Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Progressive Adds Business Auto in N.J.
Dec 12 2005 // The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies is now offering commercial auto insurance to New Jersey business owners. This follows the Oct. 3, 2005 announcement that the Drive Insurance from Progressive and Progressive...
Proformance Insurance, N.J. State Police Note Auto Fraud Case
Dec 8 2005 // In a joint investigation with the New Jersey State Police, the Proformance Insurance Company, a provider of specialized property/casualty insurance products in New Jersey, revealed that one of its auto policyholders had...
Insurer Told to Pay $8 Million to Missouri Couple Acquitted of Fraud
Dec 7 2005 // State Farm Insurance has been ordered to pay more than $8 million to a tow truck driver and his sister-in-law who were acquitted of insurance fraud after being accused of faking the theft of a vehicle. Jackson County...
Willis Buys N.Y.-Based Armored Car Insurance Specialty Broker
Dec 6 2005 // Willis Group Holdings Limited, the global insurance broker, announced today the stock acquisition of International Insurance Brokers, Inc. Located in Staten Island, N.Y., International Insurance Brokers is a specialized...
Drivers Living Near Restaurants Pose Higher Risk Than Church Neighbors
Dec 6 2005 // Drivers who live within a mile of a church are far less likely to have a car accident than drivers who live more than a mile from a church. But those who live within one mile of a restaurant face a significantly greater...
Minn. High Court Rules Drunken Passenger Doesn’t Justify Search
Dec 5 2005 // The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer wasn’t justified in searching the vehicle of a Winona woman because the passenger in her car was drunk. “To allow a vehicle search solely because an...
Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market
Dec 5 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
AUTO REFORM DIFFERENCES:
Dec 5 2005 // Gov. Mitt Romney and Attorney General Tom Reilly sparred over auto insurance, with Reilly saying the governor’s reform plan would create chaos and Romney accusing Reilly of failing as a leader because he had no plan...
LEADER IN DEER CRASHES:
Dec 5 2005 // Pennsylvania motorists are reporting more deer-vehicle collisions than any other state. More than 150 people are killed each year in the estimated 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions that occur across the country, State...
Smaller and Regional Programs: Proven Exercises
Dec 5 2005 // Here are a few smaller and regional programs that are meeting specific needs Pumped for profit Robin C. Brennan knows fuel dealers. She’s been handling their insurance needs since 1998. Brennan is a vice president...
