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Drive Underway to Increase Truckers’ Minimum Insurance Limits

Jun 5 2014 // Truckers would be required to buy higher insurance limits under a government proposal, although how much higher is not yet known. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) concluded in a report to Congress...

Some Trucking Firms Want Congress to Ease Safety Limit on Truckers’ Hours

Jun 5 2014 // The 70-hour cap on a U.S. trucker’s workweek has a chance of being eased by Congress, undoing the result of a 15-year effort to reduce highway fatalities caused by drowsy long-haul drivers. The main federal...

West Virginia Motor Vehicle Law Changes Go Into Effect This Week

Jun 4 2014 // The West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says some changes in laws will affect motorists starting this week. One new law allows DUI offenders to get on the ignition interlock program immediately if they do not...

Lockton Increases Auto Racing Presence with Buy of UK’s MIS Motorsport

Jun 4 2014 // Lockton announced that it has acquired the specialist motorsport insurance broker, MIS Motorsport, based in the UK in Guiseley, near Leeds. Lockton and MIS Motorsport completed the transaction on June 1st, 2014 after...

Used Car Dealer Seeks Damages For Inventory of ‘Defective’ GM Vehicles

Jun 3 2014 // An independent used-car dealer in Arkansas is seeking compensation from General Motors Co. for being saddled with “highly dangerous vehicles” that include cars not yet recalled over ignition-switch...

Penn. Advises Consumers to Check Insurance Before Using Rideshare Services

Jun 3 2014 // As the vacation travel season gets underway, Pennsylvania’s insurance department is reminding consumers to understand their personal auto insurance policies before participating with any of the new ridesharing...

State Auto Acquires Partners General Insurance Agency

Jun 2 2014 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. (State Auto) has completed its purchase of Partners General Insurance Agency (PGIA), a managing general underwriter specializing in excess and surplus lines...

Actuaries Grapple with Insurance Questions on Self-Driving Cars

Jun 2 2014 // The car of the future is pictured in an imagined scene in a 1950s science magazine. The illustration depicts a family sitting in a big convertible, a tail-finned monster. Mom, Dad and their kids are in a circle, playing a...

Arrests in California Fraud Ring Targeting Auto Dealers and Insurers

Jun 2 2014 // A four-year investigation into an organized fraud ring has uncovered a million-dollar scheme targeting high-end vehicles through auto loan and insurance fraud has led to several arrests, the California Department of...

Self-Driving Car Testing Rules Adopted by California

Jun 2 2014 // California has new rules that govern the testing of self-driving cars on public roads. The rules, approved on May 19 by state attorneys, require a human to be in the driver’s seat when a computer takes control during...

20 Years Later, Stolen 1966 Red Mustang Returned to Owner

Jun 2 2014 // Betsy Montgomery, drove the same car on her 55th birthday that she drove as a 15-year-old living in south Jackson, Mississippi – a 1966 red Mustang that her dad bought from the original owner in 1973. How she got the...

Michigan Car Insurance Fund Records not Public, Court Says

Jun 2 2014 // The Michigan appeals court says the public has no right to see the records of an insurance fund that puts a fee on cars to pay for catastrophic injuries. The court said that the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association is...

41 Charged for Multi-Million Dollar Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme in Philadelphia

May 30 2014 // The Philadelphia district attorney’s office has charged 41 people for what prosecutors described as a multi-million dollar auto insurance fraud scheme. Prosecutors allege Ronald Galati Sr. and his co-conspirators ran...

The Insurance Implications of Google’s Self-Driving Car

May 28 2014 // Google has announced a truly “driverless” car that lacks a steering wheel, brakes or anything else that allows a driver to control its movements. This actually strikes me as a much bigger deal for the insurance...

N.J. Insurance Commissioner Alerts Consumers on Car-Sharing Services

May 28 2014 // New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski alerted consumers to the potential loss of insurance coverage in connection with popular business activities known as car-sharing or Transportation...

New York DFS Issues Bulletin Urging Auto Insurers to Adopt Telematics Programs

May 28 2014 // New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued a bulletin to all New York auto insurers encouraging them to adopt “usage-based insurance” (UBI) programs. Under these voluntary programs,...

‘Look, Ma, No Steering Wheel’ in Google’s Autonomous Car

May 28 2014 // Google Inc. is building cars that don’t have steering wheels, accelerator pedals or brake pedals, in an ambitious expansion of the Internet company’s efforts to develop self-driving cars. The small electric...

Arrests in California Fraud Ring Targeting Auto Dealers and Insurers

May 23 2014 // A four-year investigation into an organized fraud ring has uncovered a million-dollar scheme targeting high-end vehicles through auto loan and insurance fraud has led to several arrests, according to the California...

OSHA Reviewing Alabama Car Parts Plant Use of Chemical

May 23 2014 // Federal regulators are investigating complaints about safety problems at an automotive parts plant in Selma. The Selma Times-Journal reported the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reviewing operations at...

Self-Driving Car Testing Rules Adopted by California

May 22 2014 // California has new rules that govern the testing of self-driving cars on public roads. The rules, approved Monday by state attorneys, require a human to be in the driver’s seat when a computer takes control during...