New Jersey
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed reforms to the non-admitted insurance, or surplus lines, and reinsurance market, a move praised by two national agents’ groups.
Selective Insurance Company of America, a subsidiary of Branchville, N.J.-based Selective Insurance Group, recently made several officer appointments, including four in New Jersey.
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey will hold its 116th annual business meeting and networking event Oct. 4-6 in Hamburg, N.J.
High Point Auto Insurance can’t guarantee a Super Bowl, but it can offer New York Jets’ fans a discount on their personal auto insurance rates.
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey is partnering this fall with Mercer County Community College to offer an Insurance and Financial Services AAS degree that it hopes will create more agents.
Glen Rock, N.J.-based insurer MSO has expanded its commercial auto program to Indiana, where it already offers businessowners (BOP), commercial inland marine, and commercial and personal umbrella coverage in the state.
New Jersey life settlement firm to pay $7 million for Ponzi scheme
A New Jersey man and three of his businesses named as defendants in a lawsuit by the state attorney general’s office over an alleged Ponzi scheme will pay $7 million in restitution and another $220,000 in civil penalties.
New Jersey officials will use $16 million in federal funds to provide free H1Ni swine flu vaccinations for 1.3 million uninsured residents.
A New Jersey Superior Court judge has ruled that Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. does not have to provide one of its homeowner’s policyholders with defense in a wrongful death lawsuit.
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Two insurance agents in New Jersey were fined $5,000 each for improperly filing an annuity application with Great Southern Life Insurance Co.
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