Latest AAA Headlines
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AAA Says Many Children Still Not in Safety Seats
Jan 22 2008 // A new AAA survey finds strong support for child safety seat laws, but the agency says more needs to be done to protect children. AAA Mid-Atlantic says about one hundred children under the age of five still die nationwide...
AAA Calls Child Safety Laws Inadequate
Jan 18 2008 // Thirty years after the enactment of the nation’s first child safety seat law, a new survey shows parents strongly support child safety seats and child seat laws. Yet nearly 100 children under age five die every year...
Ratings Roundup: Ambac, Ballantyne Re, Paris Re, Cincinnati Specialty, American Strategic
Dec 27 2007 // Fitch Ratings has placed the following ratings of Ambac Financial Group, Inc. and Ambac Assurance Corp. (Ambac) on Rating Watch Negative: Ambac Financial Group, Inc.- Long-term rating ‘AA’; – $400 million...
AAA: Record Nevadans to Travel over Holiday
Dec 21 2007 // AAA estimates a record number of Nevadans will travel over the upcoming holidays, despite higher gas prices and travel expenses. More than 612,000 Nevadans plan to travel 50 miles or more from their homes over Christmas...
S&P Announces Rating Actions on Bond Insurers; Teleconference Today
Dec 20 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has announced various ratings actions (see list below) on six financial guaranty insurance companies. “The rating actions were prompted by worsening expectations for the...
Calif. Approves AAA’s 6.5% Auto Rate Reduction
Nov 4 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner along with officials from California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau (CSAA-IIB, or AAA of Northern California) in Sacramento and San Francisco announced...
AAA Offers Free Winter Auto Care Inspections to Mich. Motorists
Sep 27 2007 // AAA Michigian has announced it is offering a free winter car care maintenance inspection at participating AAA Approved Auto Repair (AAR) facilities statewide. The inspections, which will run through the month of October,...
AAA Michigan Partners with Auto Theft Group
Jul 23 2007 // AAA Michigan announced today they have partnered with H.E.A.T (Help Eliminate Auto Thefts) to provide specially trained operators to answer the auto theft tip line, 1-800-242-HEAT, 24 hours a day, seven days a...
Teen drivers talk, text too much while on the road
Jul 23 2007 // An alarming number of teen drivers are engaging in risky behavior, including sending and reading text messages, and talking on their cell phones while driving, according to research by AAA and Seventeen magazine. The...
Mich. AAA Names Board of Directors Chair, Vice Chair
Feb 7 2007 // Stephen E. Ewing, retired vice-chair of DTE Energy, was elected for a one-year term as chair of the board of directors of the more than 1.6-million-member Automobile Club of Michigan (AAA Michigan) during a board meeting...
Commerce to Continue 5% AAA Mass. Auto Discount
Jan 15 2007 // The Commerce Insurance Co. has filed with the Massachusetts Division of Insurance to continue its five percent auto insurance rate discount for Amercian Automobile Association members in Massachusetts. If approved by the...
AAA holiday concerns: speeding triples odds of crashing
Dec 25 2006 // Lower fuel prices, mild weather spur more trips to holiday favorite spots. Anxious to arrive quickly at your destination this holiday season? Well, what about safely? Driving faster than surrounding traffic, driving while...
News Currents
Dec 24 2006 // AAA holiday concerns: speeding triples odds of crashing Lower fuel prices, mild weather spur more trips to holiday favorite spots. Anxious to arrive quickly at your destination this holiday season? Well, what about safely?...
Business Moves
Dec 24 2006 // National Atlantic, Commerce Group National Atlantic Holdings Corp. confirmed that preliminary discussions with The Commerce Group Inc. of Webster, Mass., regarding a potential business combination or other strategic...
Commerce, AAA in Mass. Extend Sales Partnership with 20-Year Pact
Dec 14 2006 // The Commerce Insurance Co. has entered into a long-term marketing agreement with AAA Southern New England that extends the two organizations’ business partnership in selling to auto insurance in Massachusetts to a...
Mich. AAA: Speeding Triples Odds of Crashing
Dec 13 2006 // Anxious to arrive quickly at your destination this holiday season? Well, what about safely? Driving faster than surrounding traffic, driving while drowsy, not paying attention and aggressive driving are associated with...
AAA Chicago Projects Busy Thanksgiving Travel Weekend
Nov 22 2006 // Higher prices for hotel rooms, rental cars and airfares will not keep families home this Thanksgiving. AAA Chicago estimates 38.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday, a 2.7 percent...
Calif. AAA’s Pentis Joins Commerce Group to Run Operations Outside Mass.
Nov 7 2006 // The Commerce Group, Inc. in Massachusetts announced that Lawrence R. Pentis of California will join the company’s senior executive team. He will be responsible for insurance operations outside of Massachusetts as the...
After school hours dangerous for teens who drive, says AAA analysis
Nov 6 2006 // Many parents rightfully worry about their kids being on the road on Friday and Saturday nights, but a new AAA analysis of crash data shows another time of the week — the after school hours — rivals weekend...
After school hours dangerous for teens who drive, says AAA analysis
Nov 5 2006 // Many parents rightfully worry about their kids being on the road on Friday and Saturday nights, but a new AAA analysis of crash data shows another time of the week – the after school hours – rivals weekend...
