Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.J. Senate Passes Agent-Friendly Auto Insurance Changes
Dec 11 2007 // New Jersey insurance agents would no longer be required to offer auto insurance quotes from all of their companies under a bill recently passed by the state’s legislature. The bill, which carries the backing of both...
S&P Details Actions Taken on ‘Public Information’ Ratings
Dec 10 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has announced various rating actions on insurance companies with public information (pi) ratings. S&P explained that “ratings with a ‘pi’ subscript are...
N.J.-Based Dowell Agency Offers Exclusive Program to Watchmakers
Nov 16 2007 // New Jersey based Dowell Insurance Agency Inc., and Integrated Assurance Solutions (Dowell / IAS) announced a new marketing alliance with the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute (AWCI) whereby Dowell / IAS will...
Democrats Retain Control of New Jersey Legislature
Nov 8 2007 // Democrats retained control of the New Jersey Legislature on Tuesday, boosting their Senate majority by one and maintaining their Assembly advantage amid concerns over the state’s highest-in-the-nation property taxes...
Hub Acquires Elevator Insurance Specialist JM Associates in N.J.
Nov 5 2007 // Chicago-based insurance broker Hub International Limited reported that its New York subsidiary has acquired the assets of JM Associates, Ltd. (JM), an agency that has specialized in providing casualty insurance for the...
N.J. court: UM covers drive-by shooting victim
Nov 4 2007 // A woman injured by a bullet from a drive-by shooting is entitled to recover under her uninsured motorist coverage, according to a New Jersey Appellate Division ruling, even though she was not in her car at the time of the...
Garrison to Head Great American Executive Liabilty Office in N.J.
Nov 2 2007 // Great American Insurance Group’s Executive Liability Division has opened a new branch office in Princeton, New Jersey and named David Garrison as divisional vice president. Garrison will be responsible for the...
NJM Insurance Mails Dividend Checks to N.J. Drivers
Oct 31 2007 // New Jersey residents with auto coverage from New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co. will soon be receiving dividend checks worth an average of $327. The Ewing-based company says the checks will be mailed from Nov. 19...
N.J. Court: Underinsured Motorist Policy Covers Drive-by Shooting Victim
Oct 30 2007 // A woman injured by a bullet from a drive-by shooting is entitled to recover under her uninsured motorist coverage, even though she was not in her car at the time of the shooting, according to a New Jersey Appellate...
Former N.J. Assemblyman Pleads Guilty in Insurance Bribe Case
Oct 22 2007 // A former New Jersey Democratic state assemblyman who was among 11 public officials arrested last month on federal bribe-taking charges pleaded guilty last week to attempted extortion. Alfred E. Steele acknowledged...
N.J. Lawmaker Poised to Advance Health Insurance Mandate Plan
Oct 17 2007 // A state senator says he will soon announce plans to require all New Jerseyans to carry medical insurance, but the governor warned that the plan could cost more than $1 billion. “We are going to announce just after...
From the Big Apple to the Corn State
Oct 8 2007 // From the executive office of the Greater New York Mutual Insurance Companies on Madison Avenue in the heart of New York City, Warren Heck, chairman and chief executive officer, can see Illinois. “It’s...
N.J. still tops
Oct 8 2007 // New Jersey drivers still pay more for auto insurance than residents of any other state, but the gap is shrinking. According to a study from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the average Garden State...
8 N.J. still rates at the top
Oct 8 2007 // Competition helps but drivers still pay most 8 Maine cop hit by police car covered Court rules in the case of a stolen police car 8 N.Y. to issue illegal immigrants licenses Supporters see fewer uninsured...
N.J. still tops
Oct 8 2007 // New Jersey drivers still pay more for auto insurance than residents of any other state, but the gap is shrinking. According to a study from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the average Garden State...
Class Action Suit Filed Against N.J. Meat Plant, Markets
Oct 5 2007 // As government scientists searched for the source of a multistate E. coli outbreak linked to frozen hamburgers, a class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against the New Jersey producer of the patties and supermarkets that...
States Sue Bush Over Limits on Children’s Health Insurance
Oct 3 2007 // Several states say they will challenge the Bush administration in federal court over its new rules that block the expansion of a health insurance program for children from low-income families. Arizona, California,...
New Residents in N.J. Must Now Register Vehicles Within 60 Days
Oct 2 2007 // New New Jersey residents now have 60 days to register vehicles with the state under a new law signed by Gov. Jon S. Corzine. State law had allowed new residents to maintain their vehicle registrations with their previous...
First Guard Insurance Adds N.C. and N.J. to License List
Sep 28 2007 // Venice, Fla.-based First Guard Insurance Co., will begin writing business direct in North Carolina and New Jersey effective Jan. 1, 2008. Currently, FGIC is licensed in twenty-three states, primarily concentrated east of...
Gravel Company Seeks Damages Recovery from Military for N.J. Blaze
Sep 25 2007 // Four homes were destroyed and 37 other damaged by a raging forest fire in the Pinelands last May, but a sand and gravel company is seeking more than 98 percent of the damages sought from the military for causing the...
