Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Volvo’s 2020 Vision: The Injury-Proof Automobile
May 1 2008 // The destruction of the orange sedan with its slapdash paintwork may have been intentional but it was far from wanton. It was all part of Volvo’s bid to create an injury-proof car by 2020. While that vehicle of the...
Allstate to Comply with Order to Lower Calif. Auto Rates by 15.9%
May 1 2008 // California automobile insurance units of Allstate Corp. will lower rates by 15.9 percent by a May 12 deadline, complying with an order by the state’s insurance regulator that it had challenged, a company spokesman...
Excessive Speed, Stunts, Could Mean Prison Time for Florida Motorcyclists
May 1 2008 // Florida motorcycle riders would face increased fines and could end up in prison for excessive speeding and stunt riding under a bill that will now head to the governor’s desk. The purpose of the bill is to stop the...
Progressive Begins Selling Mass. Auto Online; Casco Looks to Enter
May 1 2008 // Progressive Insurance begins selling personal auto insurance online in Massachusetts today. Meanwhile, Casco Indemnity, which writes auto insurance in the other New England states on behalf of several mutual fire insurers,...
Ark. Regulators: MLK Director Made Misrepresentations in Auto Claims
May 1 2008 // The new director of Arkansas’ Martin Luther King Commission made misrepresentations in insurance claims for traffic accidents tied to an insurance fraud ring, according to a circuit court case filed by the Arkansas...
Farmers Offers Discount to Owners of Vehicles with Stability Control
Apr 30 2008 // Farmers Group Inc. is offering an auto insurance discount to Texas policyholders who have vehicles equipped with electronic stability control (ESC) technology. The 5 percent discount begins May 1. It will apply to the...
Michigan Auto Insurance Bill Would Give Motorists Choice in Med Coverage
Apr 30 2008 // A bill being considered by the Michigan legislature would let motorists save up to 16 percent on their auto insurance by choosing less medical coverage. Michigan is the only state to require unlimited personal injury...
Auto Fraud Suspect Arrested in California
Apr 29 2008 // A Desert Hot Springs, Calif., resident was arrested for allegedly defrauding his insurance company of $26,000, the California Department of Insurance reported. Robert Andrew Nelson, 44, was arrested in Cathedral City,...
Maryland Car Dealership Fire Causes $3M in Damage
Apr 29 2008 // Fire investigators say a blaze at a car dealership in Prince Frederick, Maryland did $3 million worth of damage. In addition to the main showroom at Bayside Automotive, five vehicles belonging to the dealership and to...
California Court Denies Allstate’s Request to Avoid $250 Million Rate Reduction
Apr 25 2008 // A San Francisco judge has refused Allstate’s request to block a 15.9 percent automobile insurance rate decrease. According to the California Department of Insurance, the rate decrease should take effect immediately,...
West has Highest Vehicle Theft Rates
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Vermont Considers Special Car Locks for Repeat Drunk Drivers
Apr 23 2008 // The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he wants Vermont to study special ignition locks for repeat drunken drivers that would require a clean breath test before allowing a car to be started. “My intention...
Agents in the East Find Recession Hurts Others More
Apr 22 2008 // Insurance agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic are worried about how their customers and they will fare as the region’s economy continues to slow. “An agent’s business is a direct reflection of...
Colorado Motorcycle Fatalities Reach Record High
Apr 22 2008 // Motorcycle fatalities are on the rise in Colorado, doubling from 45 in 1995 to an all-time high of 90 deaths in 2007, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). In the past five years (2003-2007) in...
New York: Car Repair Shops Can Rebate Deductibles
Apr 22 2008 // Allowing car collision repair facilities to pay all or part of a deductible to an insured does not constitute a rebate prohibited under New York law, lawyers for the state’s insurance department have said. The...
Trio Arrested for International Auto Fraud
Apr 21 2008 // Three individuals were arrested in California for allegedly being involved in a five-person conspiracy that resulted in a vehicle owned by one of the conspirators driven to Mexico where it was taken apart so that its parts...
Mass. Agents Balk Over 6-Month Auto Policies
Apr 21 2008 // Massachusetts will permit auto insurers to sell six-month policies in another change under the state’s newly operational managed competition system that gives insurers more freedom. Independent agents have balked at...
Mass. Auto Web Site Misleads Consumers, Say Agents and AG
Apr 21 2008 // A state Web site intended to educate consumers about Massachusetts’ newly deregulated auto insurance market instead gives them inaccurate rate comparisons, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley. Coakley argued...
Insurers: Colorado Bill Threatens Auto Insurance Savings
Apr 21 2008 // The Colorado Legislature is considering a bill that the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America claims would add bureaucratic red tape and costs to the state’s automobile insurance system. House Bill 1389,...
Auto Exempted from Colorado Fair Accountable Insurance Rates Act
Apr 18 2008 // After more than five hours of testimony and deliberation on Colorado House Bill 1389, the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee has amended a controversial bill that insurance associations said would have imposed a...
