Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Commercial Auto-The LONG Road Back to Profitability
Feb 19 2001 // The signs were there in 2000—and now it can safely be said that prices in the commercial auto industry are definitely firming. But how long it will take the industry to truly return to profitability is still hard to...
Commercial Auto: The Long Road Back to Profitability
Feb 12 2001 // The signs were there in 2000—and now it can safely be said that prices in the commercial auto industry are definitely firming. But how long it will take the industry to truly return to profitability is still hard to...
NJ Commissioner Unveils Auto Territory Draft Standards
Feb 7 2001 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Karen L. Suter shared the proposed draft standards with the Territorial Rating Plan Advisory Commission. The 50-year-old rating map used by automobile insurers will be redrawn...
N.J. Agent Admits Insurance Scam
Jan 16 2001 // A New Jersey man was ordered to pay back the more than $65,000 he admitted to stealing from the local township’s fire district. Joseph Greenfield, 63, was sentenced Friday by Ocean County Superior Court Judge Edward...
New Jersey Workers’ Comp Rates to Decline 2.3 Percent in 2001
Dec 8 2000 // Workers’ comp premiums will be reduced by an overall 2.3 percent next year, New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Karen L. Suter announced yesterday. At the same time, weekly benefits to injured workers for...
New Jersey Insurer Issues Dividends to Auto Policy Holders
Dec 7 2000 // New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance is mailing special dividend checks to auto policy holders in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York totaling about $54.6 million. The 324,984 policy holders affected will receive an...
Allstate New Jersey Suit Alleges Medical Providers Set up Sham Cos.
Nov 16 2000 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. filed suit in Morris County Superior Court against 39 defendants alleging violations of the New Jersey Fraud Prevention Act, the New Jersey RICO statute, and several sections of the New...
Liberty Mutual Suit Accuses New Jersey Chiropractor of Intricate Fraud Scheme
Nov 16 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. served summons and complaints this week against Scott Greenberg, D.C., a New Jersey chiropractor whom the company claims defrauded personal injury protection benefits through an intricate...
Liberty Mutual Files Suit Against Psychological Group
Nov 2 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. has served summons and complaints against New Jersey’s Spring Lake Psychological Group, and its owners Warren L. Goldberg and Carmela Gutierrez, for allegedly engaging in a fraudulent...
New Jersey Banking, Insurance Commissioner Asks Court to Dismiss Lawsuit
Aug 23 2000 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Karen L. Suter authorized the filing of court papers today seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the $50 million assessment on the state’s HMOs to pay for a portion of...
Allstate Files Suit Against New Jersey Fraud Ring
Aug 16 2000 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company filed its second lawsuit Tuesday in the ongoing investigation of a major staged automobile accident insurance fraud ring in Camden County, New Jersey. One hundred seventy-five...
The Hartford Provides Market for Hard-to-Place New Jersey Business
Aug 9 2000 // The Hartford Financial Services Group is accepting applications from members of the Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey over the web for tough-to-place business. The applications are part of the Independent...
New Jersey Regulators Approve Sale of Savings Bank Life Insurance
Aug 8 2000 // New Jersey regulators have approved the sale of Massachusetts-style savings bank life insurance—a plain term and whole-life coverage not sold by agents. For decades it was available by law only to residents of...
New Jersey Homeowners’ Price Comparison Survey Available
Jul 31 2000 // The New Jersey Banking and Insurance Department has introduced a 2000 Homeowner’s Insurance Premium Comparison Survey designed to help consumers compare rates for homeowner, renter and condominium insurance. The...
New Jersey Legislature Recesses for Summer; Insurance Issues Await Fall Action
Jul 10 2000 // The New Jersey legislature recessed for the summer without voting on major legislation that would allow new lawsuits. The New Jersey trial bar is supporting the bill, which would create a situation similar to that...
Karen Suter Sworn In as N.J. Banking and Insurance Commissioner
Jul 7 2000 // Karen L. Suter has been sworn in as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. Suter, of Medford, served as Acting Commissioner of the department since January. She succeeds Jaynee LaVecchia, who...
N.J. Department of Banking and Insurance Now NJDOBI.org
May 25 2000 // It may look like Swahili, but the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance’s web site name change is simple compared to the old one. The department’s previous address,...
Summit Bancorp Forms New Jersey’s Largest Brokerage
May 17 2000 // Summit Bancorp has formed Summit Insurance Advisors, a consolidation of several long-established New Jersey-based insurance brokerage and consulting organizations—Meeker Sharkey Financial Group, W.M. Ross & Co.,...
Former New Jersey Commissioner Dies
Apr 21 2000 // Former New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Andrew J. Karpinski died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 59. After a 30-year career in insurance, Karpinski was nominated in 1994 to serve as commissioner. He resigned in 1995...
Allstate N.J. Appoints 1st Exclusive Agent In 25 Years
Feb 3 2000 // Citing dramatic changes in the New Jersey auto insurance marketplace due to implementation of auto insurance reform, Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company (ANJ) today announced the appointment of Patricia Egberts, the...
