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Freeway Crash Kills Honolulu Police Officer
Jan 23 2012 // Police say a Honolulu, Hawaii officer died following a three-vehicle crash on the H-1 freeway in Aiea. The crash occurred Saturday night as the officer’s car was on the side of the freeway behind another pickup...
Commissioner: North Dakota Has 2nd Lowest Auto Insurance Premiums
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm reports that North Dakotans are paying the second lowest auto insurance premiums in the nation. The ranking was indicated in the “Auto Insurance Database Report 2008/2009,”...
Auto Insurance Limits Would Rise Under Nebraska Bill
Jan 23 2012 // The minimum amount of coverage for certain types of liability insurance would increase for Nebraska motorists, under a bill introduced in the state Legislature. State Sen. Paul Schumacher said the financial responsibility...
Western Insurance Agents Roundtable: In Uncertain Economy, Change Is Certain
Jan 23 2012 // The economy, the promised-land of a hard insurance market and the need to master technologies dominated discussion at the first annual Insurance Industry Roundtable in Irvine, Calif. The daylong event was attended by 23...
Auto Insurance Claim Costs Rising Again
Jan 23 2012 // Auto insurance claim costs countrywide have recently increased, reversing previous trends of declining or relatively stable costs. A new report from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) documents auto injury claim trends,...
Auto Insurance Claim Costs Rising Again
Jan 23 2012 // Auto insurance claim costs countrywide have recently increased, reversing previous trends of declining or relatively stable costs, a recently released study found. An Insurance Research Council (IRC) report, “Trends...
As User-Based Insurance Takes Off, Towers Watson Steers It Globally
Jan 21 2012 // When Towers Watson expanded its user-based insurance (UBI) DriveAbility program beyond the United States in late fall, it wasn’t just based on a whim. Simply put, UBI is taking off. For now, the interest is primarily...
Auto Insurance Discount Act Qualifies For California Ballot
Jan 20 2012 // The Secretary of State has verified the 2012 Automobile Insurance Discount Act will qualify for the November ballot. The initiative had the 504,760 signatures required to place the initiative on a statewide ballot. The...
Texas-Based CAA Sees Nearly 20% Premium Growth in Q3 2011
Jan 20 2012 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), headquartered in Austin, Texas, reported 19.5 percent growth in written property/casualty premiums in the third quarter of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010. CAA, whose 47...
Ice Storm Adds to Weather Woes in Pacific Northwest
Jan 20 2012 // A deadly ice storm swept across the Pacific Northwest on Thursday, adding to the misery of residents struggling with power outages and treacherous roads since an earlier record snowfall. Washington’s governor...
Consumer Group Publishes ‘Insiders’ Advice’ on Filing Auto Claims
Jan 20 2012 // The Consumer Federation of America, a Washington, D.C.-based group whose insurance division is directed by consumer advocate J. Robert Hunter, recently published a guide with “insiders’ advice” on filing...
N.J. Siblings Indicted for Auto Insurance Claims Fraud
Jan 19 2012 // Authorities in New Jersey announced last week that a Union City woman and her Jersey City brother were indicted for their alleged roles in a scheme to submit false auto insurance claims. According to Acting Insurance Fraud...
XL Adds Excess Auto Coverage to E&S Product Line
Jan 13 2012 // XL Group’s insurance segment has added excess auto coverage to its excess and surplus product offerings. The company has hired Michael Gramm to manage the new product line. He will join the company as vice president...
Five Star Expands Classes for Business Auto Program
Jan 11 2012 // Five Star Specialty Programs has announced a new market for the business auto program, which will provide additional coverage for more classes, including wholesale distributors, retail locations and various...
Florida Lawmakers File Bills to Address Auto Insurance PIP Fraud
Jan 11 2012 // State Sen. Joe Negron this week filed legislation designed to crack down on the fraud that leads to more expensive personal injury protection insurance required of all Florida drivers. Negron’s bill (SB 1860) targets...
‘Like’ Facebook in Driver’s Seat? Mercedes Offers App Inside Cars
Jan 9 2012 // At restaurants, at movies and at the office, checking Facebook has become a regular habit for many of the Internet social network’s more than 800 million users. Now that habit has reached a new frontier: the...
Consumer Group Hammers Mercury Rate Increase Filing in California
Jan 9 2012 // A California consumer group is challenging a rate hike bid by Mercury Insurance because the group claims the company is trying to pass along the costs of its political campaigning. But the insurer says those costs are not...
Insurers Divided Over North Carolina Auto System
Jan 9 2012 // North Carolina legislators are once again examining the state’s car insurance rate-setting system as insurers themselves remain divided over whether changes are a good idea. Legislative proposals floated in 2011...
California Arson Suspect Also Faces German Fire Probe
Jan 6 2012 // The man who allegedly ignited more than 50 fires that terrorized Los Angeles last week is also under investigation in Germany for a house fire near Frankfurt. U.S. investigators also disclosed that a search of Harry...
State Auto Enters Quota Share Agreement for Homeowners Business
Jan 5 2012 // State Auto Financial Corp., based in Columbus, Ohio, announced that the State Auto Group has entered into a quota share reinsurance agreement with a syndicate of reinsurers covering its homeowners book of business. The...
