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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...

No Brake Yet for Personal & Commercial Auto

Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...

PCI Urges Rejection of N.J. Privacy Law Proposals

Feb 6 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America urged New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee members to reject proposed legislation regarding the privacy of financial information, indicating that the current proposals...

The van Aartrijk Group Opens New Jersey Office; Wasilewski Named Senior Associate

Feb 4 2004 // The van Aartrijk Group LLC, a marketing communications firm specializing in insurance and financial services, has named Charles Wasilewski senior associate in conjunction with the opening of a New Jersey...

N.J. Man Charged with Stealing Thousands from 9/11 Disaster Programs Notes Additional Scams

Jan 27 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County man previously convicted and sentenced to 10 years in state prison for stealing more than $140,000 in 9/11 survivor benefits has admitted committing...

N.J. Moves to Protect Policyholders; Files to Liquidate Insurer

Jan 26 2004 // New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance filed papers in Superior Court last Thursday to protect policyholders and consumers by seeking a liquidation order that would shut down a reportedly financially...