Latest New Jersey Headlines
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N.J. DOBI Notes Success of Online Auto Insurance Site
Mar 18 2004 // According to New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance, the state’s innovative Auto Insurance Purchasing Planner has been used by more than 6,500 consumers shopping for auto insurance since the program...
PCI Letter Cites N.J. Auto Reforms
Mar 16 2004 // An editorial that appeared in the Newark Star-Ledger on March 4 evoked a positive response from the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. PCI Northeast Regional Manager Richard Stokes, in a letter to the...
N.J. Assembly to Vote on Med-Mal Fund Today
Mar 15 2004 // New Jersey lawmakers in the Assembly are scheduled to vote on medical malpractice, patient safety and rate regulation legislation today, after votes were delayed last week. The medical malpractice funding bill creates a...
New Jersey Task Force Calls For Mandatory Boat Safety Training and Premium Discounts
Mar 12 2004 // A New Jersey legislative task force has recommended that the state mandate safety training for all boat operators. If the state does not do that, it should at least require insurers to provide premium discounts to those...
Minn.’s Top Court Upholds Class Action Certification
Mar 11 2004 // The Minnesota Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court decision in applying the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act on a nationwide basis by virtue of the certification of a nationwide class. “While the Supreme...
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Brown & Brown Acquires Two N.J. Agencies
Mar 8 2004 // Florida-based Brown & Brown, Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of Statfeld Vantage Insurance Group and Waldor Agency, Inc. Both are located in Florham Park, New Jersey. Joint announcements were made by...
IIABNJ Lauds N.J. DOBI Consumer Education Initiative
Mar 8 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) has issued a bulletin applauding the state’s Insurance Commissioner, Holly Bakke and the Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) for the new...
Sales of Variable Annuities Bounced Back in 2003
Mar 4 2004 // New Jersey to Unveil Online Auto Insurance Planner Today New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke will unveil the Auto Insurance Purchasing Planner today. This Internet-based program is designed to help...
New Jersey to Unveil Online Auto Insurance Planner
Mar 4 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke will unveil the Auto Insurance Purchasing Planner today. This Internet-based program is designed to help New Jersey drivers understand the insurance coverage...
Online Insurance Marketing Conference Set for May in Princeton, N.J.
Mar 4 2004 // The publishers of e-Insurance Marketer and digital insurance agency, The Credo Group, announced it would hold its e-Insurance Conference on May 17, 2004 in Princeton, N.J. The conference, which has been created especially...
N.J. Auto Reforms Continue Drive Forward
Mar 3 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke announced this week that the competitive auto insurance marketplace that is emerging in New Jersey reportedly as a result of Governor McGreevey’s reforms is...
New Jersey Broker Acquired By American Wholesale Insurance Group
Mar 2 2004 // American Wholesale Insurance Group, a large independent wholesale insurance broker, has acquired New Jersey-based Property Risk Services, LLC. (PRS), a property wholesale brokerage group. “The addition of PRS...
N.J. Man Faces Additional Charges
Feb 23 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County man, previously sentenced to 10 years in state prison for stealing more than $140,000 in Sept. 11 survivor benefits, has admitted committing...
N.J. Court Decision Offers Incentive for Uninsured Motorists to Obtain Necessary Coverage
Feb 20 2004 // The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously reversed an appellate court decision by upholding a state law that bars the right of an uninsured motorist to sue for noneconomic damages resulting from an injury from...
AIA Commends N.J. Court Decision in Caviglia Case
Feb 20 2004 // The American Insurance Association joined other groups in commending the New Jersey Supreme Court’s decision in Cavigilia v. Royal Tours of America upholding the state’s “no pay/no-play” statutory...
N.J. Department of Banking and Insurance Unveils 2003 Auto Company Performance Info for Residents
Feb 19 2004 // In an ongoing effort to reportedly give New Jersey residents the tools they need to choose the auto insurance policy that is right for them, the Department of Banking and Insurance recently released the first Auto Company...
N.J. Awards No-fault Contract to National Arbitration Forum
Feb 17 2004 // New Jersey has awarded the Minneapolis-based National Arbitration Forum (NAF) a three-year contract, beginning April 16, 2004, to administer arbitrations for No-Fault Insurance Personal Injury Protection (PIP) disputes...
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...
