Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ICT Kicks Off Crime Prevention Program in El Paso
Nov 24 2010 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has joined with State Farm Insurance Co. in introducing the state’s Hide, Lock and Take program to law enforcement officials in El Paso. Both the El Paso Sheriff’s...
Wyoming Leads Nation with Highest Motor Vehicle Fatality Rate
Nov 19 2010 // Wyoming has the unfortunate record of having the highest rates of motor vehicle fatalities per 100,000 people, with a rate of 24.6, according the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Fatality Analysis. According to...
Feds Urges All States to Require Motorcycle Helmets
Nov 18 2010 // Federal safety officials are calling on states to require all motorcycle riders to wear helmets, citing a surge in fatalities since the late 1990s. Motorcycle deaths have increased over the last decade even as other...
Some Vestiges of Patent Infringement Coverage Remain
Nov 18 2010 // Despite multiple changes in general liability insurance forms, redefined offenses, and the addition of exclusions, there are still instances in which coverage for patent infringement may exist. Under the standard CGL...
Washington, Oregon Rank High in Promoting Roadway Safety
Nov 18 2010 // Many states are making progress toward making roads safer, but Oregon and Washington do the best of promoting roadway safety with traffic laws, according to a new report by the Emergency Nurses Association. The report...
MetLife Auto & Home Expands Product Line in Texas With Package Product
Nov 17 2010 // MetLife Auto & Home has announced it will be supplementing its product line in Texas by introducing GrandProtect, a personal lines “package” policy. The product will be available to Texas residents as of...
U.S. Auto Fatalities Down But Safety Efforts Lag
Nov 17 2010 // The United States is lagging behind nearly every other high-income country in reducing annual traffic fatalities, said a report released this week by a U.S. government research panel. There’s some good news: U.S....
Texas Court Halts Sale of Unauthorized Auto Insurance
Nov 17 2010 // Travis County, Texas, District Judge Suzanne Covington issued a permanent injunction on Nov. 15 barring SideCars Inc. of Joplin, Mo., from marketing and selling a form of limited physical damage insurance to used car...
Fiesta Auto Insurance Named a Top Franchise for Minorities
Nov 16 2010 // The National Minority Franchising Initiative (NMFI) has selected Fiesta Auto Insurance as one of its “Top 50 Franchises for Minorities” based on several factors, including company historical performance, brand...
Iowa Joins States Barring Activities of Former U.S. Fidelis Owners
Nov 15 2010 // Attorney General Tom Miller and ten other state attorneys general, have obtained judgments against the owners of a former Missouri company, barring them from ever again selling auto service contracts or engaging in...
Zurich Report Urges Truck Fleets to Reduce Crashes with ‘Telematics’
Nov 15 2010 // A report from Zurich Financial Services Group concludes that trucking companies “could use new technological developments to reduce the costs of crashes in their motor fleets by up to 30 percent.” The report...
Some Vestiges of Patent Infringement Coverage Remain
Nov 14 2010 // Despite multiple changes in general liability forms, redefined offenses, and the addition of exclusions, there are still instances in which coverage for patent infringement may exist. Under the standard commercial general...
Declarations
Nov 14 2010 // Too Long to Wait “Four years is too long a period to wait when you know what is going on is just not right and not correct. … Anywhere else in business they’d kick a guy out on the street if he’s not...
Missouri AG, Insurance Chief Target Auto Warranty Firms
Nov 12 2010 // Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said he is amending his lawsuits against three companies that sold bogus auto warranty products by including the allegation that the companies have been selling insurance without a...
Workers’ Compensation Fees Would Cost New York Drivers, Insurers Warn
Nov 10 2010 // Proposed 30 percent increases in what medical providers in New York are paid for treating workers’ compensation injuries could have unintended consequences for the state’s motorists, an industry group has...
Tennessee Teens Delay Getting Behind the Wheel
Nov 9 2010 // Mackenzie Leake put off learning to drive for almost a year longer than most of her friends. It was out of a sense of self-preservation. “Every day I went out, I saw some sort of accident or scattered car parts in...
Why Now Is a Good Time for Agency Network Growth
Nov 5 2010 // They go by many names — networks, alliances, franchises, clusters and aggregators — but all have similar goals. Aggregator groups have been around the insurance industry for more than three decades but in the past few...
State Auto Reports Drop in Income, Higher Combined Ratio in Q3
Nov 2 2010 // State Auto Financial Corp., headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, reported third quarter 2010 net income of $0.2 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, versus net income of $13.0 million, or $0.33 per diluted share, for the third...
A New Way to Reach Consumers
Nov 1 2010 // Fiesta Auto Insurance Combines Insurance and Tax Preparation Services Under One Roof Modeling an insurance agency business after a sandwich shop might sound like an unusual goal, but that’s what John Rost, founder,...
It Figures
Nov 1 2010 // $19 Million A federal jury in Jonesboro, Ark., awarded $19 million to a Walnut Ridge man who sued Ford Motor Co., claiming that he was paralyzed in a car wreck because his seat belt was defective in his 1998 Windstar van....
