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Esurance and Walmart Team Up for Auto Insurance Discount Program

Mar 22 2013 // Esurance is launching a pilot program offering auto insurance discounts to customers at select Walmart stores in Illinois. Through the pilot program, drivers may obtain a savings card from Esurance kiosks located in...

Colorado Could be Next to Allow Phones To Prove Car Insurance

Mar 20 2013 // License, registration and proof of insurance. The officer’s request could soon be met in part using a smartphone in Colorado. The Colorado Senate voted unanimously Tuesday for an update to the state’s car...

West Virginia Senate Committee Backs Higher Auto Minimum Limits

Mar 20 2013 // A West Virginia Senate committee advanced a bill this week that would likely increase car insurance premiums for drivers who can least afford it, but also expand liability coverage for the highest-risk drivers. The bill...

Lock, Take and Hide Signs Working in Mesquite, Texas

Mar 19 2013 // The Mesquite Police Department reports the simple message from the Lock, Take and Hide crime prevention signs have had a tremendous impact on reducing auto thefts and burglaries in their city. The police department...

GEICO Appoints AVP to Lead PIP Staff Counsel Operation in New York

Mar 14 2013 // GEICO, a Chevy Chase, Md.-headquartered auto insurance unit of Berkshire Hathaway, said Richard Solowan has been named assistant vice president of the GEICO companies. In his new role, Solowan will be responsible for the...

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...