New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed an executive order directing the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance to take action against insurance policies that encourage firearm use.

The executive order instructed the department's commissioner, within 30 days, to take "all appropriate action within her authority to prohibit and/or limit the sale, procurement, marketing, or distribution of insurance products that may serve to encourage the improper use of firearms."

The department recently announced that Lockton Affinity, LLC, agreed to pay a $1 million fine as part of a consent order with the department for administering a National Rifle Association-sponsored insurance program that the department asserted was in violation of state insurance laws. An investigation by the department found that Kansas-based Lockton Affinity violated various state laws and regulations in administering the Carry Guard insurance program in New Jersey on behalf of the NRA.