Latest Auto Headlines
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A-MAX Auto Insurance Names Genest as VP of Sales and Operations
Jul 2 2018 // Dallas-headquartered A-MAX Auto Insurance has appointed Rick Genest as its new vice president of Sales and Operations. Genest, a seasoned insurance executive with over 25 years’ experience in the insurance services...
Rising Homeowners Losses Hurt P/C Insurers: Fitch
Jul 2 2018 // Personal lines underwriting losses rose in 2017 for the fourth year in a row, Fitch Ratings found in a new report. There’s a twist, however. In the three years prior to 2017, personal auto insurance contributed...
Mississippi County Authorities Searching for Car Thieves on ATVs
Jun 29 2018 // Investigators in one north Mississippi County are looking for thieves who have been riding all-terrain vehicles to break into cars at night. WHBQ-TV reports that at least two dozen vehicles in a rural area of southern...
State Farm to Cut Auto Rates in North, South Carolina
Jun 29 2018 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will decrease its auto rates in North and South Carolina, impacting more than 2 million customers in both states. According to a statement from the insurer, State Farm’s...
Fury of Hailstorms Battered Colorado, Insured Losses ‘Skyrocketing’
Jun 28 2018 // The hailstorms that hit Northern Colorado and the Denver-metro just over a week ago carried a $276.4 million insurance price tag. The storms followed a Southern Colorado hailstorm a week earlier that caused an estimated...
Auto Supplier Bosch Teams with Startup Mojio to Connect Vehicles to Digital Services
Jun 28 2018 // German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH is teaming with Canadian startup Mojio to get more vehicles connected wirelessly to a wide range of digital services, from insurance companies to emergency responders, the companies...
Safety Probe of Tesla Crash Cites Battery Fire Risk
Jun 27 2018 // A Tesla Inc. Model S involved in a May 8 fatal high-speed crash in Florida reignited twice after firefighters extinguished a fire in the electric vehicle, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a...
State Farm to Cut Auto Rates in Penn.
Jun 26 2018 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company plans to cut its rates in Pennsylvania. The total state-wide expected impact of this rate change for State Farm Mutual in Pennsylvania is approximately $49.5 million, set to...
Rhode Island General Assembly Passes Auto Body Shop Bill
Jun 26 2018 // The Rhode Island General Assembly has passed H-8013/S-2679, which aims to effectively ban the use of aftermarket parts in the repair of vehicles. The bill is now awaiting Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s...
AXA Belgium Partners with Online Car Repair Platform Fixico
Jun 25 2018 // AXA, the Paris based insurance & asset management firm, and Fixico, a platform for cosmetic car repairs, after several months of joint testing, have just started to provide AXA’s customers in Belgium with an...
Uber Girds for Court Battle to Continue Operating in London
Jun 25 2018 // In a TV ad currently airing in the U.K., a young woman leaves a bar alone and prepares to step into an Uber. “I know his license number and he’s made 3,000 trips and speaks four languages,” she says to...
Motorcyclist Hit by Police SUV in California to Get $12M
Jun 22 2018 // Officials in Oakland, Calif. have agreed to pay $12 million to a motorcyclist who lost a leg and was badly hurt when struck by a police vehicle that allegedly ran a red light. The East Bay Times reported that the proposed...
Police Say Uber Driver Was Streaming Hulu Before Self-Driving Car Crash in Arizona
Jun 22 2018 // Police in Tempe, Arizona said evidence showed the “safety” driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber was distracted and streaming a television show on her phone right up until about the time of a fatal...
Boston Approves NuTonomy Self-Driving Car Testing Citywide
Jun 22 2018 // A self-driving car company is getting the green light to test its vehicles on a Colonial-era street network with a reputation for aggressive human drivers. Boston city officials announced Wednesday that they’ve...
State Farm to Cut Auto Insurance Rates in Missouri
Jun 20 2018 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. plans to lower auto insurance rates rates in Missouri by 3 percent overall. The company said the total statewide savings for all State Farm customers affected by this rate...
Toyota’s $1B Investment in Ride-Hailer Grab Opens Door to Data-Driven Insurance
Jun 20 2018 // By pumping $1 billion into ride-hailing firm Grab, Toyota Motor Corp. stands to gain a passenger-side view of tens of thousands of cars across Southeast Asia, tracking how fast they drive, how far they travel and the time...
How Businesses Can Limit Costs of Work-Related Crashes
Jun 19 2018 // Work-related motor vehicle crashes cost employers $56.7 billion in 2017, according to a report by a Boston-based vehicle management and reimbursement platform that offers ways employers ways to limit the costs of...
Self-Driving Waymo Part of 5-Vehicle Crash in Arizona
Jun 19 2018 // Mesa police say a self-driving vehicle was among five cars involved in a collision, but no serious injuries were reported. The driver of the Waymo vehicle told authorities that the car wasn’t in autonomous mode at...
Safety Agency to Watch Tesla Car Fire Exam Following California Incident
Jun 19 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a technical specialist to observe Tesla Inc.’s examination of a Model S that caught fire in California on Friday, the agency said in a statement. The action is not...
Mississippi Highway Patrol to Pay $500K in Lawsuit Over Fatal Wreck
Jun 19 2018 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol is paying $500,000 in a lawsuit over a fatal wreck that happened when a state trooper was driving fast on a dark highway without his blue lights flashing. The crash happened about 1:30 a.m....
