Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report: Calif., Minn., N.J., N.C. Have Worst Traffic; N.D., S.C. Have Best Roads
Jun 29 2007 // Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban Interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual...
New Jersey Drivers Think They’re Better Than New York Drivers
Jun 29 2007 // New Jersey drivers buckle themselves in, but do so while speeding and scorning New Yorkers, according to a new university poll. The poll also found Garden State men are more likely than women to drive after drinking or...
FEMA Gets 16,000 Aid Requests from N.J. for April Storm Damage
Jun 28 2007 // Federal Emergency Management Agency officials received grant applications from nearly 16,000 New Jerseyans whose homes were flooded in April. Monday. June 25, was the deadline to apply. FEMA approved nearly $17 million in...
Passengers Have Duty to Aid Crash Victims, N.J. Court Rules
Jun 28 2007 // Two passengers who witnessed their intoxicated friend crash his car into the back of a motorcycle had an obligation to help the injured man, a New Jersey appellate court has ruled. The driver and his passengers made 44...
N.J. Tire Importer Says It Can’t Afford Recall of Chinese Tires
Jun 27 2007 // U.S. safety officials have ordered a New Jersey tire importer to recall as many as 450,000 tires that it bought from a Chinese manufacturer and sold to U.S. distributors. Foreign Tire Sales Inc., of Union, New Jersey, said...
Insurers Hit Additional N.J. Rules on Personal Information Protection
Jun 21 2007 // New Jersey officials’ interpretation of a new state law meant to thwart identity theft goes further than lawmakers intended and would impose impractical requirement upon insurance companies, according to an industry...
N.J. Judge Orders Merck to Pay $4 Million in Vioxx Case Legal Fees
Jun 20 2007 // Lawyers who helped a heart attack victim win a $13.5 million jury verdict in a Vioxx liability case should be paid about $4 million in legal fees by Merck & Co., a New Jersey judge has ruled. Merck, which made the...
Ratings Recap: Travelers, Mapfre (NJ & FL), AXA Art, Progressive (debt)
Jun 19 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A+” (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of Travelers Insurance Companies and its P/C members. Best also affirmed...
N.J. Could Join States Penalizing Drivers Using Cell Phones
Jun 15 2007 // New Jersey could become the fourth state to allow police to ticket drivers whenever they’re seen using a hand-held cell phone while driving. An Assembly committee on Thursday was slated to consider a Senate-approved...
Personal Lines LEADERS
Jun 4 2007 // About the Personal Lines Leaders: The Personal Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in April. This list utilizes only the...
News Currents
Jun 4 2007 // N.J. agents view insurance companies’ real time capabilities Nearly 150 New Jersey insurance agents recently got a firsthand look at how real time transactions work and save time. The Get Real Time program held last...
Report Claims N.J. Homes at Risk Due to Outdated Flood Maps
May 30 2007 // Outdated maps that don’t take into account years of development are leaving many northern New Jersey residents and builders unaware of actual flooding risks, experts say. Some of the maps of towns along the Ramapo,...
N.J. Gov. Corzine’s ‘I Should Be Dead’ Seat Belt Ad Goes Live
May 25 2007 // “I’m New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, and I should be dead.” So begins Corzine’s public service announcement promoting seat belt use, which was released Thursday. The governor was seriously injured in...
N.J. Begins Seat Belt Crackdown with Gov’s Crash on Minds
May 24 2007 // Milton Garcia angrily waved the $46 ticket he’d received for failing to wear a seat belt. “There are people dealing drugs and killing each other,” the Trenton, N.J. resident said Monday morning from his...
2007 Property/Casualty State Specialist Insurers
May 21 2007 // 1 Brickstreet Mutual Insurance Co. WV 765,963 2 Texas Mutual Insurance Co. TX 743,095 3 Old American Cty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. TX 491,641 4 SAIF Corp. OR 449,794 5 Universal Property & Casualty...
N.J. Charges Health Insurer with Alleged Steering of Small Businesses
May 21 2007 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) has filed an administrative order alleging CIGNA HealthCare of New Jersey and an affiliate, Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., failed to properly notify 2,123...
Bringing competition and choice to Mass. auto
May 21 2007 // The 400 insurers of the American Insurance Association have seen the favorable results for the public as well as insurers when states have worked to increase competition and relax unproductive regulatory restraints. Recent...
Insurers Say N.J. Bill Would Limit Insureds’ Choice
May 11 2007 // The New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee heard testimony that insurers say could make it more difficult for consumers to choose the level and type of insurance they use. The Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Federal Aid Available for N.J. Flood Victims
May 10 2007 // Federal officials have approved nearly $7.6 million in aid to victims of last month’s nor’easter in 12 New Jersey counties. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has registered more than 9,300...
Johnson Joins Wholesaler NAPCO in N.J.
May 10 2007 // Wholesale broker NAPCO has announced that Keith C. Johnson has joined the firm as a placement associate in its Edison, N.J. corporate office. Johnson will work with the NAPCO team to develop new business opportunities and...
