Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Auto Auctions Opens El Paso Facility
Jul 6 2004 // Insurance Auto Auctions Inc., a provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services in the United States, announced the opening of a new greenfield facility in El Paso, Texas. This new 8-acre facility will...
Legal Liability for Truck Cargo
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. broadened and simplified its carrier-for-hire cargo coverage, which addresses a trucker’s legal liability when carrying cargo under contract. Key...
Legal Liability for Truck Cargo
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. broadened and simplified its carrier-for-hire cargo coverage, which addresses a trucker’s legal liability when carrying cargo under contract. Key...
Oklahoma’s 2004 Legislative Session Marked by Successes and Frustration
Jul 5 2004 // The 2004 session of the Oklahoma legislature was unusual. It was marked by disappointment of missing an opportunity to address much needed reforms in tort and workers’ compensation issues and triumph regarding...
Commercial Auto/Truck Physical Damage
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Safety Net Insurance Marketing Corporation is offering a new commercial auto/truck physical damage and high value, substandard private passenger physical damage program. Dollars: Up to $1 million...
Motorcycle
Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. has a new motorcycle program. Dollars: Limits of $100,000/$300,000/ $50,000. Deductibles from $250 to $1,000. Minimum premium of $75, plus a policy fee. Carrier:...
Passing in the Slow Lane
Jul 5 2004 // A number of years ago, very good friends of mine rallied their neighbors in an effort to improve their elementary school. With two young children of their own, they had a vested interest in a better school. But they and...
Mass. Seeks to Shake Image as Regulatory Outcast
Jul 5 2004 // Massachusetts officials, moving deliberately to change the image of the state as a regulatory nightmare for insurance companies and to re-make its systems to look more like those found elsewhere, are making progress even...
MASS. BIKERS LOSE AUTO CASE:
Jul 5 2004 // Motorcycle drivers upset with the way insurance rates are set in Massachusetts lost a court bid to force the state to reconsider the fairness of its rating system. The Supreme Judicial Court dismissed the complaint by the...
Fireman’s Fund Threatens Exit from Mass. Auto Market
Jul 1 2004 // The Fireman’s Fund Insurance Companies has given notice to Massachusetts officials that it intends to withdraw from the state’s personal automobile insurance market on Dec. 31, 2004, because of continuing...
N.J. Family, N.Y. Man Brake for Auto Fraud
Jun 30 2004 // New Jersey Director of Division of Criminal Justice Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has obtained an indictment charging four individuals with...
New Mass. Auto Plan On Way to Commissioner; New Safe Driver Plan Questioned
Jun 29 2004 // The board that oversees the Massachusetts auto insurance high risk facility, Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers (CAR), voted 11-2 in favor of final rules to convert the plan to an assigned risk plan on June 29. The CAR governing...
N.J. Commissioner: Auto Insurance Market Recovering; Drivers Reap Benefits
Jun 28 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke predicted recently that positive financial results for a majority of companies in the auto insurance marketplace will continue to produce returns for New Jersey...
State Auto Wins ACORD Awards
Jun 24 2004 // For the third consecutive year, and the fourth time in seven years, the Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Co. took top honors at the annual ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development)...
PCI Urges R.I. Gov. to Halt Rental Car Amendment
Jun 24 2004 // A trade association representing most of Rhode Island’s largest auto insurers is urging Gov. Donald Carcieri to veto a recently passed bill because of an amendment that would impact rentals of replacement vehicles...
Ga. A.G. Reports Convictions in Motor Vehicle Records ‘Eraser’ Scheme
Jun 23 2004 // Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker announced the successful prosecution of a Department of Motor Vehicle Safety employee and her accomplice in a scheme centered on “fixing” motor vehicle records for...
PCI: Tenn. Auto Parts Regulation Would Make Consumers ‘Double Losers’
Jun 22 2004 // According to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), a Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance proposal requiring written permission from auto policyholders or third-party claimants to use...
N.J. MAY ADJUST MOTOR VEHICLE FINES:
Jun 21 2004 // New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreavey’s Task Force on Motor Vehicle Fines has called for adjustments to the penalties for not having proper insurance under the current Auto Insurance Reform Law. After the auto reform...
Regional Focus
Jun 21 2004 // Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once famously said, “All politics is local.” The same could be said for the insurance industry—insurance coverage is definitely local. In addition, there...
GM TRUCKS TOP TEXAS’ STOLEN VEHICLES LIST:
Jun 21 2004 // Stressing that auto theft worries increase during summer, the Texas Department of Public Safety released its annual list of the most stolen vehicles. General Motors pickups top the list. Auto thieves don’t take a...
