Since joining Pringle Quinn Anzano, P.C., as Of Counsel in early 1996, Mr. Haulenbeek has chaired the Firm’s Commercial Transactions and Real Estate Practice Groups.

John was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2006 as one of New Jersey’s seven Bar Examiners.

John brings to his new management role his experience as General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of Jersey Mike’s Franchise Systems, Inc.,  during the period it grew from 35 units to over 320 units in 25 states.   John was responsible for the creation and implementation of system-wide processes that established the company as a multi-state restaurant system.  He worked to create a corporate structure that addressed the business development, regulatory, training, procurement, operational and financial needs of both the parent company and its franchisees.  He reported in that position to the Company’s President, and was responsible for the day to day operation of the Company as well as the strategic management of the system’s growth.

Prior to joining Jersey Mike’s Mr. Haulenbeek was associated for nine years with the law firm of Klatsky & Klatsky, Red Bank, New Jersey, where his practice concentrated on general corporate matters, commercial transactions and commercial litigation in both the law and chancery divisions for the Firm’s corporate and financial clients. He was responsible for the Firm’s representation of First Fidelity Bank, Midlantic National Bank and The Howard Savings Bank, which he represented in connection with transactional activities such as asset based lending, real estate based lending and government backed lending transactions. In addition, he was responsible for the foreclosure and other asset recovery litigation required by these financial clients of the Firm.

John is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received his law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law.  He clerked for Superior Court Judges Benjamin R. Nicosia and Laurence A. Stammelman, and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1983.

The Medical Advisory Forum will focus on developments in medical investigations during the past year, as well as discussions of effective strategies for medical investigations in the upcoming year.   Panel members include Dr. Rick Wakefield, IHC; Dr. Larry Spitz, Pattern Analysis Inc.; and Dr. Randy Braddom, Pattern Analysis Inc.

The Society of Investigators of Greater Newark was formed 1966 by a group of law enforcement and corporate security representatives from the Newark NJ area, and has since grown far beyond te Essex County area. Membership today is more than 325 strong, and includes local, county, state and federal law enforcement representatives from Bergen County to Monmouth County.  Agencies represented include the Division of Criminal Justice, Enforcement Bureau, Gaming and Wildlife, Gambling Commission, State Police, Office of Inspector General, Motor Vehicle Commission and Office of the Public Defender. On a Federal level, our membership consists of FBI, Secret Service, DHS, Postal Inspectors and ICE. In the corporate sector, SIGN’s members include investigators and attorneys from the auto insurance, health insurance, banking, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and trucking industries.

The other speakers at the event were Supervisory Special Agent Sean Keyes of the NK Squad C-12 (Health Care and Mortgage Fraud Squads) of the FBI’s Newark Field Office; Ron Chillemi, the Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor;  and Assistant Attorney General John Kennedy.

Founded in 1997 and partially funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the NJHCQI brings together all key stakeholders to make real and measureable improvements to our state’s health care system.  Its purpose is to “undertake projects that will ensure that quality, accountability and cost containment are closely linked to the delivery of health care services in New Jersey.”  These links are made by publishing the results of objective research, comparative data on providers and other pertinent educational information.   This allows purchasers and consumers to adopt value-based purchasing practices and make highly informed decisions, based on the merits of the various health care programs, treatments and services.

The awards luncheon followed the 7th Annual Future of the Ocean Symposium, at which Jean-Michel Cousteau gave the keynote:   The Sustainable Future: Preserve the Ocean, Protect Ourselves, which included clips from a soon-to-be-released documentary honoring the 100th Anniversary of the birth of his father, Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Pringle served as the mayor of the Borough of Belmar from 1990 to 2010. During his tenure, Belmar established a natural beach area, which serves as a least tern nesting area, and worked with the local diving community to institute an annual underwater cleanup of the Shark River. In addition, Belmar was the first community in the state to label its storm drains with their destination body of water. Pringle led the effort to have Belmar’s Shark River receive the first in the state of New Jersey designation as a “Federal No Discharge Zone.”

In 2001, Belmar became the first municipality in the nation to restrict smoking on its beaches, an idea that was soon adopted by a series of California beach communities. Pringle was an advocate for federal beach nourishment funding and in 1997, Belmar was part of the largest beach nourishment project in U.S. history. In 1998, Pringle was invited ot testify before the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the United States Senate in support of the Water Resources Development Act of 1998, which contained important elements regarding federal funding for shore protection. He has received many awards and honors, including the Elected Leadership Award from the Jersey Shore Partnership in 2009.

Pringle has served as a member of the Urban Coast Institute Advisory Committee, since its inception in 2005.   The mission of the UCI is to serve the public interest as a forum for research, education, and collaboration that fosters the application of the best available science and policy to support healthy and productive coastal ecosystems and a sustainable and economically vibrant future for coastal communities.

The presentation outlined PIP fraud schemes that begin with the solicitation and recruitment of claimants immediately following an auto accident, and that rely upon kickbacks and other unlawful inducements to encourage the claimants’ referral from healthcare provider to healthcare provider, all the way to and including surgical and invasive pain management procedures in an Ambulatory Surgical Center or hospital setting.   Pringle coined the “Conveyor Belt” term to describe  the pattern of progression of treatment and procedures that PIP claimants undergo when they are recruited into a Conveyor Belt scheme.

The presentation was attended by approximately 100 people, including representatives of the NJ Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor, the NJ Department of Banking and Insurance, Bureau of Fraud Deterrence, county prosecutors and insurance company executives.

When the Mayor and Council did not withdraw their plan following the objections of dozens of residents at the scoping hearing and in written comments, O’Hara filed a motion on behalf of the citizens group to intervene in a pending prerogative writ action previously filed by the Borough of Spring Lake, whose Marucci Park adjoins the proposed location of the mammoth tower.   Both complaints challenge the zoning on multiple grounds, including that the Borough failed to provide proper notice as required by the Municipal Land Use Law, and that the ordinance constitutes improper spot zoning and financial zoning.

PQA attorneys had filed a motion with the Supreme Court on behalf of the Insurance Council of New Jersey (“ICNJ”) and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (“PCI”) seeking leave to appear jointly as amicus curiae and submitted a brief on behalf of the insurance industry urging the Court to grant the petition for certification.  ICNJ is a nonprofit, insurance, research, information and advocacy organization representing twenty-two New Jersey licensed property casualty insurance companies that collectively write 93 percent of the automobile insurance policies in New Jersey. ICNJ member companies underwrote the great majority of the nearly $17 billion in direct premiums written in New Jersey in 2009. PCI is a trade group representing more than 1,000 property casualty insurance companies domiciled and transacting business throughout the United States.  Its member companies write nearly 49.5 percent of the nation’s auto insurance business.

PQA’s brief on behalf of ICNJ and PCI outlined the ways in which New Jersey automobile insurers’ long-standing ability to investigate personal injury protection (“PIP”) fraud schemes, including unlawful self-referral schemes, kickback arrangements, fee-splitting schemes, and unlawful practice structure schemes, would be crippled if the Appellate Division decision were allowed to stand.  In urging the Supreme Court to hear the appeal, PQA’s brief further explained why the unfortunate but inevitable effects of allowing the Appellate Division decision to stand would be an increase in insurance fraud and abuse, and rising premium costs that will be borne by New Jersey private passenger automobile policy holders .

ICNJ and PCI’s application and brief in support of the petition for certification was prepared and submitted by PQA attorneys Kenneth E. Pringle and Denise O’Hara of PQA’s Belmar office, and Lisa R. Levine, of PQA’s Trenton office.