Reform
Jun 14 2002 // Perhaps inspired by the success of their colleagues in neighboring Pennsylvania, the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) issued a call for the reform of the state’s medical malpractice insurance system. “The...
NJ Realtors Ass’n. Joins Auto Insurance Coalition
Jun 13 2002 // New Jersey’s Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition (CAIC) announced that the New Jersey Association of REALTORS® (NJAR), has joined the Coalition in its campaign to reform the state’s auto insurance laws to...
Coryn Mastowski Receives NJ Young Insurance Professionals YIP of the Year Award
Jun 13 2002 // The New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals announced that Coryn Mastowski, CIC, CPIA, is this year’s recipient of the “Young Insurance Professional of the Year” award. Mastowski received the honor which...
PIANJ Elects Officers and Directors
Jun 12 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. announced the election of Officers for 2002-2003, and of seven Directors for three year terms. -David J. Madara, CPCU, AAI, of Moorestown was elected president. He is...
NJ DOBI Approves PIANJ’s Insurance ID Card Guide
Jun 6 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance’s (DOBI’s) Office of Enforcement and Consumer Protection has approved The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc.’s (PIANJ’s ) quick...
NJ DOBI Plans Action on Auto Working Group Proposals
Jun 5 2002 // Holly C. Bakke, Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI), announced plans to take immediate action to protect consumers by implementing six reforms raised by the Auto Working Group,...
Coalition Calls on NJ Governor to Act on Auto Insurance Reform
Jun 4 2002 // The Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition (CAIC) has called upon the Administration of Governor McGreevey to “quickly address the likelihood that auto insurance will become more difficult for New Jersey drivers to...
PIA of NY, NJ to Hold Hard Market Panel Discussion at Annual Conference
May 31 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York and New Jersey announced that they will host a panel discussion on the “Hard Market” at their joint annual conference which takes place June 9-11. The panel, which...
Copart Opens Auction Site in Somerville NJ
May 21 2002 // Copart, Inc., the national auto salvage provider, announced that it has opened a second auction facility to serve the state of New Jersey in Somerville next to US-206 in the community of Hillsborough. Copart now has 91...
