Latest New Jersey Headlines
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N.J. Maintains Top Auto Insurance Premium Figures Reflect Years of ‘Suffering’ Before 2003 Reforms
Oct 1 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke wasted little time in putting the latest numbers showing the state with the highest average auto insurance premium — $1,113 — in perspective. Those numbers...
N.J. Court Approves Receivership for MIIX Insurance
Oct 1 2004 // MIIX Insurance Co., a subsidiary of The MIIX Group in Lawrenceville, N.J., has been placed into receivership. The Superior Court of New Jersey approved the request from the New Jersey Department of Baking and Insurance,...
N.J. Panel Advances Contractors Insurance Fix
Sep 24 2004 // The New Jersey Assembly Regulated Professions and Independent Authorities Committee this week unanimously released two bills that supporters say will remedy a problem for insurance producers in the issuance of certificates...
PIANJ Golf Classic Sinks Record Amount
Sep 24 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc.’s 21st annual PIANJ Golf Classic continued its tradition of supporting Special Olympics New Jersey by raising a record amount of $47,500. Since 1983, PIANJ, in...
Wyrsch Sworn In as N.J. Big ‘I’ Chairman
Sep 23 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) swore in new officers for the 2004/2005 year at its 111th annual conference in Newport, Rhode Island. Dave L. Wyrsch, Sr., of The Van Dyk Group in Beach...
N.Y., N.J. PORT AUTHORITY JOINS SUIT:
Sep 20 2004 // The government agency that owns the World Trade Center site said it intends to hold Saudi Arabia and nearly 100 other defendants liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and...
N.J. POSTS MARKET CONDUCT REPORTS:
Sep 20 2004 // New Jersey residents wanting to learn more about an insurance company they do business with can now access market conduct information online. Sixteen insurance company examinations are on the New Jersey Department’s...
N.J. Eyes Reducing Urban Auto Rate Subsidies
Sep 17 2004 // New Jersey urban residents may see their car insurance premiums rise under a state proposal that would give insurance companies more freedom to hike rates. The state Department of Banking and Insurance is considering a...
GEICO Expansion Creates Jobs in Buffalo
Sep 14 2004 // Last month, New Jersey state officials announced that GEICO is now selling private passenger automobile insurance in the state through the company’s Web site, geico.com. This was good news not only for New Jersey...
Former N.J. Neurologist Pleads Guilty to Scam
Sep 7 2004 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a former Essex County neurologist has plead guilty to Health Care Claims Fraud as part of a scheme to fraudulently bill an insurance company more...
N.J. Dept. Posts Insurance Company Reviews
Sep 7 2004 // Residents wanting to learn more about an insurance company they do business with can now access market conduct information online. Sixteen insurance company examinations are on the New Jersey Department’s Web site...
N.J. Consumer Advocates Caution on Geico Return
Aug 24 2004 // The re-entrance of Geico into the New Jersey auto insurance market last week may not significantly affect state residents who already have difficulty getting policies, some consumer advocates contend. The state agreed to...
N.J. OFFERS 150 LANGUAGES:
Aug 23 2004 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance has new program designed to tear down language barriers and make it possible for consumers to be heard in more than 150 languages. The department has contracted with...
N.J. Man Pulled Over in Auto Theft Ring
Aug 20 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Hudson County man has been charged by the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor with being the leader of an auto theft...
GEICO Returns to N.J. Auto Market
Aug 16 2004 // New Jersey state officials this morning announced that GEICO has “good news” for state residents. Beginning today GEICO will be selling private passenger automobile insurance in the state. “This is a very...
N.J. Senators Urge Flood Coverage for Basements
Aug 13 2004 // New Jersey’s U.S. senators are maintaining that many residents affected by last month’s flooding in Burlington and Camden counties are being denied monetary relief because of narrowly defined federal flood...
Agent, Senate Pres. Codey Next in Line for New Jersey’s Governorship Following McGreevey Resignation
Aug 12 2004 // The resignation of New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey over his admission of an extramarital affair with another man means that the next in line to the governorship is State Senate President Richard J. Codey, a Democrat from...
N.J. Department Now Heard in 150 Languages
Aug 10 2004 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance has new program designed to tear down language barriers and make it possible for consumers to be heard in more than 150 languages. The department has contracted with...
N.J. Family, N.Y. Man Brake for Fraud
Aug 9 2004 // New Jersey Director of Division of Criminal Justice Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice, Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor, obtained an indictment charging four individuals with conspiracy,...
PIANJ, Special Olympics Prove a Winning Combo
Aug 9 2004 // It may share the plot line of the Warner Brothers’ flick, Pay it Forward, where the characters discover the joy of parlaying one good deed into another, exponentially affecting the world for the better. But art is...
