Latest New Jersey Headlines
All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
‘Blind Faith’ Agent on Death Row in N.J. Wins Reprieve
Nov 4 2005 // A federal appeals court threw out a former insurance salesman’s death sentence for arranging his wife’s murder 22 years ago in a case that was the subject of a true-crime book and a TV miniseries. The 3rd U.S....
N.J. Jury Clears Drugmaker Merck In Vioxx Heart Attack Case
Nov 3 2005 // Jurors in New Jersey today said Merck & Co. should not be blamed for the death of a 60-year old Idaho postal worker who suffered a heart attack after taking the company’s Vioxx painkiller. The six men and six...
N.J. Issues First Subsidies to Doctors for Malpractice Premiums
Oct 25 2005 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Acting Commissioner Donald Bryan announced that the first checks to help doctors pay high malpractice insurance premiums are in the mail. The subsidies are being distributed to eligible...
Harleysville Taps Sarnese for Mid-Atlantic Claims Center in N.J.
Oct 19 2005 // Thomas A. Sarnese has been named assistant vice president of Harleysville Insurance’s Mid-Atlantic claims service center. In this new role, he is responsible for directing all activities of the claims center, which...
Merck Faces Surge of New Vioxx Lawsuits at Filing Deadline
Oct 17 2005 // Eight weeks after a Texas jury handed drug maker Merck & Co. a $253 million verdict in its first Vioxx product liability trial, the number of Vioxx lawsuits is rising like floodwater. More than 1,000 new Vioxx cases...
Survey Finds Insurers Appointing N.J. Agents in Record Numbers
Oct 17 2005 // Insurance companies are making new agency appointments in New Jersey in record numbers, reports the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. According to data compiled this summer, at least 10 percent of the...
N.D., S.D., Iowa Drivers Enjoy Lowest Auto Premiums: NAIC Report
Oct 17 2005 // Drivers in most of the 12 states that comprise the Midwest region enjoy lower average auto insurance premiums than their counterparts in other regions of the country, according to the most recent study produced by the...
Survey Finds Insurers Appointing N.J. Agents in Record Numbers
Oct 17 2005 // Insurance companies are making new agency appointments in New Jersey in record numbers, reports the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. According to data compiled this summer, at least 10 percent of the...
N.D., S.D., Iowa Drivers Enjoy Lowest Auto Premiums: NAIC Report
Oct 17 2005 // Drivers in most of the 12 states that comprise the Midwest region enjoy lower average auto insurance premiums than their counterparts in other regions of the country, according to the most recent study produced by the...
N.J. Toughens Identity Theft Protections for Consumers
Oct 13 2005 // New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey has signed into law a package of identity theft safeguards with some of the toughest protections in the nation against such fraud. Consumer advocates have hailed the new law as a model for...
Drenched Northeast Continues to Weather the Storm
Oct 13 2005 // In some parts of the northeast only a few weeks ago, some folks were begging for rain as their lawns turned brown from a hot and humid summer. No more. Once again on Thursday, northeastern states were soaked with heavy...
N.J. Man Charged in Auto Scam
Oct 7 2005 // New Jersey Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has obtained an indictment charging a Passaic County man with conspiracy and...
Insurers Appointing N.J. Agencies in Record Numbers, Reports PIANJ
Oct 6 2005 // Insurance companies are making new agency appointments in New Jersey in record numbers, according to a recent member survey by the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. The association annually updates its data...
A.M. Best Assigns Ratings to Progressive’s N.J. Insurers
Oct 3 2005 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned the financial strength ratings of A+ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings of “aa” to Progressive Garden State Insurance Company, Progressive Freedom Insurance Company and Drive New...
Progressive to Write Autos in N.J.
Sep 29 2005 // Progressive will begin writing auto insurance policies in New Jersey, according to The Associated Press. The Mayfield Village, Ohio-based auto insurer said both Progressive and Progressive Direct, its independent agency...
WellPoint Seeks to Buy WellChoice of N.Y., N.J.
Sep 28 2005 // WellPoint Inc., the country’s largest health insurer, is in talks to buy WellChoice Inc., an insurer with about 5 million customers in New York and New Jersey, according to a published report. The New York Times...
N.J. Court: Jury Should Spread Damage Award Beyond Car Maker
Sep 28 2005 // A New Jersey appeals court in Trenton is giving DaimlerChrysler the chance to reduce the amount of money it must pay the family of a woman who was killed when another vehicle’s tire crushed the roof of a minivan. A...
The Hartford Moving its N.J. Agency Home Business to Proformance
Sep 27 2005 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. on Tuesday announced that its subsidiaries, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Hartford Casualty Insurance Company, and Twin City Fire Insurance Company, have agreed to transfer...
N.J. Supreme Court Pitches New Standard of Care for Ballpark Owners
Sep 23 2005 // Departing from the traditional rule that stadium owners have only a limited duty of care, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a fan who was struck by a foul ball at a baseball game can sue the ballpark owner for...
MADD of N.J. Marks 25 Years with Help from Auto Insurers, Dealers
Sep 23 2005 // Acting New Jersey Governor Richard Codey today officially launched the New Jersey celebration of Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s 25th Anniversary. A $10,000 anniversary gift to MADD was presented by N.J.-based...
