Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NAII Supports Mass. House Bills on Auto Rates
Oct 15 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin noting that two redrafted bills in the Massachusetts Lower House, would change the effective date of the state’s Insurance Commissioner’s...
Calif. Trio Pleads Guilty to Auto Fraud Scheme
Oct 14 2003 // Three men pleaded guilty to multiple felony counts on Sept. 10 involving an automobile insurance fraud scam that was exposed during a three-year joint investigation by CDI, California Highway Patrol, National Insurance...
Court of Appeals Largely Upholds N.C. Commissioner’s Order to Reduce Auto Rates
Oct 13 2003 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long last week received word that the North Carolina Court of Appeals has largely upheld his order in the 2001 auto insurance rate case to force insurance companies to drop rates...
PIANJ Optimistic on Auto Reform Bill’s Effects
Oct 13 2003 // Judging from recent reports from the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc., the state’s auto reform bill, passed earlier this year, is beginning to have some welcome and quite positive effects in...
Safeco Plans Use of New Business Automation
Oct 10 2003 // In a major enhancement to its point-of-sale automation, Seattle-based Safeco has unveiled plans for a single, unified web-based technology platform that will reportedly make it faster and easier for independent...
N.J. Mother, Son Sentenced for Auto Fraud & Official Bribery Scam
Oct 9 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an East Orange mother and son were sentenced for their reported participation in an organized scheme to illegally obtain valid police accident reports in order to...
Montemayor Adopts Auto Rating Symbols
Oct 9 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that Insurance Commissioner José Montemayor has adopted Commissioner’s Order No. 03-0942, containing new and/or adjusted 2002 and 2003 model private passenger automobile...
ISO Claims Database Offers Access to Motor Vehicle Reports
Oct 8 2003 // Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) has expanded its claims database — ISO ClaimSearch — to provide access to countrywide Motor Vehicle Reports (MVRs) for enhanced claims analyses and investigations capability. ISO...
NACE 2003 CONFERENCE OFFERS 45+ EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS
Oct 6 2003 // The Inter-national Autobody Congress & Exposition (NACE) 2003 Conference will include 45+ educational sessions covering shop management, general interest, small shop, vehicle repair, lifestyle, jobber and insurance...
Calif. Law Expanding Auto Insurance Discounts Takes Effect
Oct 6 2003 // California Governor Gray Davis recently signed a bill supported by the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) that allows insurance companies to grant a rating discount on private passenger automobile...
AAI Reports Concerns with Implementation of Some N.J. Auto Regulations
Oct 6 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers submitted comments to New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance expressing support for the Department’s efforts to move quickly in implementing the auto insurance reform...
Fla. Announces New Strategy for Fighting Auto Fraud
Oct 6 2003 // Continuing efforts to put an end to reported spiraling auto insurance premiums by combating fraud, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher recently joined Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle...
Uninsured Vehicle Study Sneaks Into Transportation Bill
Oct 6 2003 // Contributed by the Automobile Insurance Agents of Texas The Automobile Insurance Agents of Texas (AIAT), which has long been a proponent of devising legislation that attempts to decrease the number of uninsured motorists...
American International Technology Grows Electronic Capabilities for Auto Liability Insurance
Oct 1 2003 // American International Technology Enterprises, Inc. (doing business as AIG Technologies), a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), announced that its Web-based Automobile Liability Insurance Reporting...
Tailgating the Most Common Driving Error, Study Finds
Sep 30 2003 // Smith System, which provides professional driver training, announced the results of an analysis that found inadequate following distance to be the most common driving error. The Smith System study, culled from 50 years of...
NYC Auto Fraud Bust Nets 51
Sep 30 2003 // Authorities announced the arrest of 51 individuals as part of the takedown of a no-fault insurance fraud ring in New York City last weekend. All are accused of taking part in a scheme that netted millions of dollars. The...
Calif. Legislative Session Adjourns With New Privacy Law, Work Comp Reform
Sep 29 2003 // New financial privacy requirements and legislation aimed at cutting workers’ compensation costs are the two most significant public policy measures that impacted the property/casualty insurance industry during the...
PIANJ Letter Addresses Concerns on Auto Policy Regulations
Sep 25 2003 // Professional Insurance Association of New Jersey president John D’Agostino, Jr., CIC, has addressed a letter to Douglas A. Wheeler, Assistant Commissioner of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for the New Jersey...
NYSID Announces Arrest of Queen’s Man for Selling Fraudulent Auto ID Cards
Sep 24 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that Vincent Morciglio, 49, of Jamaica was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of forgery and two counts of criminal possession of a forged...
AMERICAN FAMILY INS. AUTO RATES TO INCREASE IN NEV
Sep 22 2003 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has approved the request of American Family Mutual Insurance Company (American Family) for an overall statewide increase of 4.4 percent for private passenger automobile...
