Latest Auto Headlines
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Surge in Auto Claims Dampens Allstate Q4 Profit
Feb 4 2016 // Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. car and home insurer, said fourth-quarter profit fell on a surge in auto claims. Net income declined 41 percent to $489 million, or $1.18 a share, from $824 million, or...
Aspen MGA Entering Texas Private Passenger Auto Market
Feb 2 2016 // Aspen Managing General Agency (MGA) announced it is entering the Texas private passenger auto market on March 1, 2016, led by industry veteran Paul Harrison. Aspen MGA is a division of Allstar Financial Group, an...
State Farm Introduces Ridehsare Coverage in Colorado
Feb 2 2016 // State Farm will offer customers a new endorsement in Colorado to cover insurance gaps for policyholders who use personal vehicles to provide rides for transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft. The optional...
Why Google’s Not So Smart or Fast and Insurance Agents Aren’t Dead… Yet
Feb 2 2016 // Insurance agents aren’t dead yet, but even underwriters participating in the personal automobile insurance market may be looking for another line of work within the next two decades, industry observers said at a...
A Drunk Driving Case Made for TV’s ‘Law & Order’
Jan 29 2016 // I can’t be the only one who thinks they should bring back the original “Law & Order.” If NBC did, the show’s first case should be one that went on trial this week in a local court in Mineola,...
Florida Tornado Tosses Vehicle Driving on Turnpike
Jan 29 2016 // A tornado picked up a southbound vehicle on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Lauderdale Wednesday morning and dropped it in the northbound lane as a line of severe storms hit the area, officials said. They said the...
Takata Discloses 11th Death Linked to Air Bag; Announces New 5 Million Vehicle Recall
Jan 27 2016 // U.S. auto safety regulators said Tuesday that air bag maker Takata Corp. declared 5.1 million U.S. vehicles defective, as the company disclosed an 11th death could be linked to a faulty airbag. Most of the vehicles...
Study: More People Killed by Guns in Tennessee than Car Accidents in 2014
Jan 27 2016 // More people died from gunshots than car accidents in Tennessee during 2014. The Violence Policy Center, an organization dedicated to informing people about gun violence, has produced a study comparing gun and car deaths...
The Main Street America Group Launches Personal Auto Program in South Carolina
Jan 26 2016 // The Main Street America Group has introduced Main Street Protection Auto, its new private passenger auto insurance program for the preferred/standard marketplace in South Carolina via its statewide network of independent...
Snowy East Coast Digs Out After Massive Weekend Blizzard
Jan 25 2016 // Millions of Americans started digging themselves out Sunday after a mammoth blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much of the East Coast to an icy standstill. New York and Baltimore began...
Trucking Industry Sees Safety Improvements
Jan 25 2016 // The rate of commercial truck-involved fatalities is declining, an industry trade group says. The American Trucking Associations reports that its analysis of federal Department of Transportation data shows safety...
Expert Sounds off on Legal, Insurance Issues of Self-Driving Cars
Jan 25 2016 // Hilary Rowen, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick LLP in Sacramento, Calif., for the last three years has been analyzing and following the insurance issues relating to the emergence of autonomous vehicles, particularly...
New York Vehicular Homicide Case Tests Limits of Criminal Blame
Jan 22 2016 // A New York man is about to go on trial in vehicular homicide case that tests the limits of criminal consequences. He wasn’t behind the wheel when a police officer was struck and killed — he was leaning against...
Auto Recalls in U.S. Passed 51 Million in 2015
Jan 22 2016 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday that automakers recalled 51.3 million vehicles in the United States last year, the second-highest ever, in 868 separate campaigns. NHTSA and automakers...
Texas Supreme Court: Loss-of-Use Damages Allowed in Total Loss Cases
Jan 21 2016 // Are loss-of-use damages, such as lost profits, allowed in Texas when an insured has recovered fair market value on a commercial vehicle that is deemed a total loss after an accident? The Texas Supreme Court thinks so,...
Utah Man Nabbed after Staging 23 Auto Accidents over 5 Years
Jan 21 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...
Why Regulation Is Good for Driverless Cars
Jan 21 2016 // You don’t often hear a libertarian praising a federal regulator when it starts offering “guidance” and “coordination” for some innovative industry. Well, mark your calendars, folks, because...
Carpenter Appoints Miller-van der Schild as Managing Director of Benelux Unit
Jan 20 2016 // Guy Carpenter & Co. has appointed Susanne Miller-van der Schild as managing director, Guy Carpenter Benelux, effective 1 February. Miller-van der Schild will be responsible for further developing Guy Carpenter’s...
U.S. to Ease Safety Rules to Accelerate Driverless Cars
Jan 15 2016 // f- Self-driving cars will get closer to appearing on American roads under a U.S. Transportation Department plan to speed their rollout. Regulators will allow automakers that can demonstrate they have a safe autonomous...
Self-Driving Cars Still Need Human Help in California Tests
Jan 14 2016 // Futuristic self-driving cars traveling along California roads have needed plenty of old-fashioned human intervention to stay safe. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles this week released reports filed by seven...
