Latest Auto Headlines
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Sentry Buys Nonstandard Auto Insurer The General From American Family for $1.7B
Sep 12 2024 // Sentry Insurance said it is buying nonstandard auto insurer The General from American Family Insurance for about $1.7 billion to mark the largest acquisition in the company’s 120-year history. Sentry will pay $1.1...
NHTSA Proposes New Vehicle Requirement to Reduce Pedestrian Deaths
Sep 10 2024 // A U.S. regulator said on Monday it is proposing a requirement that some future vehicles be redesigned to reduce the risks of serious or fatal injuries in crashes involving pedestrians amid a rise in such deaths. The...
Legal System Abuse Hammers Truck Insurance
Sep 9 2024 // The U.S. trucking industry has been shaken to its foundations. A welter of external challenges catalyzed the failure of approximately 88,000 trucking firms in 2023. That is 10 percent of the nation’s trucking...
NHTSA Probes 781,000 Newer Jeep Vehicles Over Fire Reports
Sep 9 2024 // A U.S. auto safety agency said on Monday it is opening an investigation into more than 781,000 newer Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator sport utility vehicles after reports of underhood fires under the hood. The National Highway...
Collision Between Jail Transport Van and Vehicle Injures 19 in Illinois
Sep 6 2024 // ROUND LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Nineteen people have been hurt after a jail transport van collided Wednesday with another vehicle and struck a pole in northeastern Illinois. Sixteen prisoners were in the van that was traveling...
Three Charged With Auto Insurance Fraud in Miami After False Injury Claims
Sep 4 2024 // Florida authorities have charged a Miami-area nurse practitioner and two others with creating false medical reports and attempting to defraud an auto insurance carrier out of more than $47,000. Local news reports said that...
Man Drives Car Through Restaurant Patio in Minneapolis Suburb, Killing 2
Sep 4 2024 // ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A man drove his car through a restaurant patio where a group of medical workers were celebrating in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday, killing two people and injuring at least four, police and...
Insurers Say Honda and Local Dealer Should Pay for Damages Caused by Car Fire
Sep 4 2024 // Three insurers that paid more than $1 million in auto and property damage claims to a New York couple and their homeowners association are attempting to recover the payments from the giant car maker and local...
Auto Shopping Continues
Sep 2 2024 // Auto insurance shopping volume set a new record for the second consecutive quarter of 2024. The number of U.S. consumers shopping for auto insurance was up 7%, compared to Q2 2023, according to TransUnion’s latest...
4 Killed, 10 Injured When Passenger Van Rolls Over in Texas Highway Crash
Aug 30 2024 // ALVORD, Texas (AP) — Four people were killed and 10 were injured when a van rolled multiple times after the driver veered off a Texas highway and then overcorrected Wednesday, authorities said. The crash happened just...
Man Accused of Starting California Wildfire by Throwing Firework out Car Window
Aug 29 2024 // A 26-year-old man has been accused of igniting a destructive California wildfire in early July by throwing a firework from a car window during hot, dry and windy weather. Spencer Grant Anderson, of Oroville, was charged...
Overweight Dump Truck Left Hole in Covered Bridge When It Crashed Into River
Aug 26 2024 // The driver of a dump truck learned the hard way that it’s best not to tempt fate on a covered bridge originally built before the Civil War. The loaded vehicle crashed into the Presumpscot River on Friday afternoon,...
Personal Auto Driving P/C Insurers to 2024 Underwriting Profit
Aug 19 2024 // S&P Global Market Intelligence is forecasting a combined ratio of 99.2 for the U.S. P/C insurance industry overall in 2024, signifying a return to underwriting profitability for the first time since 2021. According to...
Auto Insurance Shopping Elevated As Loss Costs Potentially Moderate
Aug 16 2024 // As industrywide auto insurance loss costs appear to be moderating, consumers continue to shop policies at elevated rates, according to the latest quarterly Insurance Personal Lines and Perspectives report from...
US Auto Insurers’ Strong Performance to Continue Through 2025: Fitch
Aug 15 2024 // More favorable mid-year 2024 results of U.S. personal auto insurers are likely to continue through the end of 2024 and into 2025 due to material price increases and a moderation of claims severity trends...
What Latest Inflation Report Shows Overall and for Auto Insurance, Medical Costs
Aug 14 2024 // The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.2 percent in July, after declining 0.1 percent in June. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 2.9...
Staged Auto Accident Leads to Murder, Conviction in Georgia
Aug 12 2024 // First, he orchestrated a staged auto accident in Georgia. Then he murdered a co-conspirator in 2019 in a disagreement over payment from insurance proceeds related to the faked crash. Today, Norman Uriah Simmonds Jr., 45,...
Trucordia Transportation Unwraps MVR Monitoring for Truck Drivers and Motor Carriers
Aug 12 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Trucordia. Trucordia Transportation Practice Leader, Todd Lykke discusses what MVR monitoring is and how it can make a big difference in the trucking industry. Trucordia...
Colorado Man Sentenced for Role in $268K Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme
Aug 2 2024 // A Colorado man who aided a former insurance claims adjuster in an auto insurance claims scheme was sentenced this week. In 2020, Brassfield, 55, of Aurora, reportedly aided former Travelers Insurance employee Colette...
Black Bear and Cub Destroy Car After Getting Trapped Inside
Jul 29 2024 // Trapped inside a car, the adult black bear and cub thrashed about. The horn was blaring and the radio blasting. Outside the car, a second cub ran around in apparent distress by the Connecticut home. State environmental...
