Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
N.J. Auto Reforms Continue Drive Forward
Mar 3 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke announced this week that the competitive auto insurance marketplace that is emerging in New Jersey reportedly as a result of Governor McGreevey’s reforms is...
FastSnap.com announces new photo service designed to assist Auto Claims Departments
Mar 3 2004 // Fastsnap.com, an online digital photo service provider for the P&C Industry, is pleased to announce a new service targeted at Claims Divisions. This new service will provide timely and accurate digital photos of...
Visa Expands Auto Rental Insurance Coverage
Mar 2 2004 // Visa USA has begun providing car rental insurance to all of its credit card holders, effective March 1. The company, based in San Francisco, said the insurance — also known as collision damage waiver coverage —...
Progressive Offers Commercial Auto in Dakotas
Mar 1 2004 // The Mayfield Village, Ohio-based Progressive group of insurance companies, the country’s number one monoline commercial auto insurer, has announced plans to start selling its commercial auto product in both North and...
Fitch: Competition May Brake Auto Rate Increases
Mar 1 2004 // The U.S. auto insurance sector may be approaching a yield sign of increased competition after cruising through favorable pricing conditions for the last three years, according to a special report by Fitch Ratings. Though...
Midsize Cars Earn Poor or Marginal Ratings in Low Speed Bumper Crash Tests
Mar 1 2004 // Five of six new midsize cars earned poor or marginal ratings in low-speed crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Only one model, the Mitsubishi Galant, earned the second highest rating of...
Auto, HO Rate Changes in the Works in Pennsylvania
Mar 1 2004 // The industry’s Insurance Services Office, Inc. has asked the Pennsylvania Insurance Department to permit a loss cost decrease of 1.8% on all policies written on or after Dec. 1, 2004 for private passenger automobile...
ISO A-PLUS Delivers Vehicle-Registration Reports to Auto Insurers
Feb 27 2004 // Auto insurers are now able to receive accurate, comprehensive Vehicle-Registration Reports on their policyholders from Insurance Services Office, Inc.’s (ISO) A-PLUS – unit, making it easy to assess auto risks...
New Brunswick Insurers Plan to Lower Auto Rates
Feb 26 2004 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) has announced an action plan to bring premium rates down quickly throughout the province of New Brunswick. It’s being adopted in response to government pressure and public outcry...
N.Y. Gov. Pataki Announces $4.3 Million in Grants to Combat Auto Theft and Fraud
Feb 26 2004 // Governor George E. Pataki has announced $4.3 million in grants to 27 programs to reduce motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud across New York State. The funding will be distributed to programs that provide law...
Mountaineer State Faces Many of the Nation’s Same Issues
Feb 26 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...
North Carolina Commissioner Orders Hearing on 2004 Auto Rate Filing
Feb 25 2004 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long has ordered a hearing to discuss the insurance industry’s latest request for an increase in auto insurance rates. Long will preside over the hearing, called for July 26...
