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California Insurance Agent Faces Felony Charges for Pocketing Auto Premiums
Feb 23 2016 // Anthony John Diaz, 35, was arraigned today in the Fresno County Superior Court in California to answer charges that he allegedly stole insurance premiums from policyholders. Diaz was arrested earlier this month by...
Former NYPD Cop Jailed for Filing False Auto Claims
Feb 23 2016 // Authorities said a former New York City police officer has been sentenced to two to six years in state prison for a scheme to defraud auto insurance companies. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the...
GEICO Expands Ridesharing Coverage to South Carolina Drivers
Feb 23 2016 // GEICO is now offering a new ridesharing insurance product to drivers in South Carolina. GEICO’s ridesharing product replaces the driver’s personal auto policy and provides coverage for personal, ridesharing and...
Michigan’s Inadvertent Tax Break for Car Insurers Targeted for Repeal
Feb 22 2016 // Gov. Rick Snyder and lawmakers inadvertently gave auto insurers a tax break worth $80 million a year. Now, they want to end it _ either to bail out Detroit’s state-managed school district or to address other...
State Auto Says Corrections Underway After Disappointing 2015
Feb 22 2016 // State Auto Financial Corp. ended 2015 with a steep drop in net income and a combined ratio that landed well above 100. Executives blamed a bad year for the insurer’s auto lines but added that they’ve taken...
Louisiana Using New Way to Collect Fines for Auto Insurance Lapses
Feb 22 2016 // Louisiana has implemented new ways of collecting fines from people the state believes are driving without insurance. The Advocate reports the recently formed Office of Debt Recovery has the authority to extract money from...
Trucking Industry Sees Safety Improvements
Feb 22 2016 // The rate of commercial truck-involved fatalities is declining, an industry trade group says. The American Trucking Associations say its analysis of federal Department of Transportation data shows safety improvements in the...
U.S. Safety Agency to Google: Software Qualifies as a Driver
Feb 22 2016 // U.S. vehicle safety regulators have said the artificial intelligence system piloting a self-driving Google car could be considered the driver under federal law, a major step toward ultimately winning approval for...
3 Examples of How Telematics Can Aid Insurance Claims Handling
Feb 19 2016 // While information derived from usage based insurance telematics hasn’t been fully utilized in the claims process, the benefits it can provide – consistency, efficiency and accuracy – offer a way to reduce claims...
Williams Joins J.M. Wilson as Public & Business Auto Underwriter
Feb 18 2016 // J.M. Wilson has added Robin Williams as public and business auto underwriter in Portage, Mich. Williams is responsible for quoting new and renewal public and business auto accounts, working with company underwriters, and...
Missouri Senators Debate Government Role in Road Safety
Feb 12 2016 // Bills governing seat belt use, texting while driving and helmet requirements for motorcyclists prompted debate in a Missouri Senate committee over whether the government should play a larger role in road safety. Two bills...
Louisiana Using New Way to Collect Fines for Auto Insurance Lapses
Feb 12 2016 // Louisiana has implemented new ways of collecting fines from people the state believes are driving without insurance. The Advocate reports the recently formed Office of Debt Recovery has the authority to extract money from...
U.S. Safety Rules Key to Driverless Car Future: Google
Feb 12 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit told U.S. auto safety regulators that the government’s interpretation of motor vehicle safety rules is “extremely important” to its further development of fully...
NTSB Blames Poor Oversight in Deadly Illinois Truck Crash
Feb 11 2016 // Failed safety oversight was partly to blame for a deadly crash near Chicago in which a truck driver for a company already flagged as high-risk fell asleep and plowed into emergency vehicles, a federal accident...
Kemper P/C Group Executive Lynch Exits
Feb 11 2016 // Kemper Corp.’s Denise I. Lynch is leaving her position as Property/Casualty group executive, effective immediately, to pursue other opportunities, the insurer said. The news comes after Kemper reported its P/C...
Software Qualifies as a Driver, Says U.S. Safety Agency on Google Self-Driving Car
Feb 10 2016 // U.S. vehicle safety regulators have said the artificial intelligence system piloting a self-driving Google car could be considered the driver under federal law, a major step toward ultimately winning approval for...
Self-Driving Vehicles Meet Their Match When Snow Creates Sensor Blindness
Feb 10 2016 // In Jokkmokk, a tiny hamlet just north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, where temperatures can dip to 50 below, Volvo Cars’ self-driving XC90 sport-utility vehicle met its match: frozen flakes that caked on radar...
Auto Insurance Specialists Acquires Suncal Insurance Services
Feb 9 2016 // Agency acquisition complements AIS’s strong record of internal growth. Cerritos, CA, February 9, 2016 – Auto Insurance Specialists (AIS) today announced the acquisition of Suncal Insurance Services based in...
Police Warn of Uptick in Car Thefts in Dayton, Ohio
Feb 8 2016 // Police in a southwest Ohio city are warning residents of an increase in vehicle thefts. The Dayton Daily News reports Dayton Sgt. John Riegel says many car theft victims who left their vehicles running. He says it’s...
Utah Man Nabbed after Staging 23 Auto Accidents over 5 Years
Feb 8 2016 // Utah-man Navid Monjazeb faces 22 counts of insurance fraud, reckless endangerment, and other crimes spanning five years and at least 23 known accidents – with the same three vehicles. Charges resulting from a months-long...
