Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Auto to Purchase Rockhill Insurance Group
Nov 19 2008 // State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company has announced that it has agreed to acquire Rockhill Insurance Group of Kansas City, Mo. Closing is expected in the first quarter of 2009, subject to approval by regulatory...
Deer Crashes in Indiana Increase 25 % During Last 5 Years
Nov 19 2008 // The number of Indiana motorists colliding with deer is on the rise despite state-sanctioned hunts intended to bring down their numbers. Deer-vehicle accidents in Indiana are up 25 percent since 2003 compared with 15...
Michigan Consumer Advocate Hosts Final Public Hearing in Detroit
Nov 18 2008 // Michigan’s Automobile and Home Insurance Consumer Advocate Melvin Butch Hollowell held the final public hearing in Detroit on Saturday, Nov. 15 to hear from consumers and industry experts about the affordability of...
Explorer Insurance Cuts California Auto Rates 15 Percent
Nov 17 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced a 15 percent rate cut for Explorer Insurance Co.’s auto insurance policyholders, saving them approximately $3.4 million. Explorer Insurance initially filed...
Kentucky Revs Up Insurance for Low-Speed Electric Vehicles
Nov 16 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear recently signed legislation directing the state’s transportation department to develop standards to authorize the operation of low speed electric vehicles on Kentucky highways. Sharon P....
Attract and Win Social Services Business with Risk Management Strategies
Nov 16 2008 // How Insurance Professionals Can Be Valuable Advisors to Non-Profit Organizations Operating a non-profit social service business has always been a challenging balance between meeting constituent needs, funding the...
Mich. Hosts Hearings on Auto Insurance Affordability; Industry Counters
Nov 13 2008 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Regulation’s consumer advocate is hosting a series of public hearings on the issue of insurance affordability. Melvin Butch Hollowell was appointed by Governor Jennifer M....
Vermont Man Pleads Not Guilty in Crash That Sparked Fire
Nov 13 2008 // A passenger involved in a car accident that triggered a huge building fire in Vermont says the driver had been drinking and driving fast before the crash. Gabrielle Perez told police her boyfriend, Robert Dragon III, 18,...
Environmentalists Praise By-the-Mile Auto Insurance Option in Texas
Nov 13 2008 // Environmental Defense Fund is praising MileMeter for recently launching a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) insurance program in Texas that will reward low-mileage drivers with lower premiums than traditional, flat-rate...
Main Street America Introduces New Commercial Auto Endorsement
Nov 13 2008 // The Main Street America Group introduced a new commercial auto endorsement — Commercial Auto Elite — available nationwide. The endorsement complements the super regional property/casualty insurance...
Motorcycle-Related Deaths in Connecticut Lower than 1980s
Nov 11 2008 // Connecticut transportation officials say even with thousands of new motorcyclists in Connecticut, the death rate involving motorcycles has gone down in the past two decades. As of Nov. 1, state figures show that 54 people...
New Colorado Car Insurance Law Drives Consumer Education
Nov 11 2008 // Starting this month, the mail and inboxes of Colorado drivers will begin filling up with notices from their car insurance companies informing customers of a new “opt-out” requirement due to a new Colorado Law...
National Study Says Michigan Average Auto Premiums Decline
Nov 10 2008 // Michigan’s average auto insurance premiums decreased in 2006, compared to 2005, a recent study released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) shows. For the two-year period 2004-6, Michigan...
Crash Victim’s Widow Sues New Jersey Truck Driver
Nov 10 2008 // A Vermont woman whose husband died when a tractor-trailer slammed into two vehicles is suing the driver for negligence. Forty-two-year-old Kenneth A. Middlebusher, of Deptford, N.J., is charged with gross negligent...
South Carolina Auto Insurance Rates up Slightly in 2006
Nov 7 2008 // South Carolina auto insurance rates increased slightly in 2006, but remained on average lower than most national rates. A study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners showed that South Carolina drivers paid...
Van Gilder Creates New Real Estate Division
Nov 7 2008 // Denver-based Van Gilder Insurance Corp. has created a new business unit designed to serve the housing-related commercial real estate market. The new unit will be called the Habitational Real Estate Division, and will serve...
Kentucky Deals with Insurance for Low-Speed Electric Vehicles
Nov 5 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear recently signed legislation directing the state’s transportation department to develop and implement standards to authorize the operation of low speed electric vehicles on Kentucky...
Mass. Drivers Slow to Shop Under New Auto System
Nov 2 2008 // Barely six months into Massachusetts’ new deregulated auto insurance system — one designed to favor consumers who shop around for the best rates — fewer than one in four drivers have actually done so, according...
Mass. Surviving Bumps in the Auto Insurance Road
Nov 2 2008 // Burnes Rules Out Permitting Insurers to Use Credit Scores; Goes Slow on Property Market Issues Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has presided over the biggest shakeup in the Massachusetts’ personal...
Higher Gas Prices Drive Down Auto Rates, Drive Up Politics Over Regulation in New York
Nov 2 2008 // In New York, there exists a curious relationship between gas prices and insurance premiums, at least in government officials’ minds. Gov. David Paterson said his state’s efforts to rein in insurance rates by...
