Latest Auto Headlines
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Colorado ends legislative session; industry pleased tort auto system remains
May 21 2007 // The Colorado Legislature wrapped up its regular session on May 4, with fairly positive results for the insurance industry and consumers. The auto insurance system will remain a tort system, instead of reverting back to a...
Legislators aim to crack down on fraud
May 21 2007 // For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion. California Capones Modern-day...
People
May 21 2007 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy named Senior Vice President Brad Van Stavern to lead the new property/casualty practice in its Austin office. Van Stavern brings experience in the health care industry, where he held positions...
British auto insurer survey targets women’s view of male drivers’ irritating habits
May 21 2007 // A survey from the United Kingdom’s Diamond, an automobile insurer that specializes in coverage for women drivers, reveals some of their male counterparts’ most irritating driving habits. While Diamond’s...
Colorado ends legislative session; industry pleased tort auto system remains
May 21 2007 // The Colorado Legislature wrapped up its regular session on May 4, with fairly positive results for the insurance industry and consumers. The auto insurance system will remain a tort system, instead of reverting back to a...
Legislators aim to crack down on fraud
May 21 2007 // For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion. California Capones Modern-day...
Bringing competition and choice to Mass. auto
May 21 2007 // The 400 insurers of the American Insurance Association have seen the favorable results for the public as well as insurers when states have worked to increase competition and relax unproductive regulatory restraints. Recent...
Mini’s and a Delorean Top UK’s Favorite Famous Car List
May 18 2007 //
Senate Panel Advances Vehicle Backover Safety Bill
May 18 2007 // New vehicles would need to offer more safety features to address backovers and other potentially devastating accidents involving children under legislation approved this week by a Senate committee. Automakers would be...
Aviva Launches Direct Auto in Poland
May 17 2007 // The UK’s Aviva Group announced that its Polish operation, Commercial Union Poland, will enter the country’s direct motor insurance market. Aviva noted that the “burgeoning growth in car ownership and the...
Texas Delivery Truck Driver Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 17 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Cecil R. Bryant of DeSoto, Texas, pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. A Dallas County court ordered Bryant to serve a five-year probated...
Arrowhead Launches Motorcycle Program in Texas
May 17 2007 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. announced it has launched a Texas motorcycle program with an admitted carrier rated “A-” by A.M. Best Company. The company said the program covers Harley’s, sport,...
Lawsuit Claims Paralysis Caused by Denial of Claim
May 15 2007 // A 39-year-old Washington woman paralyzed from injuries caused in a car crash sued her insurer for denying coverage for surgery doctors agree could have prevented her paralysis. Tara Sadler, a Yakima, Wash., resident and...
Texas Auto, Homeowners Rates Still Falling, Insurer Group Says
May 14 2007 // Data released from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) shows the state’s average automobile and homeowners rates continue to fall, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. The ICT says rates have been steadily...
Auto Safety Backfires at NASCAR, Says Professor
May 11 2007 // A West Virginia University professor who examined 21 years of NASCAR accident reports and made a comparison to introductions of safety requirements, has concluded that more safety regulations in the popular sport has led...
GMAC Insurance to Buy U.K. Auto Insurer Provident Financial
May 9 2007 // GMAC Insurance, the insurance business of GMAC Financial Services, has agreed to acquire Provident Insurance, the United Kingdom-based auto insurance division of Provident Financial PLC. The acquisition will complement...
State Auto Middle Market Entering Texas; Ladner Named VP
May 8 2007 // State Auto Insurance Companies announced that its State Auto Middle Market Insurance (SAMMI) unit is coming to Texas. Industry veteran Gerald F. Ladner will lead the group in the state as vice president of SAMMI’s...
Case Law Watch
May 7 2007 // Anti-assignment Clause Holloway v. Republic Indemnity Co. of America (Oregon, Nov. 16, 2006) Ruling: At issue on this appeal was whether an anti-assignment clause that provided that “[y]our rights or duties under...
Montana driver history, vehicle records online
May 7 2007 // Officials with the Montana’s Motor Vehicle Division are providing two online search services that will allow access to vehicle and driver history information online. The Vehicle Search Service allows people to...
STATE FARM TO REDUCE AUTO RATES 6 % IN ILL.
May 7 2007 // State Farm will reduce auto insurance rates an average of 6 percent in Illinois effective May 14, the company said in a statement this week. Premiums will dip by an average $40 a year statewide, though amounts will vary...
