Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ill. Insurance Dept. Offers Advice for Holiday Hosts, Travelers
Dec 20 2005 // If you’re hosting friends and family this holiday season, it might pay to check your insurance first, according to the Illinois Department of Insurance. Better to know in advance what is covered and what isn’t...
Why Mass. Should Keep Its Current Auto System with State-Set Rates
Dec 19 2005 // The State’s Independent Agents Explain Why They Oppose a Switch to Competitive Rating I agree with Gov. Romney that improving road designs, dangerous intersections and combating fraud will go a long way to lowering...
Federal Law Puts Brakes on Vicarious Liability for Auto Rental Firms
Dec 19 2005 // Recent N.Y. $21 Million Award May Be Last of Its Kind in the Nation A New York court’s $21 million award last month to a young Wall Street trader paralyzed in an accident involving a Budget Rent-a-Car vehicle may be...
N.Y. Lowers Assigned Risk Rates
Dec 19 2005 // The New York State Insurance Department has approved an average 5.6 percent decrease in auto insurance premiums for drivers in New York’s Automobile Insurance Plan (AIP), also known as the assigned risk plan. The new...
AUTO PRODUCER REASSIGNMENTS DELAYED:
Dec 19 2005 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has asked that a plan for reassignment of auto insurance producers doing business with the state’s residual market, Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers, be delayed in...
GOV. URGED TO VETO FLOODED VEHICLES BILL
Dec 19 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of Amer-ica called upon Louisiana Gov. Kath-leen Blanco to veto a bill that would require all vehicles that are declared “total” losses as a result of recent flooding...
NAMIC Supports Arizona Legislative Study of Auto Theft
Dec 19 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), Indianapolis, said it will support a legislative study on auto theft in Arizona when the bill is heard in the state’s legislature. A proposed bill has...
Jan. 1 Auto Rate Hike
Dec 19 2005 // Thousands of drivers in Mississippi will see their auto insurance rates increase dramatically after Jan. 1, when the minimum required coverage will double, increasing costs, even for those who have less than the minimum...
Federal Law Drives Away Vicarious Liability for Auto Rental Firms
Dec 19 2005 // Recent N.Y. $21 Million Jury Award May Be Last of Its Kind in the Nation A New York court’s $21 million award last month to a young Wall Street trader paralyzed in an accident involving a Budget Rent-a-Car vehicle...
Federal Law Puts Brakes on Vicarious Liability for Auto Rental Firms
Dec 18 2005 // A New York court’s $21 million award last month to a young Wall Street trader paralyzed in an accident involving a Budget Rent-a-Car vehicle may be one of the last of its kind. Inserted among the thousands of road...
News Briefs
Dec 18 2005 // Louisiana Gov. Urged to Veto Flooded Vehicles Bill The Property Casualty Insurers Association of Amer-ica called upon Louisiana Gov. Kath-leen Blanco to veto a bill that would require all vehicles that are declared...
Federal Law Drives Away Vicarious Liability for Auto Rental Firms
Dec 18 2005 // A New York court’s $21 million award last month to a young Wall Street trader paralyzed in an accident involving a Budget Rent-a-Car vehicle may be one of the last of its kind. Inserted among the thousands of road...
News Briefs
Dec 18 2005 // Massachusetts Auto Producer Reassignments Delayed: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has asked that a plan for reassignment of auto insurance producers doing business with the state’s residual...
Why Mass. Should Keep Its Current Auto System with State-Set Rates
Dec 18 2005 // I agree with Gov. Romney that improving road designs, dangerous intersections and combating fraud will go a long way to lowering automobile insurance rates in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. But I disagree with his...
Truck Driver Killed in Utah Train-Trash Truck Collision
Dec 16 2005 // An Amtrak train collided with a semitrailer in southeastern Utah, killing the truck driver, injuring several Amtrak passengers and derailing the front wheel on the train’s lead engine, authorities said. The...
N.Y. Auto Theft Ring Gets Parked; 37 Individuals Arrested to Date
Dec 16 2005 // New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Kings Country District Attorney Charles Hynes and New York State Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills have reported the takedown of “Operation Brownsville...
CDI Fraud Division Aids Bust of 23 Individuals in Auto Theft Ring
Dec 15 2005 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) reported its major role in the bust of a major auto theft ring that could potentially have generated more than $420,000 in insurance fraud. The CDI Fraud Division was reportedly...
Calif. Latin American Agents Association Names Auto Market of the Year
Dec 15 2005 // The California-based Latin American Agents Association has awarded Birmingham, Ala.-based Infinity Property and Casualty Corp. its “Auto Market of the Year.” This was the second time in five years that Infinity...
Mass. Drivers Get Early Christmas Gift: An 8.7% Rate Cut
Dec 15 2005 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne M. Bowler announced that 2006 private passenger auto insurance rates will be cut an average 8.7% staewide next year. The new rate takes effect January 1 and translates to an...
Court Upholds W. Va. Woman’s Coverage, Despite Bounced Check
Dec 12 2005 // A West Virginia Supreme Court ruling upholding coverage for a woman who wrote a bad check to start an auto insurance policy, saying she deserves coverage after she was involved in an accident, has Charleston insurance...
