Latest AAA Headlines
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Massachusetts Registry, AAA May Join on License Renewals
Mar 13 2009 // The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles is close to an agreement with AAA that gives the auto club’s 2.3 million members a chance to renew licenses and vehicle registrations at no extra charge — even on...
AAA Texas Unveils Guaranteed Rebuilding Cost Coverage Endorsement
Feb 17 2009 // AAA Texas announced that a new Guaranteed Rebuilding Cost (GRC) optional endorsement is now available for qualifying homeowners from its affiliated carrier, the Auto Club Indemnity Company. The GRC optional endorsement...
AAA Michigan: 2 Million Residents Traveled During Holidays
Jan 11 2009 // An estimated 2 million Michigan residents – almost the same number as last year traveled 50 miles or more from home during the Christmas holiday and New Year’s period, according to AAA’s latest travel...
Arkansas Teen Drivers Have Higher Fatality Rates, AAA Says
Dec 31 2008 // Teenage drivers in Arkansas have a higher rate of traffic fatalities than any other category of drivers in the state, and the AAA wants the state to further restrict driving by young people. The AAA, formerly the American...
AAA Reports: 2 Million Michigan Residents Plan Holiday Travel
Dec 22 2008 // An estimated 2 million Michigan residents — almost the same number as last year — will travel 50 miles or more from home during the upcoming Christmas holiday period, according to AAA’s latest travel...
It Figures
Nov 30 2008 // 1.4 Million According to the Michigan AAA, an estimated 1.4 million Michiganians traveled during the 2008 Thanksgiving holiday period, a 6-percent decrease from last year, says AAA Michigan. AAA forecasted a small decline...
1.4 Million Michigan Residents to Travel During Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 21 2008 // Despite the economy, many will travel by car and air this holiday weekend. An estimated 1.4 million Michiganians said they will travel during the 2008 Thanksgiving holiday period, a 6-percent decrease from last year, says...
AAA Chicago Forecasts Slight Decrease in Labor Day Holiday Travel
Aug 29 2008 // AAA Chicago projects a slight decrease in the number of Americans traveling during the Labor Day holiday weekend. Nearly 34.38 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this Labor Day holiday weekend, down...
AAA To Cut Homeowners Insurance $50 Million in Northern California
Jul 16 2008 // California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau (CSAA-IIB, or AAA of Northern California) customers in Nothern California will see a 10.6 percent rate cut, a total savings of $50 million, including more than...
Michigan Bills Limit Cell Phone Use, Passengers for Teen Drivers
May 30 2008 // A first-ever analysis from AAA finds that crashes involving teen drivers ages 15 to 17 cost American society more than $34 billion annually in medical expenses, lost work, property damage, quality of life loss and other...
S&P Affirms Berkshire Hathaway’s ‘AAA’ Ratings; Outlook Stable
May 7 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘AAA’ counterparty credit, ‘A-1+’ commercial paper, and ‘AAA’ senior unsecured debt ratings on Berkshire Hathaway Inc....
AAA Study Pegs Cost of U.S. Traffic Crashes at $1,051 Per Person
Apr 21 2008 // Traffic crashes cost American motorists more than $160 billion a year while inflicting a staggering per-person toll on small cities such as Little Rock, Ark., Columbia, S.C., and Pensacola, Fla., according to an American...
S&P Rates Berkshire Hathaway Assurance ‘AAA’; Outlook Stable
Apr 14 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘AAA’ financial strength and financial enhancement ratings to Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp. (BHAC). S&P also assigned its...
AAA Study Pegs Cost of U.S. Traffic Crashes at $1,051 Per Person
Mar 24 2008 // Traffic crashes cost American motorists more than $160 billion a year while inflicting a staggering per-person toll on small cities such as Little Rock, Ark., Columbia, S.C., and Pensacola, Fla., according to an American...
Study: Traffic Crashes Cost American Drivers $1,051 per Person
Mar 6 2008 // Traffic crashes cost American motorists more than $160 billion a year while inflicting a staggering per-person toll on small cities such as Little Rock, Ark., Columbia, S.C., and Pensacola, Fla., according to a AAA...
S&P Takes Various Rating Actions on European Monoline Securitizations
Feb 27 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued another bulletin, following yesterday’s rating announcements (See IJ web site –...
S&P Takes Bond Insurer Rating Actions
Feb 26 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced several rating actions on a number of monoline bond insurers “following additional stress tests with respect to their domestic nonprime mortgage...
Buffett Rapidly Grows His New Municipal Insurance Arm
Feb 25 2008 // One of Warren Buffett’s newest businesses — insuring municipal bonds — is expanding rapidly into a troubled field as the company backed 112 issues in just the past two days, according to Moody’s...
N.Y. Regulator to Weigh Split of FGIC’s Bond Insurance Business
Feb 19 2008 // New York regulators are eager to consider splitting Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.’s core bond insurance businesses to protect municipal credit ratings against costly downgrades and stem troubles in the debt...
Declarations
Jan 27 2008 // Politics as Usual “I have always run the Insurance Department with the utmost integrity and ethics, and now it’s been proven.” —Former North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman voices satisfaction...
