Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Miami Clinic Owner, Four Others Arrested in Auto Fraud Scheme
Dec 19 2003 // A Miami clinic owner and four others are in jail on charges of reportedly staging an accident after the clinic owner crashed his HUMVEE into two other cars in a scheme to collect insurance payments, according to...
Insurance Media Association Elects van Aartrijk President; Angelone and DeMartine Also Named to Offices
Dec 19 2003 // Peter van Aartrijk Jr., CIC, a marketing communications professional with 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, has been elected the first president of the Insurance Media Association. Walter Podgurski,...
Buttafuoco Among 11 Charged With Auto Repair Fraud
Dec 19 2003 // Nine owners or employees of area auto repair shops were arrested and charged today with auto insurance fraud following a lengthy investigation by a multi-agency task force headed by the District Attorney’s Bureau of...
PIANJ Statement Stresses Consumers’ Right to Choose Auto Insurance
Dec 18 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc., in a written statement to New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI), supported the department’s goal to educate consumers regarding their...
IBC Selects “Top Ten” Canadian Insurance Frauds of 2003
Dec 18 2003 // Insurance fraud isn’t a uniquely American phenomenon, as the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s recent announcement shows all too clearly. Our neigbors north of the border have also chosen their “top ten”...
Mutual of Enumclaw Offers Internet Auto Endorsement Processing through IBQ Systems
Dec 17 2003 // Wash.-based Mutual of Enumclaw announced that agents can process auto endorsements via the Internet using the IBQ Systems platform. The company’s agents currently use IBQ’s platform for rating and applying for...
London American Offers More Commerical Auto Markets
Dec 16 2003 // London American General Agency Inc. continues its growth as they obtain more commercial auto markets for contractors and more. London American has up to four markets for commercial auto. Classes include: contractors,...
Shepard Extends State Auto Offer Until Feb. 13, 2004
Dec 16 2003 // Gregory M. Shepard today announced a second extension of the expiration date of the tender offer made by himself and his wholly owned subsidiary, STFC Acquisition Corp., for 8 million shares of Columbus, Ohio-based insurer...
Industry People Making Moves in 2003
Dec 15 2003 // As you will probably notice from this list, it is not scientific, preferential, etc. We retraced news coverage of this past year and tried to come to an agreement on who made headlines. We likely left off a few...
Canada’s P/C Insurers Report Weaker Q3 Results from Auto Losses
Dec 15 2003 // According to a bulletin from the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the country’s P/C insurers posted generally weaker financial results in the third quarter of 2003, due largely to a downward trend in the auto insurance...
ALLSTATE TO REFUND $3.44M:
Dec 15 2003 // According to the Texas Attorney General’s Office, Allstate and its affiliated insurance companies agreed to a settlement that will result in refunds of $3.44 million to more than 23,000 Texas auto policyholders who...
Industry People Making Moves in 2003
Dec 15 2003 // As you will probably notice from this list, it is not scientific, preferential, etc. We retraced news coverage of this past year and tried to come to an agreement on who made headlines. We likely left off a few...
NAII Says N.J. Auto Market Emerging from ’30 Years of Mismanagement’
Dec 11 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin, which indicates that New Jersey’s auto insurance market, which it described as “once the nation’s poster child for the dangers of...
Proformance to Acquire MetLife Auto & Home’s Agency Produced N.J. Business
Dec 9 2003 // New Jersey’s Proformance Insurance Company announced that it will acquire the independent insurance agency-produced New Jersey auto and homeowners insurance business of MetLife Auto & Home for $10 million in...
N.J. DOBI Issues Advisory on Incorrect Auto Ratings
Dec 9 2003 // Holly C. Bakke, New Jersey’s Commissioner of Banking and Insurance has issued an advisory bulletin too “all private passenger automobile insurers authorized or admitted in this state,” concerning...
NAII, Alliance, AIA Unanimous in Opposing N.J. “Verbal Threshold” Bill
Dec 5 2003 // Representatives of the National Association of Independent Insurers, the Alliance of American Insurers and the American Insurance Association voiced unanimous opposition to changes in New Jersey’s “verbal...
Allstate to Refund $3.44 Million to Texas Auto Policyholders
Dec 4 2003 // The Texas Attorney General’s Office announced that Allstate and its affiliated insurance companies have agreed to a settlement that will result in refunds of $3.44 million to more than 23,000 Texas auto policyholders...
Motor Vehicle Service Agreement Entities Told to Cease Operations in Fla.
Dec 3 2003 // Two entities that were reportedly engaged in the motor vehicle service agreement business have been ordered to immediately cease operations, in Florida, and a licensed agent has been ordered to cease business related to...
State Auto Financial Corrects Dividend Record Date
Dec 3 2003 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurer State Auto Financial Corp. announced that the record date for its quarterly cash dividend of 4 cents per share, payable Dec. 31, 2003, is hereby corrected to be payable to shareholders of...
IBC Says Partnerships Are Key in Fight Against Auto Theft
Dec 1 2003 // Insurance Bureau of Canada recently joined with Toronto Police in announcing the initial results from Project Heat (Help Eliminate Auto Theft). In the first three weeks of the latest round of Project Heat, Toronto Police...
