Latest Auto Headlines
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Mar 19 2006 // Berkshire’s Buffett still high on insurance despite catastrophe risk Gen Re misfortunes overcome by Geico’s stellar performance, Buffett says Warren E. Buffett, the billionaire chairman of giant Berkshire...
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Mar 19 2006 // The Antifraud Task Force cited the need for a uniform database that would allow state authorities to track vehicles damaged by floods. Federal Bureau of Investigation targeting insurance fraud Agent reports to insurance...
With eye on federal monies, more states adopting primary seat belt laws
Mar 19 2006 // Seventeen-year-old Brittney Hudson wasn’t wearing her seat belt when it mattered most, the moment her 2004 Toyota Celica rolled over along a rural stretch in western Colorado and ejected her from the vehicle. The...
The Hartford Lowers Utah Auto Rates
Mar 17 2006 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, Conn., is lowering prices for many Utah drivers under its Dimensions personal auto insurance program, which is available through the company’s network of...
Calif. Man Arrested for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Mar 17 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that Sacramento resident Wayne Allen Sorenson, 35, has been arrested on workers’ compensation insurance fraud charges after an investigation by the...
Sacramento Man Allegedly Submits Fraudulent Documents To Support of Auto Claim
Mar 17 2006 // Sacramento, Calif., resident John M. Ford, 33, has been arrested on insurance fraud charges after an investigation by the state Department of Insurance’s (CDI) Fraud Division revealed Ford allegedly submitted altered...
Maine Panel Endorses Mandatory Sentences for Repeat Bad Drivers
Mar 16 2006 // A proposal to curb Maine’s worst drivers moved forward this week in the Maine Legislature as a committee gave its solid endorsement to “Tina’s Law,” which is named for a woman killed in an accident...
Calif. Truck Driver Pulled Over for Falsifying Insurance Claim
Mar 16 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi reported the arrest of Jesus Lerma, 51, from Riverside, after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division revealed that it was not him,...
Insurers Hit Mass. Bill Directing Anti-Fraud Savings Refunds
Mar 15 2006 // Some Massachusetts politicians want to make sure that good drivers in communities that crackdown on auto insurance fraud reap the savings. But insurers contend that an overhaul of the entire auto insurance system, rather...
Calif. Law Office Manager Sent to Prison in Large-Scale Auto Fraud
Mar 15 2006 // A California man, who with his brother managed a law office reportedly involved in a large-scale auto insurance fraud ring, was sent to state prison and ordered to make restitution of $1.5 million, the Los Angeles County...
UPDATE: Insurers Tally Storm Damage to Auto, Property in Midwest
Mar 14 2006 // Insurance companies in the Midwest are beginning to tally claims connected to hundreds of tornadoes and severe storms that hit a five state region in the Midwest late Saturday and early Sunday. Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,...
Fresno, Calif., Qualifies for State’s Low-Cost Auto Insurance Program
Mar 14 2006 // Insurance Commissioner Garamendi has announced that the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance program will launch in Fresno County on April 1, bringing an opportunity for eligible low income good drivers to get...
Colorado Emergency Medical Payments Coverage Bill Killed in Committee
Mar 13 2006 // Legislation forcing Colorado drivers to purchase additional emergency medical insurance coverage as part of their auto insurance policies was defeated in the state’s Senate Appropriations Committee by a vote of...
Abram Interstate Offers New Program for Garage Insurance
Mar 13 2006 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering a new program for garage insurance in California and Arizona. The targeted classes are: new and used car dealers, private passenger auto repair...
S&P Bulletin Recognizes AXA’s Auto Policy Securitization
Mar 10 2006 // The London office of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued a statement indicating that it will “recognize a capital relief in its capital adequacy model for AXA Group (core insurance operating...
N.C. Schedules June Auto Insurance Rate Hearing
Mar 10 2006 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long has announced a hearing on auto insurance rates will be held in Raleigh in June and recently requested rate increases will be denied until after the hearings. This...
Insurance Crime Bureau Lists Top 10 Cities for Staged Accident Scams
Mar 10 2006 // In a worst-case scenario of greed-driven criminal activity, Waurd Demolaire, 25, of Brooklyn, New York, was convicted Feb. 16 by a Queens County jury of killing a 71-year-old grandmother in 2003. Demolaire intentionally...
With Eye on Federal Monies, More States Adopting Primary Seat Belt Laws
Mar 9 2006 // Seventeen-year-old Brittney Hudson wasn’t wearing her seat belt when it mattered most, the moment her 2004 Toyota Celica rolled over along a rural stretch in western Colorado and ejected her from the vehicle. The...
Auto, Homeowners Coverage for Police, Firefighters Offers Unique Benefits
Mar 8 2006 // St. Louis, Mo.-based Stuckey and Company unveiled a new a homeowners and auto insurance program designed exclusively for police and firefighters. “We believe that police and firefighters are deserving of special...
Four Riverside, Calif. Residents Arrested for Alleged Fradulent Auto Theft Claim
Mar 7 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrests of three Riverside, Calif., residents on charges that they allegedly filed a fraudulent auto theft claim on a car that was later found in an orange...
