Latest New Jersey Headlines
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State Farm Indemnity To Exit NJ Auto Market
Jun 13 2001 // State Farm Indemnity, New Jersey’s largest auto insurer, announced plans to withdraw from the market citing a failure to obtain regulatory reforms and consistently poor loss experience over the last three...
Allstate’s Good Hands Put Death Grip on Fraud Perpetrators
May 21 2001 // “You’re in good hands.” Those words have a profoundly different context if you happen to be part of a group of individuals who submit “creative” claims to Allstate. In that case, those good...
ISO Moves To New Jersey
May 14 2001 // In a move that consolidates all of its business units under one roof, Insurance Services Office Inc. has relocated the company’s international headquarters to the Newport World Business Center. The relocation unites...
Fraud Ring Suspected in New Jersey
Apr 5 2001 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. filed a civil suit Wednesday in Morris County Superior Court against 10 defendants alleging violations of the New Jersey Fraud Prevention Act and the New Jersey Civil RICO Statute, in...
Levin Recommended as Exec. Director of Port Authority
Apr 2 2001 // New York Gov. George Pataki and Acting New Jersey Gov. Donald DiFrancesco have recommended New York State Insurance Superintendent Neil Levin to succeed Robert Boyle as executive director of the Port Authority of New York...
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...
