Latest New Jersey Headlines
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Coalition Supports Bill to Reform NJ Auto Insurance Regs
Jun 28 2002 // After months of discussion, and a last minute compromise which assured that State Farm will continue in New Jersey’s automobile insurance market for at least the next three years, Legislators have finally introduced...
State Farm Pact “Not Stabilization or Competition” Says PIANJ’s Madara
Jun 27 2002 // Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey President David J. Madara, CPCU, AAI, took issue with certain aspects of the agreement between New Jersey’s Governor, the Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) and...
NJ, State Farm Agree to Delay Withdrawal for 3 Years
Jun 26 2002 // State Farm Indemnity, New Jersey’s largest auto insurer with around 735,000 policyholders, has reached agreement with the governor and the NJ Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) to delay its withdrawal from...
NJ YIP’s Fun Run Raises $80,000 for Special Olympics
Jun 18 2002 // The New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals held its annual Fun Run last week during the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc.’s annual business conference, raising a record high of nearly $80,000 for...
PIA Panel Gives Views on Hard Market
Jun 17 2002 // The combined meeting of the Professional Insurance Agents of New York and New Jersey, recently held in Atlantic City, heard a number of views from a panel of experts on the current state of the insurance market. The...
NJ Hospitals Call for Med Mal Reform
Jun 14 2002 // Perhaps inspired by the success of their colleagues in neighboring Pennsylvania, the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) issued a call for the reform of the state’s medical malpractice insurance system. “The...
NJ Realtors Ass’n. Joins Auto Insurance Coalition
Jun 13 2002 // New Jersey’s Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition (CAIC) announced that the New Jersey Association of REALTORS® (NJAR), has joined the Coalition in its campaign to reform the state’s auto insurance laws to...
Coryn Mastowski Receives NJ Young Insurance Professionals YIP of the Year Award
Jun 13 2002 // The New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals announced that Coryn Mastowski, CIC, CPIA, is this year’s recipient of the “Young Insurance Professional of the Year” award. Mastowski received the honor which...
PIANJ Elects Officers and Directors
Jun 12 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. announced the election of Officers for 2002-2003, and of seven Directors for three year terms. -David J. Madara, CPCU, AAI, of Moorestown was elected president. He is...
NJ DOBI Approves PIANJ’s Insurance ID Card Guide
Jun 6 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance’s (DOBI’s) Office of Enforcement and Consumer Protection has approved The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc.’s (PIANJ’s ) quick...
NJ DOBI Plans Action on Auto Working Group Proposals
Jun 5 2002 // Holly C. Bakke, Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI), announced plans to take immediate action to protect consumers by implementing six reforms raised by the Auto Working Group,...
Coalition Calls on NJ Governor to Act on Auto Insurance Reform
Jun 4 2002 // The Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition (CAIC) has called upon the Administration of Governor McGreevey to “quickly address the likelihood that auto insurance will become more difficult for New Jersey drivers to...
PIA of NY, NJ to Hold Hard Market Panel Discussion at Annual Conference
May 31 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York and New Jersey announced that they will host a panel discussion on the “Hard Market” at their joint annual conference which takes place June 9-11. The panel, which...
Copart Opens Auction Site in Somerville NJ
May 21 2002 // Copart, Inc., the national auto salvage provider, announced that it has opened a second auction facility to serve the state of New Jersey in Somerville next to US-206 in the community of Hillsborough. Copart now has 91...
NJ DOBI Approves Name MIIX Advantage
May 21 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) has approved the use of the company name “MIIX Advantage Insurance Company of New Jersey,” according to a company announcement. MIIX is in the process...
NJ Auto Insurance Coalition Steps Up Reform Campaign
May 15 2002 // The Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition (CAIC) announced the launch of an additional wave of advertising as part of its continuing statewide media campaign aimed at reforming New Jersey’s auto insurance system...
PIANJ Gives Support to Bank Parity Proposal
May 14 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey issued a statement supporting the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance for its proposed regulation implementing the Parity Act, which amended the powers of state...
MIIX Reorganization Endorsed by InterMedix
May 14 2002 // Even as it winds down its 25 year life as one of New Jersey’s leading medical malpractice insurers (See IJ Website May 10 and 7), the Lawrenceville based MIIX Group is receiving new support for the resurrected,...
MIIX Board Names Patricia Costante as Chairman
May 10 2002 // Patricia A. Costante, the President and CEO of New Jersey-base MIIX Group, the troubled medical professional liability insurer, got a well deserved vote of confidence on Thursday when the company’s Board of Directors...
PIANJ Joins Coalition for Auto Insurance Reform
May 9 2002 // The Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition announced that the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey (PIANJ) has joined the Coalition in the effort to bring much needed reform to the state’s auto insurance...
