A Teterboro, N.J., lawyer obtained a $3.9 million medical malpractice settlement for a nurse that includes a $2 million insurance payment.

New Jersey insurance regulators say an insurance company based in the state properly handle life insurance benefits in a case involving a soldier that has sparked several reviews of how insurers pay out benefits to members of the military.

Bollinger, a Short Hills, N.J.-based firm and frequent buyer of insurance agencies, acquired David Szerlip and Associates of Berkeley Heights, N.J.

The owner of an Essex County home health care agency and his wife pleaded guilty Aug. 4 for their roles in a scheme to defraud the Medicaid program out of $800,000.

The chief executive of the now-defunct Northern Financial Group insurance brokerage in Bayonne, N.J., pleaded guilty to misappropriating more than $300,000 in insurance premiums from Lincoln General Insurance Co.

New Jersey opened NJ Protect, a state program to cover about 21,000 uninsured residents with pre-existing medical conditions.

A West Orange, N.J., man, who altered the date of an incident on a police report as part of his filing of a false insurance claim, was sentenced to 30 days in a New Jersey county jail.

A Flemington, N.J., woman was fined $10,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for her use of unauthorized materials during a qualification examination.

The founder of a Red Bank, N.J., a managing general agency has pleaded guilty to one count of insurance fraud in connection with fraudulent statements in an application to operate as a captive insurance company in Washington, D.C., according to federal prosecutors.

A North Jersey neurologist was charged in a state grand jury indictment with conspiring to participate in a pharmaceutical narcotics trafficking and Medicaid fraud scheme.