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California Attorney General Warns Uber over Self-Driving Cars
Dec 19 2016 // California Attorney General Kamala Harris has told Uber Technologies Inc. to pull its self-driving cars from San Francisco’s streets or it will seek a court order forcing it do so, saying the ride-hailing company...
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Advises Preparation for Winter Weather
Dec 19 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller has advised consumers to plan ahead and review their homeowners and auto insurance policies as winter weather conditions like snow, sleet and ice become more...
California Commissioner Issues Auto Collision Repair Regulations
Dec 19 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued new Auto Collision Repair Labor Rate Survey Regulations in early December that he said will increase consumer protections when a damaged vehicle is repaired. The...
Supporting the Troops: Industry Gives Back to Those Who Served
Dec 19 2016 // Many property/casualty insurance carriers have focused their charitable efforts on veterans, and they’ve done so for a number of good reasons. One important reason for adopting veterans causes was explained by Glenn...
D&O Prices Down, Auto Up in Q3; Other Commercial Lines Stable
Dec 19 2016 // Price decreases accelerated for directors and officers insurance in the 2016 third quarter, a period during which commercial insurance prices generally remained flat once again overall. The latest Willis Towers...
California Commissioner Issues Anti-Steering Regulations
Dec 16 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has issued new Anti-Steering in Auto Body Repair regulations that he says increase protections to prevent consumers from being misled or claims delayed when a collision-damaged...
California Vs. Uber in Legal Bout over Self-driving Cars
Dec 16 2016 // Uber is riding its self-driving cars into a legal showdown with California regulators. The ridesharing company is refusing to obey demands by the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles that it immediately stop picking...
2017 Changes to Used Car Dealer Bonds in New York
Dec 16 2016 // Those in the business of selling used cars in the state of New York will need to comply with new surety bond requirements in the spring of 2017. The car dealer bond is part of the licensing criteria enforced by the New...
Hartford’s Execs Make Plea to End ‘Real Issue, Real Pain’ of Distracted Driving
Dec 16 2016 // Although small commercial insurance—outside of auto—is a top-line accelerator at The Hartford, auto insurance severity continues hitting the bottom line, say executives who expect a pretax $50 million prior-year...
Allstate Continues Its Technology Drive, Invests in Autonomous Vehicle Research at Stanford
Dec 15 2016 // Allstate Insurance Co., the nation’s largest publicly-held personal lines insurer, is continuing its drive into new technology, agreeing to a multi-year research project with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at...
Uber’s ‘Self-Driving’ Cars Already Roaming Streets of San Francisco
Dec 14 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. continues to dive head first into autonomous vehicles. Just don’t call them that in California. Starting today, Uber is letting customers in San Francisco hop in a self-driving car, if...
U.S. Sees Mandate on Talking Vehicles Cutting Road Crashes, Deaths
Dec 14 2016 // U.S. automobile regulators want passenger cars and light trucks to wirelessly stream data about their movements and monitor other vehicles so they don’t crash into each other. All new light-duty vehicles would be...
D&O Prices Down, Auto Up in Q3; Other Commercial Lines Stable
Dec 13 2016 // Price decreases accelerated for directors and officers insurance in the 2016 third quarter, a period during which commercial insurance prices generally remained flat once again overall. The latest Willis Towers...
National General Purchases Non-Standard Auto Renewal Rights from Nationwide
Dec 12 2016 // National General Holdings Corp. has entered into a renewal rights transaction with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. for its personal and commercial non-standard vehicle in-force policies. National General will partner with...
Auto-Owners Insurance Proposes Affiliation with New Hampshire-Based Concord
Dec 9 2016 // Auto-Owners Insurance, a Lansing, Michigan, based insurance provider, has announced its proposed affiliation with the Concord, N.H., based Concord General Mutual Insurance group of companies. The transaction has been...
Duck Boat Maker to Pay up to $1M over Washington Crash
Dec 7 2016 // The company that manufactured a duck boat involved in a deadly crash in Seattle last year has agreed to pay up to $1 million in civil penalties under a consent order, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
Insurance Crime Watchdog Reveals Mystery Device Used by Vehicle Thieves
Dec 7 2016 // Insurance crime investigators recently went on a crime spree, breaking into vehicles and stealing them. It was all part of an effort to draw attention to technology that the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) says is...
State Auto Western Region Adds McCarty as Underwriting Manager in Texas
Dec 7 2016 // State Auto’s Western Region has added Bob McCarty as underwriting manager for the Central/Southern Texas area. He is based in Austin. McCarty has 30 years of insurance and management experience. He began his career...
Verisk Teams with Driveway Software on Smartphone Telematics for Autos
Dec 6 2016 // Property/casualty insurance data supplier Verisk Insurance Solutions has formed a strategic alliance with Silicon Valley’s Driveway Software to jointly develop a smartphone telematics product for automakers, insurers...
Apple Urges Regulators to Go Easy on Autonomous Vehicle Testing
Dec 6 2016 // Apple Inc. is wading in to the debate over regulation of self-driving cars, declaring it is excited about the potential for automated transportation and calling on U.S. regulators not to restrict testing of such...
