Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Auto Exec. to Discuss Texas Market at Dallas All-Industry Day
Nov 15 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies Executive Vice President and COO Mark Blackburn will offer his view of Texas, the nation’s third-largest property and casualty market, at the 2007 Dallas...
Peerless Insurance Returning to Mass. Auto Under Managed Competition
Nov 14 2007 // Liberty Mutual Group today announced that one of its companies – Keene, N.H.-based Peerless Insurance – intends to return to the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market next year after a 20-year...
Mo. Dept.: Mid-November Most Dangerous Time for Deer Crashes
Nov 14 2007 // In 2006, deer were the cause of 3,530 traffic crashes in Missouri, resulting in 364 injuries and three deaths, according to the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional...
Progressive Car Insurance Adds Collision Benefit for Pets
Nov 13 2007 // One U.S. auto insurance company is now offering coverage for pets. Progressive Corp. is providing collision coverage for customers’ dogs or cats at no additional premium cost. It will pay up to $500 if a...
N.Y. Escort Service Operator Facing Sentencing for Insurance Fraud
Nov 9 2007 // An escort service operator who used female associates to stage auto accidents and collect on insurance claims faces five to 10 years in prison following his guilty plea Oct. 29 on two counts of felony insurance fraud,...
Hanover Ready to Offer Connector Product in New Mass. Auto Market
Nov 9 2007 // As Massachusetts prepares to open up its private passenger auto insurance market to more competition, The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is ready to drive in with coverages it has been offering in other states but not in...
Liberty Mutual to Grow Mass. Sales Force by 50% to Handle Auto
Nov 9 2007 // Liberty Mutual, the state’s fourth-largest auto insurer, announced plans to add 30 sales representatives in Massachusetts – a 50 percent increase – by the time the state implements new managed competition...
National Crime Bureau Offers Free VINCheck for Unrecovered Vehicles
Nov 7 2007 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), based in Des Plaines, Ill., recently announced that it has launched a free service to help protect the nation’s consumers. Over one million vehicles have been stolen...
Will Mass. Give Thanks for Managed Competition or Rate It a Turkey?
Nov 7 2007 // Massachusetts has three dates coming up that could be turning points in determining who gives thanks for the state’s new managed competition auto insurance system and who rates it a turkey. Insurance Commissioner...
Calif. Holds Hearing on Allstate’s Auto Rates
Nov 6 2007 // California’s Department of Insurance held hearings yesterday on Allstate Insurance Co.’s auto rates in San Francisco. The consumer group Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights argued that the company is...
State Auto Fills Key Spots in Sales, Development, Risk Management
Nov 5 2007 // The State Auto Insurance Cos. today announced the names of individuals that will fill key positions within the company. One of those named was industry veteran Clyde H. Fitch Jr. who will lead the company’s sales and...
N.J. court: UM covers drive-by shooting victim
Nov 4 2007 // A woman injured by a bullet from a drive-by shooting is entitled to recover under her uninsured motorist coverage, according to a New Jersey Appellate Division ruling, even though she was not in her car at the time of the...
News Currents
Nov 4 2007 // N.Y. department prevails in liquidation bureau audit New York state’s highest court has ruled that the state auditor does not have the authority to audit an obscure division of a state agency managing $3.3...
News Currents
Nov 4 2007 // Mass. caps car insurance hikes at 10%; smaller insurers eye 2.5% cut The first moves toward competitive rating for auto insurance in Massachusetts indicate that rates for drivers insured by insurers with small market share...
Declarations
Nov 4 2007 // Declarations Award reversed “Doctors, nurses, I’m suffocating. Please help me to be born. I want to play baseball. I want to hug my mother. I want to tell her that I love her. Help me.” — The Ohio...
National Insurance Crime Bureau: Vehicle Theft Drops Again in 2006
Nov 4 2007 // In 2006, nearly 1.2 million motor vehicles were reported stolen, which is 42,417 fewer than the number stolen in 2005 — representing the third year in a row that vehicle theft has declined. Even so, every 26.4 seconds a...
Oregon Motorcycle Fatalities Rise With Aging Riders
Nov 4 2007 // The motorcycle fatality rate in Oregon is climbing along with the size of bikes’ engines and the age of riders. The number of riders who are killed, as measured by deaths per 10,000 registered motorcycles and per...
Calif. Approves AAA’s 6.5% Auto Rate Reduction
Nov 4 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner along with officials from California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau (CSAA-IIB, or AAA of Northern California) in Sacramento and San Francisco announced...
Calif. Low Cost Auto Program Implemented
Nov 4 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced his final determination of need for the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance program in Alpine, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Inyo, Lassen, Mariposa, Modoc, Mono,...
10 Calif. DOI partners with CAL FIRE
Nov 4 2007 // Groups aim to prevent fire losses during height of wildfire season 10 Hawaii approves 19.3% workers’ comp decrease NCCI recommended 16.8 percent drop 10 Calif. approves AAA’s 6.5% auto rate reduction Carrier...
