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Topic: New Jersey Developments

New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Issues Mandatory Business Interruption Insurance Policy Summary

by Alan Levin | Aug 19, 2021 |

On May 12, 2021, New Jersey adopted a law requiring insurers ‎issuing policies covering loss or damage to property, including the loss of use and occupancy ‎and business interruption, to provide their insureds with a one page summary of common ‎insurance clauses in such commercial property policies. The summary, which was developed by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (“DOBI”), was posted on their website on August 16, 2021 and must be provided to all existing policyholders within 90 days of its posting (which is November 13, 2021). The summary is also required to be provided to any potential purchaser, or to any policyholder seeking renewal.

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New Jersey Considering Legislation That Would Authorize Insurers to Provide Policy Riders Covering Global Virus Transmission or Pandemic

by Alan Levin | Jun 3, 2021 | , |

The New Jersey Assembly is currently considering legislation that would authorize property ‎insurers offering coverage for loss of use and occupancy and business interruption to provide ‎their insureds a rider covering global virus transmission or pandemic. The bill provides that the ‎Commissioner of Banking and Insurance must review and approve, on an expedited basis, any ‎such rider offered by an insurer. ‎

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New Jersey Enacts New Law Requiring Business Interruption Insurers to Disclose Coverage Parameters

by Alan Levin | May 20, 2021 | , |

On May 12, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a bill requiring insurers issuing policies covering loss or damage to property, including the loss of use and occupancy and business interruption, to disclose to policyholders whether their policy provides coverage for “global virus transmission or pandemic.”

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New Jersey Passes Legislation Requiring Insurers to Apprise Insureds of Particular Aspects of Their Business Interruption Coverage

by Alan Levin | Apr 5, 2021 | , , , |

Both the New Jersey Assembly and Senate recently passed identical legislation that would ‎require insurers offering commercial coverage for loss or damage to property, including business ‎interruption, to provide insureds with a general summary of common insurance clauses in policies ‎for loss of use and occupancy of a commercial property, along with a disclosure relating to ‎pandemic and virus losses.‎

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LL Surplus Lines Series (Entry 23): Sampling of COVID-19 State and NAIC Insurance Updates Applicable to the Surplus Lines Industry

by Zachary Lerner | May 18, 2020 | , , , , , |

COVID-19 is impacting all facets of the insurance industry, and while the surplus lines market is somewhat inoculated from the impact of various state orders and emergency regulations, many states as well as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) are subjecting surplus lines insurers and brokers to their mandates.  This article provides a sample of various state and NAIC requests and orders in recent weeks with applicability to the surplus lines industry, including but not limited to moratoriums on cancellation/nonrenewal, orders to return premium with respect to insurance policies where COVID-19 has altered the nature of the underlying risk, and various data calls.

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New Jersey Advances a Bill Providing Business Interruption (BI) Coverage Resulting from COVID-19

Mar 17, 2020 | , |

The NJ Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee (“AHS” or ‎‎“Committee”) met on Monday, March 16, 2020 to consider draft bill A3844 that would require ‎Business Interruption (BI) insurers to provide coverage for economic losses due to the COVID-‎‎19 crisis. Coverage for business or business interruption losses would be required despite a ‎‎“virus” exclusion in the current policies.‎

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2018 Statewide Elections: A Mixed Bag for Insurers?

by Geoffrey Etherington | Nov 13, 2018 | , , , , , , , |

All eyes have been focused on the federal mid-term elections and the impact on the U.S. House and Senate. Post-mortems by the pundits have begun. See Locke Lord’s take on the mid-terms. The divided government in Washington, D.C. may well stymie efforts to regulate the insurance industry at the federal level, except in very limited circumstances where bi-partisan accord can be achieved.

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Eliminating education and occupation as auto insurance underwriting factors

Apr 25, 2018 | , |

A bill was recently introduced in the New Jersey Senate that would prohibit the use of education and occupation as rating factors in automobile insurance underwriting. This leads to taking a closer look at the debate over the years and insurance industry’s contention that accurate premium rates require a comprehensive list of risk factors.

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Attention, Health Insurers: Unique Encryption Requirements in NJ

by Theodore Augustinos | Feb 13, 2015 | , , ,

As further analyzed in our QuickStudy, available here, New Jersey has enacted a new law (P.L. 2014, c. 88, codified at N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 56:8-196 – 56:8-198) effective August 1, 2015, requiring health insurance carriers authorized to issue health benefits plans in New Jersey to encrypt personal information that they store electronically.

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NAIC: Edwards Wildman Roundtable with Richard Schlesinger, Chief of Reinsurance and Surplus Lines New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance

by John Emmanuel | Dec 15, 2013 | , , |

Edwards Wildman hosted a roundtable at the 2013 NAIC Fall National Meeting in Washington, DC with Richard Schlesinger, Chief of Reinsurance and Surplus Lines, from the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance for a discussion about the New Jersey Reinsurance Certification Program. 

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