Latest Auto Headlines
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New Alabama Law Targets Drivers Without Insurance
Dec 26 2012 // The owners of the 900,000 Alabama vehicles without liability insurance stand a better chance of getting caught starting Jan. 1. That’s when the state will start enforcing a law designed to crack down on motorists who...
Progressive Data Shows 30% Rise in Single-Vehicle Claims on New Year’s Day
Dec 26 2012 // According to data from Progressive Insurance, single-vehicle claims were up 30 percent on New Year’s Day 2012, when compared to the same day of the week two weeks prior to and after New Year’s Day. The total...
Insurance Safety Group Releases Car Ratings Based on New Crash Test
Dec 20 2012 // Toyota Motor Corp.’s best-selling 2013 Camry received a “poor” crash-test rating on Thursday from an insurance industry group that awarded high marks to Honda Motor Co’s redesigned Accord sedan. The...
Louisiana Men Used Tow Truck to Steal Cars From Homes
Dec 18 2012 // A New Orleans, La., resident has helped police catch two men suspected of using a tow truck to steal cars from homes. Dawn Dedeaux tells WWL-TV that she caught two men trying to steal her van from a house near the Fair...
Allstate: Texas Car Crashes Spike More than 20% Around the Holidays
Dec 18 2012 // More Texans crash their cars during the holiday season than any other time of the year, according to an Allstate Insurance Co. review of its claims data over the five year period between 2006 and 2010. The number of auto...
Ohio Law Would Increase Auto Insurance Requirement
Dec 18 2012 // A new law approved by Ohio lawmakers would raise the minimum amount of car insurance motorists are required to carry. WBNS-TV reports that both the Ohio House and Senate passed bills that would raise minimum coverages. For...
Traffic Accidents Lead Cause of High-Severity Workers’ Comp Injuries: Study
Dec 18 2012 // Traffic accidents are a leading cause of high-severity workers’ compensation injuries. Moreover, they are pervasive; indeed, a 2006 study by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) noted that even the...
Louisiana Used Car Dealer Sentenced in Odometer Fraud Scheme
Dec 17 2012 // Beau Michael Guidry of Baton Rouge, La., has been sentenced in connection with an odometer tampering scheme that defrauded victims in and around Louisiana, the Justice Department announced. U.S. District Judge for the...
New Insurance Laws Taking Effect
Dec 17 2012 // A number of states have new insurance-related laws slated to take effect in 2013. Here’s a peek. Visit www.InsuranceJournal.com for more coverage. California: The California workers’ comp benefit delivery...
The Hartford to Pay $81K in Restitution for Auto Claims in Vermont
Dec 13 2012 // The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation says the Hartford Financial Services Group has agreed to pay more than $81,000 in restitution to Vermont customers whose auto insurance claims were improperly evaluated. The...
Deaths of Bicyclists, Large Truck Occupants Rise as Other Traffic Fatalities Fall
Dec 11 2012 // Deaths of bicyclists and occupants of large trucks rose sharply last year even as total traffic fatalities dropped to their lowest level since 1949, federal safety officials said Monday. Bicyclist deaths jumped 8.7 percent...
Dallas Cowboy Charged After Player Dies in Auto Accident
Dec 11 2012 // Police charged Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent with intoxication manslaughter after he flipped his car in a pre-dawn accident that killed teammate Jerry Brown. Irving police spokesman John Argumaniz said the...
Ohio Auto Salvage Bill Pits Industry Against Insurers
Dec 10 2012 // Ohio’s salvage industry says proposed state legislation that would open the auto salvage auction market to unlicensed buyers could cost up to 2,500 salvage jobs and eliminate consumer protection. Opponents of Senate...
Alabama Court Changes Standard for Commercial Vehicle Total Loss
Dec 10 2012 // The Alabama Supreme Court has changed a 57-year-old standard on how commercial vehicle owners get compensated when their vehicle is totaled in an accident. The court held in 1955 that an owner who recovered damages for the...
Mass. Motorcyclists to Get $2.8M Refunds From Encompass, Amica Mutual
Dec 4 2012 // Massachusetts motorcycle owners will receive more than $2.8 million in insurance refunds as a result of settlements with two insurance companies that allegedly overcharged thousands of policyholders, according to...
Electronic Stability Control in Cars Saving Lives: NHTSA
Dec 3 2012 // Electronic stability control technology (ESC) is saving an increasing number of lives each year, according to a three-year study by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety...
Michigan Regulators Say Fake Auto Insurance Sold in Metro Detroit
Dec 3 2012 // The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) recently announced that some Detroit-area drivers may have unknowingly purchased fraudulent automobile insurance policies from unlicensed insurance...
Women with Driver’s Licenses Now Outnumber Men
Dec 3 2012 // Women have passed men on the nation’s roads. More women than men now have driver’s licenses, a reversal of a longtime gender gap behind the wheel that transportation researchers say is likely to have safety and...
Indiana Truck Driver Logs 3 Million Miles of Safety
Nov 29 2012 // The distance around the Earth at the equator is 24,901 miles. By Kokomo, Ind.-based truck driver Richard Batt’s estimate, he could have driven around the planet nearly 24,100 times. And he would have done it all in a...
Van Eeten Elected to Lead Texas Surplus Lines Association
Nov 29 2012 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. announced that Kathy van Eeten, senior vice president – Regional Marketing for insurance broker CRC|Crump, has been elected president of the association for the coming year. Van...
