Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Proformance to Acquire Sentry’s N.J. Auto and Homeowners
Oct 21 2003 // New Jersey’s Proformance Insurance Company announced that it has agreed to acquire the New Jersey auto and homeowners insurance business of Sentry Insurance, a Mutual Company of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Proformance...
IIANJ Joins ‘Save Choices for Drivers’ Coalition
Oct 13 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey announced that it has joined the “Save Choices for Drivers” coalition recently begun by several insurance industry groups. The organization aims to protect auto...
PIANJ Optimistic on Auto Reform Bill’s Effects
Oct 13 2003 // Judging from recent reports from the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc., the state’s auto reform bill, passed earlier this year, is beginning to have some welcome and quite positive effects in...
IIANJ Comments on Out of State Trust Accounts; ID Cards; Consumer Notices
Oct 10 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey has issued three separate bulletins addressing the problems of out of state trust accounts, multiple ID card forms and consumer notices on automobile insurance. The IIANJ...
PIANJ Praises NJ DOBI Consumer Materials Initiative
Oct 10 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc., in a letter to Assistant Commissioner Douglas A. Wheeler, praised the state’s Department of Banking and Insurance for taking the initiative to develop and improve...
N.J. Mother, Son Sentenced for Auto Fraud & Official Bribery Scam
Oct 9 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an East Orange mother and son were sentenced for their reported participation in an organized scheme to illegally obtain valid police accident reports in order to...
NJCRIB Notes Complaints on AIG Terrorist Risk Charges
Oct 9 2003 // New Jersey’s Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau has released an advisory bulletin noting that it has “been receiving complaints from agents and insureds that the AIG companies have been applying a...
AAI Reports Concerns with Implementation of Some N.J. Auto Regulations
Oct 6 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers submitted comments to New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance expressing support for the Department’s efforts to move quickly in implementing the auto insurance reform...
Special Coverage: NAPSLO Annual Convention
Oct 6 2003 // The NAPSLO Annual Convention took place Sept. 10-14 in San Diego at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. For more Insurance Journal interviews and special video coverage of the NAPSLO Convention, including an...
Special Coverage: NAPSLO Annual Convention
Oct 6 2003 // The NAPSLO Annual Convention took place Sept. 10-14 in San Diego at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. For more Insurance Journal interviews and special video coverage of the NAPSLO Convention, including an...
Hub International Acquires N.J.’s Sondheim & Laughlin, Mass. Commonwealth Insurance Agency
Oct 2 2003 // Chicago-based Hub International announced two new acquisitions to its growing network of regional brokerages. It has acquired the stock of Sondheim & Laughlin, Inc. of Iselin, New Jersey and the assets of Commonwealth...
PIANJ Supports Proposed N.J. Rate Filing Reforms
Oct 2 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has told Assistant Commissioner Douglas A. Wheeler of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance that it supports the department’s proposal to modernize...
Alliance Praises N.J. Efforts to Fight Insurance Fraud
Oct 1 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers has issued an announcement noting that the State of New Jersey has assumed a leadership role in efforts to fight insurance fraud, following a “change in attitude and increased...
PIANJ Letter Addresses Concerns on Auto Policy Regulations
Sep 25 2003 // Professional Insurance Association of New Jersey president John D’Agostino, Jr., CIC, has addressed a letter to Douglas A. Wheeler, Assistant Commissioner of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for the New Jersey...
NAII Wants Clarification of Proposed N.J. Excess Profit Regulation
Sep 25 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers announced that it has asked the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance to be more specific regarding the methodology contained in a proposed regulation dealing with...
NJ YIP’s Schedule Time Management Seminar
Sep 23 2003 // The New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals will offer members and non-members lessons in learning to take control of an overwhelming work environment during its Viewpoints seminar, entitled “Time Management Skills...
Alliance Praises NJ Auto Reforms, but Warns on AB 3531
Sep 22 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers has issued a bulletin applauding the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance on their efforts “to quickly implement the automobile insurance reforms of SB 63.” Richard...
PIA CT, NH, NJ and NY Join Fall Return to School
Sep 22 2003 // A bulletin from the Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York State Inc. notes that “summer has come and gone. It’s time for calculators and textbooks—for the...
NAPSLO Special Coverage
Sep 19 2003 // Insurance Journal brings you special video coverage of the NAPSLO Annual Convention that took place Sept. 10-14 in San Diego. Insurance Journal spoke with a number of key leaders in the excess & surplus lines...
N.J. Commissioner Reactivates Med Mal Reinsurance Association
Sep 12 2003 // New Jersey’s Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke has issued an order to reactivate the state’s long-disused Medical Malpractice Reinsurance Association (MMRA) in order to “assure continued...
