Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Orgs. File Brief Urging NJ Supreme Court to Reverse Decision in Split Limits Case
May 2 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers, joined by the American Insurance Association, the National Association of Independent Insurers and the Insurance Council of New Jersey, have filed an amicus curiae brief with the New...
NJ Creates Task Force on Urban Area Insurance
May 1 2003 // New Jersey’s Insurance Commissioner, Holly C. Bakke, has implemented the call by Governor James E. McGreevey to tackle the special problems the state’s urban consumers face when looking for insurance, with an...
A.M. Best Affirms A+ (Superior) Ratings of Selective Insurance
Apr 30 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A+ (Superior) of Branchville, NJ-based Selective Insurance Group. “The rating applies to the group’s five intercompany pool members led by Selective...
NYSID Announces Arrest of Man Who Sold False N.J. Auto Insurance to New Yorkers
Apr 25 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that a joint investigation with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and New York Police Department has resulted in the arrest of Jose...
N.J. Insurance Commissioner Issues Bulletin on Professional Liability Coverage for Reservists Called to Duty
Apr 22 2003 // New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke has issued an official bulletin reminding insurance carriers that doctors and other professionals called to active duty in the Iraq war have the right to suspend their...
NAII Says N.J. Domestic Violence Law Could Encourage Abuses
Apr 18 2003 // A recently enacted New Jersey law prohibiting discrimination by insurers against individuals or applicants based on a history of domestic violence could reportedly inadvertently open the door for fraud and an unfair...
N.J. Woman Pleads to Guilty to Forging Phony Prescriptions
Apr 16 2003 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Hudson County woman pled guilty to forging drug prescriptions as part of a reported scheme to obtain controlled drugs through the use of fraudulent...
Trio of N.J. Residents Charged with Receiving Stolen Cars, Fraud
Apr 14 2003 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that three North Jersey men have been charged via separate Passaic County Grand Jury indictments with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and theft by...
U.S. Congress Hears of N.J. Auto Insurance Crisis
Apr 11 2003 // Federal lawmakers Thursday learned that New Jersey’s auto insurance crisis has impacted more than a quarter million people within the past three years alone, forcing drivers to search for auto insurance in a market...
WebCE’s Self-Study Insurance CE Courses Now Available in New Jersey
Apr 10 2003 // Over 300 Hours of WebCE’s Self-Study Insurance Continuing Education (CE) Courses Have Already Been Approved for N.J. Agents, said a company announcement. The nationwide insurance continuing education provider said...
Coalition, Alliance Hail Senate Passage of NJ Auto Reform Bill, Now Look to Assembly for Action
Mar 21 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers and the Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition both hailed the passage by the full New Jersey Senate, by a vote of 30-4-7, of legislation aimed at reforming what the Alliance called...
AIA Commends NJ Senate on Passage of Auto Insurance Reform Bill
Mar 20 2003 // The American Insurance Association commended the New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee “for its leadership and bipartisan action in passing historic legislation (Senate Committee Substitute/Senate 63) aimed at...
N.J. Senate Commerce Committee Unanimously Passes Auto Reform Bill
Mar 19 2003 // All that lobbying and demonstrating has apparently begun to pay off for New Jersey’s insurance community (See IJ Website Mar.18), as the state’s Senate Commerce Committee unanimously passed an amended version...
Big Day for NJ Auto Reform Supporters
Mar 18 2003 // St. Patrick’s Day in Trenton NJ took on a decidedly political character as supporters of proposals to change the state’s restrictive automobile insurance regulations gathered at the state capital both inside...
Alliance Hails NJ Supreme Court Denial of Appeal in James Case; Reaffirms AICRA Threshold
Mar 17 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers announced its satisfaction in the outcome of a recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court to deny certification in James v. Torres. The bulletin noted that the result “will...
PIANJ Issues Open Letter Urging St. Patrick’s Day Demonstrations for Auto Reform
Mar 13 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has joined with the Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition to urge its members to attend a rally in Trenton next Monday, March 17, and to let legislators know their...
NAII Warns that Proposed NJ Arbitration Bill Would Permit Punitive Damages
Mar 13 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin calling attention to provisions in a pending New Jersey bill dealing with arbitration methods that include a section that would allow arbitrators to...
Coalition Says N.J. Drivers Have Fewer Choices
Feb 27 2003 // New Jersey’s insurance crisis reportedly took yet another turn for the worse Wednesday when the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance allowed New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Group, the state’s...
MIIX Group Reports Q4, Full Year Results
Feb 27 2003 // The New Jersey based MIIX Group, Inc., a provider of medical professional liability insurance services, announced a net operating loss for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2002, of $63.7 million, or $4.77 per share,...
PIANJ Says Auto Market Problems Stem from Availability
Feb 24 2003 // David Madara, president of the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc., told the Assembly Banking and Insurance Committee at the state house in Trenton last week that reforms to New Jersey’s ailing...
