Latest Auto Headlines
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GEICO in Maryland Names New Senior Vice President
Mar 12 2013 // GEICO, a Chevy Chase, Md.-headquartered auto insurance unit of Berkshire Hathaway, announced that Seth Ingall has been named senior vice president, with responsibility for claims home office, staff counsel, communications...
Breaking Up North Carolina’s Auto Insurance Cartel
Mar 12 2013 // Legislation to break up North Carolina’s rate bureau cartel and bring the state’s auto insurance market into the 21st Century has now been introduced in both houses of the General Assembly. This past week, Rep....
Agents Hang Onto P/C Market But Lose Ground in Personal Auto: Study
Mar 11 2013 // After experiencing dwindling premiums for years, the property/casualty insurance industry managed to grow substantially in 2011. Independent agents and brokers hung onto their share of the market with some independent...
Industry Predictions
Mar 11 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Mitchell, a provider of technology and information to the property/casualty claims and collision repair industries, recently released its predictions for trends related to cloud computing and big...
Texas Market Share: Homeowners and Personal Auto
Mar 11 2013 // Top 40 Insurers/Homeowners Based on 2011 Texas Written Premium Rank Company $ Written Premium % of Market 1 State Farm Lloyds $1,678,075,665 28.09% 2 Allstate Texas Lloyd’s 462,398,477 7.74% 3 Texas Farmers Ins....
High-Tech Personal Lines
Mar 11 2013 // How technology is changing the way agents do business Many believe there is still opportunity for independent insurance agents and their carriers to grab personal lines market share. But to do so they must find a way to...
Esurance Now Offering Renters Coverage in Indiana
Mar 8 2013 // Esurance, the direct-to-consumer personal car insurance company, is now offering renters coverage in Indiana. The renters coverage is offered as an add-on to an Esurance car insurance policy, and is available to both new...
USG adds Angi and Van Zanten to California Operations
Mar 7 2013 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and managing general agent added producers/brokers Joyce Chambers and Angi Van Zanten. Chambers has more than 20 years of experience in insurance. Most recently Chambers...
Garagekeepers Sometimes Lags in the Auto Repair Shop
Mar 5 2013 // The neighborhood auto repair shop or local gas station might seem to be an easy risk to insure. But there are a few misunderstood coverages that agents and brokers should know about, says one California broker specializing...
Texas Auto Insurers Back Texting While Driving Restrictions
Feb 27 2013 // Texas’ major auto insurers support proposed legislation to prohibit texting while driving as the next logical step to prevent accidents and deaths on Texas’ increasingly crowded roadways. Beaman Floyd,...
Trinity Underwriting Managers Announces Commercial Auto Program
Feb 26 2013 // Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), a Georgia-based program administrator, has expanded its commercial auto capabilities. TUMI has established a relationship with an “A” rated carrier that underwrites...
Georgia Considers Electronic Auto Insurance Card
Feb 25 2013 // Georgia drivers would be able to have an electronic version of their car insurance card under a proposal that has cleared the state House of Representatives. The plan from Monroe Republican Bruce Williamson now heads to...
North Carolina’s Goodwin: Home, Auto, Health and More…
Feb 25 2013 // Interview with Recently Re-Elected Insurance Commissioner Recently re-elected North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is more focused on reform of the homeowners insurance market than he is on auto insurance....
Indiana Man Sues over Crash That Killed His Wife
Feb 22 2013 // The husband of a northeastern Indiana woman who died when a semi-trailer rear-ended two cars in January is suing the truck driver and the truck’s owner. The federal lawsuit seeks at least $75,000 in damages in the...
Parents Win $10.5M Verdict in Dallas ‘Monster Truck’ Death
Feb 22 2013 // The parents of a 23-year-old woman killed when she was struck by a “monster truck” in a Dallas “gentlemen’s club” parking lot have won a $10.5 million civil verdict against the driver and the...
Idea to Limit Auto Claims in Michigan Criticized
Feb 22 2013 // The top elected official in Michigan’s Oakland County is criticizing proposals from fellow Republicans to change Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance program to limit the amount of medical claims. The Detroit...
Michigan’s Unlimited Auto Insurance, Revisited
Feb 21 2013 // Most of the attempts to fix Michigan’s long-time Essential Insurance Act have ended as spectacularly as the meteor which exploded over the Ural Mountains town of Chelyabinsk a few days ago, injuring over a thousand...
National Insurance Crime Bureau: Sandy-Damaged Vehicles Surpass 250K Mark
Feb 21 2013 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today announced revised estimates for the number of vehicles damaged as a result of Superstorm Sandy. The current estimate of vehicles damaged as a result of Sandy is now set at...
Police Blame Missouri Law for Rise in Vanishing Cars
Feb 20 2013 // Why are thefts of older vehicles climbing in Missouri? And why are so many of them never seen again? St. Louis-area police who pondered what seemed like an improbable trend say they believe they have found the culprit...
Bill to Mandate Motorcycle Helmets Aired in Maine
Feb 15 2013 // The latest proposal to again make helmet use mandatory for all Maine motorcyclists was couched Tuesday, Feb. 12, by supporters as a public safety issue and by opponents as a matter of personal freedom. Medical groups...
