{"id":4924,"date":"2026-07-01T04:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/world-insurance-associates-acquires-clarke-insurance\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:53:25","slug":"world-insurance-associates-acquires-clarke-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/world-insurance-associates-acquires-clarke-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"World Insurance Associates acquires Clarke Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><strong>A challenging moment for New Jersey&#8217;s personal auto market<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The acquisition adds to World&#8217;s footprint in a state where personal auto insurance, one of Clarke&#8217;s core lines, is going through a turbulent stretch. New Jersey implemented the second and final phase of a legislatively mandated increase to minimum auto liability limits on January 1, 2026, raising the bodily injury floor to $35,000 per person and $70,000 per accident, up from $25,000 and $50,000 under the first phase enacted in 2023. Insurers were required to update rate filings and notify policyholders of the higher limits at renewal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A challenging moment for New Jersey&#8217;s personal auto market The acquisition adds to World&#8217;s footprint in a state where personal auto insurance, one of Clarke&#8217;s core lines, is going through a turbulent stretch. New Jersey implemented the second and final phase of a legislatively mandated increase to minimum auto liability limits on January 1, 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3802,3801,3929,11,865],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-acquires","tag-associates","tag-clarke","tag-insurance","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}