Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio State Auto Adds New System to Benefit Agent Force
Jan 25 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Cos. have eliminated an automation roadblock for independent State Auto agencies using Applied Systems agency management systems. State Auto has implemented IVANS Transformation...
Kingsway Acquires St. Paul Travelers’ Non-Standard Auto Unit, Mendota
Jan 24 2007 // Canada’s Kingsway Financial Services, Inc. has agreed to acquire Mendota Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc. The transaction includes Mendota’s wholly owned...
Even Consumer Reports Fallible As Retraction on Car Seats Shows
Jan 23 2007 // Consumer Reports once mismeasured the ingredients in dog food. Just last year, it screwed up the depreciation rates of hybrid cars. But it’s rare for the trusted, independent Consumer Reports to go as wrong as it did...
Mass. Auto Insurer Tops in Spending on Beacon Hill Lobbyists
Jan 23 2007 // Lobbyists trying to influence Massachusetts legislation on Beacon Hill raked in a record $64.3 million in 2006, as they plied their trade on issues ranging from education and insurance to tobacco and cable television,...
MetLife Auto’s Mullaney Shifts to Institutional; Moore to Head Auto
Jan 19 2007 // William J. Mullaney has been named president of MetLife’s Institutional Business segment. Mullaney succeeds Leland C. Launer, Jr., who has decided to leave MetLife to pursue other opportunities. Mullaney most...
Washington Rep. Wants To Require Drivers to Purchase Vehicle Liability Insurance
Jan 15 2007 // Washington Rep. Dean Takko has introduced a House Bill 1046 that would make drivers show proof of financial responsibility or motor vehicle liability insurance. According to the bill, the department of vehicle licensing,...
Commerce to Continue 5% AAA Mass. Auto Discount
Jan 15 2007 // The Commerce Insurance Co. has filed with the Massachusetts Division of Insurance to continue its five percent auto insurance rate discount for Amercian Automobile Association members in Massachusetts. If approved by the...
State Farm to Lower Texas Auto Rates
Jan 12 2007 // State Farm announced plans to lower its overall auto insurance rates in Texas. The change, which represents a savings of nearly $104 million annually to State Farm’s Texas auto insurance customers, will be effective...
Ohio State Auto Joins Agents’ Branding Program
Jan 11 2007 // The State Auto Insurance Companies are among the first group of carriers to join the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents’ branding program, “Local Agents Serving Main Street America SM.”...
Oregon Proposal on Auto Insurance Surcharge Losing Support
Jan 11 2007 // With his proposed surcharge on auto insurance going nowhere fast, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is pressing state lawmakers to find another way to fund 139 additional state troopers so the state can have 24-hour patrol...
Progressive’s Drive Enters Mass. Commercial Auto Market
Jan 10 2007 // Drive Commercial Auto, part of The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, announced plans to offer commercial auto insurance to Massachusetts business owners available exclusively through independent agents. With its...
AIX Group Unveils Program for Auto Physical Damage Cover for Trucking
Jan 10 2007 // Windsor, Conn.-based AIX Group Inc. announced a new program to provide automobile physical damage coverage to commercial trucking operations. This program will be targeting operations with above average loss experience and...
Report: Nearly 20% of Customers Consider Switching Insurers After Collision
Jan 9 2007 // Nearly one out of every five customers considers switching insurance companies after experiencing the collision claim process, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Collision Repair Satisfaction...
New Mexico Insurance Division Offers Auto Premium Comparision Guide
Jan 9 2007 // New Mexico drivers now can compare personal auto insurance rates on the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission’s Web site: www.nmprc.state.nm.us. The guide to compare premiums can be accessed by clicking on the...
Drive Insurance from Progressive lowers auto rates in Colorado
Jan 8 2007 // The Drive Group of Progressive Insurance Companies is lowering auto insurance premiums in Colorado by an average of 5.2 percent for new customers effective Sept. 6 and existing customers effective Oct. 16, the company...
Mexican truck travel still limited
Jan 8 2007 // Mexican trucker Brigido Moctezuma lives in a city just south of Mexico’s border with Texas, far from talks on whether he’ll be able to drive his loads of vehicle air bags all the way to assembly lines in...
8 Drive Insurance from Progressive lowers Colo. auto rates
Jan 7 2007 // Tort system helping to reduce costs 8 Gov.-elects appoint insurance department heads Colorado picks Mayor Morrison, Idaho picks Rep. Deal 8 Calif. workers’ comp reforms working Yet outgoing commissioner says still...
Purdue Study: Drivers’ Age and Gender Major Factors in Severity of Accident Injuries
Jan 5 2007 // Understanding the differences among drivers in different gender and age categories is crucial to preventing serious injuries, according to researchers in a new study showing stark statistical differences in...
State Farm Drops Auto, Homeowners Rates Nearly $500 Million in Calif.
Jan 4 2007 // State Farm and California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that the company’s nearly 3 million auto and 1.4 million homeowners, renters and condo owners in California will see about $500 million in...
Report: Traffic Accidents’ Share of Workers’ Comp Losses Grows
Jan 3 2007 // Work-related injuries due to traffic accidents are relatively costly and are on the increase as a growing share of workers compensation loss costs. According to the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc., the...
