Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Thieves can steal more than holiday spirit
Nov 29 2006 // Unitrin Specialty investigator reminds shoppers to use common sense The gifts you’ve spent hours shopping for could be gone in under 15 seconds if you’re in too much of a rush this holiday season. You can make...
Motor Vehicle Theft Declines in California
Nov 29 2006 // California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has released the Department of Justice’s “Crime in 2006, January Through June” preliminary report showing property crime decreased by 2.8 percent compared to the...
Countrywide Launches Auto Insurance Product in Colo., Ill., Ind., Nev.
Nov 28 2006 // Countrywide Financial Corp. announced that Countrywide Insurance Group’s auto insurance product is now available to consumers in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana and Nevada. The product was first introduced in Arizona in...
State Farm Contributes $1.5M to Texas Vehicle Registration Initiative
Nov 27 2006 // State Farm and the State Farm Agents of Texas are contributing $1.5 million through in-kind services to support “Put Texas in your corner,” the Texas Department of Transportation’s initiative to remind...
AAA Chicago Projects Busy Thanksgiving Travel Weekend
Nov 22 2006 // Higher prices for hotel rooms, rental cars and airfares will not keep families home this Thanksgiving. AAA Chicago estimates 38.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday, a 2.7 percent...
Md. Court Upholds Fellow Employee Exclusion in Commercial Auto Policy
Nov 22 2006 // The Maryland Court of Appeals has held that a fellow-employee exclusion in a commercial automobile liability policy is valid and enforceable above the minimum statutory liability limits. The court found that a business...
13 Vehicles Pass Insurance Institute Crash-Tests to Make List of Safest Vehicles
Nov 22 2006 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced 13 vehicles that earned its Top Safety Pick awards for 2007. Winners include four cars, seven SUVs, and two minivans. Three of the 13 winning vehicles for 2007 are from...
Colorado Expands Guide To Compare Auto Rates
Nov 22 2006 // Colorado Insurance Commissioner David Rivera announced that the Division of Insurance’s interactive online service to compare auto insurance premiums has expanded from a five city/zip code area within Colorado to 21...
Idaho Resident Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
Nov 22 2006 // A Pocatello, Idaho, man received a one to seven year prison sentence for insurance fraud, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said. Joshua K. Smith, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of insurance fraud and was sentenced in...
Arrowhead Offers Personal Auto, Renters Program in Mich.
Nov 21 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency’s, Inc. Non-Standard Auto and Basic Renters program’s, both with “A” rated admitted carriers, is now available to Michigan producers, according to a company...
Delaware Approves Home, Auto Insurance Rate Reductions
Nov 20 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has approved insurance rate cuts for State Farm homeowner policies as well as for private passenger auto policies from three AIG companies, from Harleysville Insurance and from...
Power shift in the political landscape
Nov 20 2006 // Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic candidates wrest control of both houses of Congress, gain a majority of the governorships and take control...
Lame duck Romney team pushes ahead with high risk plan change
Nov 20 2006 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler said she intends to finish what she started three years ago in trying to refashion the state’s high risk auto insurance system, despite urgings by some that she...
Power shift in the political landscape
Nov 20 2006 // Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic candidates wrest control of both houses of Congress, gain a majority of the governorships and take control...
Power shift in the political landscape
Nov 20 2006 // Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic candidates wrest control of both houses of Congress, gain a majority of the governorships and take control...
Power shift in the political landscape
Nov 20 2006 // Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic candidates wrest control of both houses of Congress, gain a majority of the governorships and take control...
Power shift in the political landscape
Nov 20 2006 // Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic candidates wrest control of both houses of Congress, gain a majority of the governorships and take control...
Truckers seek to slow big-rigs by proposing max speed on truck
Nov 20 2006 // A lobbying group for the largest U.S. trucking companies is seeking a 68-mile-per-hour speed limit for newly manufactured big-rigs to reduce crashes and save lives. The goal is to cut “the number and severity of...
One in five truck drivers reports falling asleep at the wheel
Nov 20 2006 // When a tractor-trailer overturned on a Maryland road, it spilled lumber onto the roadway below and killed a motorist. The same week in a nearby Virginia community, a jury awarded $17 million to the family of a 17 year-old...
Lame duck Romney team pushes ahead with high risk plan change
Nov 19 2006 // Opponents of the ARP have urged Bowler to leave the decision of what to do about the high risk system to the incoming Patrick administration. News Currents Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler said she...
