Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi Senate Passes Auto Insurance Verification Bill
Mar 11 2011 // A bill designed to force compliance with Mississippi mandatory insurance laws passed this week in the Senate, and was among several proposals facing a legislative deadline. The bill would allow the state Department of...
California to Extend Low-Cost Auto Program to Same Sex Spouses
Mar 10 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has filed regulations to add the category of “spouse” to the application form for the state’s Low Cost Auto Insurance Program. “The definition of...
Nationwide Insurance Lowering Ohio Car Insurance Rates 10% for New Customers
Mar 10 2011 // Nationwide Insurance Company announced it is lowering car insurance rates in Ohio 10 percent for new customers. The company is also offering savings on auto insurance rates for current customers who meet eligibility...
Progressive Extends Pet Injury Coverage to Commercial Auto Customers’ Pets
Mar 8 2011 // Business owners can now protect their dogs and cats with Progressive’s free Pet Injury coverage. How it works: If a dog or cat is hurt in a vehicle accident, Progressive will pay vet bills up to $1,000. Key Points:...
Reducing Car Crashes One Reason to Thin Deer Herd in Indiana
Mar 8 2011 // One in 140 drivers in Indiana is likely to a hit a deer this year. That’s the statistic the State Farm insurance agency formulated last year when it studied the number of deer-vehicle collisions across the...
Kruse Joins Condon & Skelly
Mar 8 2011 // Pennsylvania-based NSM Insurance Group has named Jim Kruse as program director for Condon & Skelly, the specialty car insurer the NSM acquired last year. Kruse is a collector car owner with over 18 years experience in...
E&O Insights: Common Auto, Homeowners Errors
Mar 7 2011 // An Estimated 30% of All Agency E&O Claims Arise from Handling Auto and Homeowners Business When dissecting Errors & Omissions claims frequency, it is apparent there is real E&O exposure for agencies writing...
4 Consumer Misconceptions About Personal Lines
Mar 7 2011 // Agents, Don’t Be on Spring Break When Customers Need You to Prepare for Summer As spring draws near, it’s time to reconnect with your clients. There is no better time than now to reach out and address some...
Newer Web Sites Gaining Online Auto Insurance Market Share
Mar 7 2011 // Newer auto insurance and aggregator sites are attracting an increasing share of the online auto insurance market that has been dominated by GEICO and Progressive, according to a new report. In the fourth quarter of 2010,...
Bill Would Increase Minimum Car Insurance in Nevada
Mar 4 2011 // Legislators says a bill that would increase the minimum vehicle liability insurance may be a good idea, but some fear it would be onerous for the poor and indigent and result in more uninsured drivers on the road. AB120 is...
Preferred Concepts Launches Auto Industry Division
Mar 4 2011 // Preferred Concepts, LLC, a national insurance program administrator, has established an automotive industry underwriting unit, SeaFire Insurance Services a division that initially will specialize in franchise auto dealers,...
New Louisiana Online Auto, Homeowners Rate Guides Available
Mar 3 2011 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that the 2010 online auto and homeowners rate comparison guides are now available for viewing on the Department of Insurance Web site at www.ldi.la.gov. The...
Florida Interests Unite Against Auto Accident Fraud
Mar 1 2011 // Florida insurers, government agencies and consumer advocate groups have established a statewide alliance to push for legislative reforms aimed at cracking-down on staged-accidents that the industry says are costing Florida...
Florida Insurers, Businesses Take Aim at PIP Fraud
Feb 24 2011 // Insurance companies are taking to the Internet to combat auto insurance fraud in Florida. The Property Casualty Insurers Association of American has launched www.InsuranceFraudUncovered.com, a Web site designed to...
California’s Median Auto Insurance Rate Decreases 3%
Feb 24 2011 // The median six-month auto insurance rate in California has decreased approximately 3.1 percent over the past 12 months to reach $809 according to InsWeb. Over the same 12-month period, the national median auto insurance...
Garcia, Ross Reappointed to Texas Auto Burglary, Theft Prevention Authority
Feb 22 2011 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has reappointed Carlos Garcia of Brownsville and Kenneth Ross of Houston to the state Automobile Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority for terms to expire Feb. 1, 2017. The authority assesses the...
Illinois Work Comp Commission Shuts Down Uninsured Auto Clinic
Feb 22 2011 // On Feb. 18, 2010, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) shut down an uninsured employer: ZRJ Auto Repair at 2545 W Chicago Avenue in Chicago. The Commission reported that as in previous cases, it gave...
Wisconsin Senate Passes Lower Car Insurance Levels
Feb 21 2011 // The Wisconsin state Senate passed legislation that would lower minimum levels of auto insurance. Car insurance would still be required under the bill passed on a bipartisan 25-7 vote, but the levels of coverage required...
Wisconsin Senate Passes Lower Car Insurance Levels
Feb 21 2011 // The Wisconsin state Senate passed legislation that would lower minimum levels of auto insurance. Car insurance would still be required under the bill passed on a bipartisan 25-7 vote, but the levels of coverage required...
North Carolina Auto Insurers: No Rate Change Necessary
Feb 21 2011 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced good news for drivers in the state after the North Carolina Rate Bureau submitted its latest rate filing calling for no change in passenger car and motorcycle...
