Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
PIANJ Input on Auto Insurance Purchasing Planner
Mar 11 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has issued a bulletin commending the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance’s initiative to educate consumers through its new Auto Insurance Purchasing...
Big “I” Markets Adds National Interstate Recreational Vehicle Program to Product Line
Mar 10 2004 // Big “I” Markets, the online market-access program developed by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA), announced that National Interstate Insurance Company is providing Big...
NYSID Announces 100-Count Auto Fraud Indictment
Mar 10 2004 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer aren’t resting on last year’s achievements in fighting fraud (See IJ Website Mar.9). Yesterday they announced the...
Calif. Speier Bill Would Close Loopholes in Proof of Auto Insurance Law
Mar 10 2004 // Senator Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) has introduced SB 1500, a bill to close loopholes in the state’s proof of auto insurance law. “People can buy auto insurance, get their vehicle registration...
Specialized Truck Equipment
Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: With its newly enhanced STEP SPICE policy endorsement, The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. unveiled new additions to its multi-line program for manufacturers, distributors, installers and...
Package and Commercial Auto
Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....
Specialized Truck Equipment
Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: With its newly enhanced STEP SPICE policy endorsement, the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. unveiled new additions to its multiline program for manufacturers, distributors, installers and repairers...
Package and Commercial Auto
Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....
MICH. LAUNCHES AUTO RATE INQUIRY:
Mar 8 2004 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) Commissioner Linda A. Watters has launched the second phase of her investigation into rising home and auto rates in Michigan. Commissioner Watters issued a letter...
Specialized Truck Equipment
Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: With its newly enhanced STEP SPICE policy endorsement, The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. unveiled new additions to its multi-line program for manufacturers, distributors, installers and...
Package and Commercial Auto
Mar 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO AUTO RATE FILING:
Mar 8 2004 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Long recently announced the receipt of the 2004 auto insurance rate filing from the North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB). The NCRB, an independent organization representing all auto insurance...
Mountaineer State Faces Many of the Nation’s Same Issues
Mar 8 2004 // While not the biggest state in the southeastern region, West Virginia like all other states has its insurance issues. Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast...
Texas Auto Assigned Risk Plan Names New Officers
Mar 5 2004 // The Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) announced the election of officers for 2004-2005. The Governing Committee elected Jon Smanz, director, shared markets governance for Allstate insurance Company in...
Calif. Attorney Sentenced in Alleged Auto Fraud Ring
Mar 5 2004 // A five-year undercover investigation into a staged auto collision ring came to a conclusion Friday with the sentencing of the final attorney implicated by the joint efforts of the California Department of Insurance (CDI)...
Allmerica CEO: Mass. Personal Lines Capacity Woes Could Spread to Other Lines
Mar 4 2004 // Massachusetts has a capacity crisis not just an auto market crisis which is being played out most vividly on Cape Cod and could spill over into other lines if more and bigger companies are not attracted to the state,...
New Jersey to Unveil Online Auto Insurance Planner
Mar 4 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke will unveil the Auto Insurance Purchasing Planner today. This Internet-based program is designed to help New Jersey drivers understand the insurance coverage...
ABRA Auto Body & Glass Opens Denver-Area Repair Center
Mar 4 2004 // ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a Minneapolis-based damaged vehicle repair company, announced the opening of their ninth repair center in Colorado. The facility, located at 9035 South Woodman Way in Parker, CO, will increase...
CinFin Senior VP in Critical Condition After Auto Accident
Mar 3 2004 // Kenneth S. Miller, a senior vice president for insurer Cincinnati Financial Corp., is hospitalized in critical condition after an auto accident Sunday in Fairfield, according to a statement released by the...
Mass. Auto Insurer Hanover Sues Over High Risk ‘Conspiracy’
Mar 3 2004 // The lengths to which an auto insurer in Massachusetts may go to circumvent the state’s unique high risk pool has been brought to light by an unusual lawsuit filed by one insurer against one of its...
