{"id":5062,"date":"2026-07-22T02:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/new-jersey-high-court-lets-allstate-pursue-fraud-claims-in-court\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:35:13","slug":"new-jersey-high-court-lets-allstate-pursue-fraud-claims-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/new-jersey-high-court-lets-allstate-pursue-fraud-claims-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey high court lets Allstate pursue fraud claims in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p paraeid=\"{8f534a79-628e-4e39-bd65-bc407d3ace19}{132}\" paraid=\"1250092888\">The Appellate Division reversed, and the Supreme Court agreed. The problem was a mismatch of powers. New Jersey&#8217;s Insurance Fraud Prevention Act &#8220;allows for the recovery of compensatory damages, investigative expenses, costs, attorneys&#8217; fees, and, where a pattern of fraud is established, treble damages.&#8221; The state&#8217;s anti-racketeering law lets private parties sue in court for damages and injunctions. PIP arbitrators can do far less. They cannot grant\u00a0equitable\u00a0relief, and the court flagged &#8220;serious questions&#8221; about whether they could even award such damages or fees to an insurer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Appellate Division reversed, and the Supreme Court agreed. The problem was a mismatch of powers. New Jersey&#8217;s Insurance Fraud Prevention Act &#8220;allows for the recovery of compensatory damages, investigative expenses, costs, attorneys&#8217; fees, and, where a pattern of fraud is established, treble damages.&#8221; The state&#8217;s anti-racketeering law lets private parties sue in court for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1361,263,852,234,301,1905,1438,4110],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-allstate","tag-claims","tag-court","tag-fraud","tag-high","tag-jersey","tag-lets","tag-pursue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","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=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}