Latest New Jersey Headlines
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N.J. Audit Finds State Health Plan Cheaper for Towns
Mar 1 2012 // More than a third of New Jersey counties and towns are wasting millions of dollars on health insurance brokers and premiums when switching to the state’s plan would be cheaper, a new audit has found. The report from...
N.J.-based Prudential Group Insurance Names Chief Information Officer
Feb 28 2012 // Prudential Group Insurance, a unit of Prudential Financial in Newark, N.J., appointed Joseph Hayes vice president, information systems and chief information officer. He will be responsible for group insurance technology...
N.J. Prosecutors: Adjuster Defrauded Insurance Firms
Feb 16 2012 // State prosecutors say a licensed public adjuster in northern New Jersey defrauded clients and insurance companies out of more than $36,000 by billing for repairs that were never done. Sheena Clarke of Englewood faces...
N.J. Regulators Amend PIP Reform Proposals
Feb 6 2012 // New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance has amended some 25 percent of its personal injury protection (PIP) rule proposals, after reviewing and incorporating recommendations from a mountain of public comment...
Six Northeastern States Saw Average Auto Premium Rates Fall, NAIC Says
Feb 6 2012 // Six Northeastern states saw their annual average auto premium fall, according to the latest data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. They are: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,...
Diederich Healthcare Expands Med Mal Coverage to New Jersey
Feb 2 2012 // Diederich Healthcare has expanded its coverage area to include physicians practicing in New Jersey. The expansion offers additional coverage options to physicians in the state through Positive Physicians Insurance Exchange...
New Jersey’s New AG Changes Consumer Affairs Enforcement
Jan 31 2012 // New Jersey’s new attorney general is reorganizing the enforcement arm of the state’s Division of Consumer Affairs to crack down on crimes involving prescription drugs. Attorney General Jeffery Chiesa announced...
New Jersey Residents Say Flood Buyout Programs Fall Short
Jan 30 2012 // State and federal programs offer homeowners in North Jersey’s flood-ravaged areas a buyout. But the combination of red tape and limited funding is keeping many from that promise and a fresh start in a new and drier...
N.J. Commissioner Considine to Leave Post, Will Be COO of MagnaCare
Jan 30 2012 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced this morning that Banking and Insurance Department Commissioner Tom Considine will leave his post on Feb. 10.Tom ConsidineConsidine, who became the Garden State’s top...
N.J., N.Y. Have Worst Tax Climates for Business, Report Says
Jan 26 2012 // New Jersey and New York have the worst tax climates in the nation for business, according to a new report by the Tax Foundation,a Washington, D.C.-based research firm. Two other Northeastern states, Vermont and Rhode...
N.J. Amends 25% of PIP Reform Proposals, Reflecting Public Comments
Jan 25 2012 // New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance has amended some 25 percent of its personal injury protection (PIP) rule proposals, after reviewing and incorporating recommendations from a mountain of public comment...
N.J. to Use Face-Recognition Technology, Scan License Photos for Fraud
Jan 24 2012 // New Jersey is preparing to use facial-recognition technology to scan 18 million photographs for signs of driver’s license fraud. Photos that are flagged as suspicious will be reviewed before that person can renew...
New Jersey High Court Clears County in Bicyclist’s Death
Jan 23 2012 // New Jersey’s Supreme Court says Essex County cannot be held liable for the 2001 death of a bicyclist who suffered a massive head injury while riding on the shoulder of a county-owned road. Mathi Kahn-Polzo and four...
Virginia, New Jersey Get High Marks in Building Code Report
Jan 23 2012 // The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, an industry group, issued a new report this month that analyzes residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico and the...
N.J. Court Rules for Allstate in Agency Lawsuits
Jan 23 2012 // Allstate said the Superior Court of New Jersey has entered judgment in favor of Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company, a unit of Allstate Insurance Company, and dismissed claims in the franchise lawsuits filed against...
New Jersey’s Insurance Regulator Considine to Step Down: Report
Jan 22 2012 // Tom Considine, commissioner of New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, is planning to step down in February, according to a local report, citing sources familiar with the matter. The Star-Ledger reported on Sunday,...
Teen Driver Bill Fails to Get New Jersey Governor’s Support
Jan 21 2012 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie refused to sign into law a bill that aimed to make younger drivers safer. The bill would have changed the state’s graduated driver’s license program to require novice drivers to...
N.J. Siblings Indicted for Auto Insurance Claims Fraud
Jan 19 2012 // Authorities in New Jersey announced last week that a Union City woman and her Jersey City brother were indicted for their alleged roles in a scheme to submit false auto insurance claims. According to Acting Insurance Fraud...
$100M Gender Bias Suit Filed Against Quest Diagnostics in New Jersey
Jan 17 2012 // Female sales representatives for Quest Diagnostics are accusing the diagnostic testing company of gender discrimination in a $100 million federal lawsuit. The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday in Newark, N.J., by two...
N.J.-based Exceptional Risk Advisors Appoints Head of Sports Division
Jan 11 2012 // Exceptional Risk Advisors, a Lloyds’ of London managing general underwriter in Mahwah, N.J., appointed Chris Lack to head up its sports and entertainment division. Chris Lack Lack will lead Exceptional Risk...
