Latest Auto Headlines
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Cell Phones and Commercial Auto Insurance: Leading by Example
Feb 11 2002 // If it seems like you’re seeing more drivers with phones stuck to their ears, it isn’t your imagination. There are more than 88 million cell phone users in this country —40,000 new subscribers every day—and...
CDI Releases New Auto Premium Comparison Survey
Feb 7 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced the latest edition of the Automobile Insurance Premium Comparison Survey on its web site at www.insurance.ca.gov. The new Automobile Insurance Premium Comparison...
Three Auto Insurance Bills Get to Colo. House Floor
Feb 6 2002 // Three bills designed to help clarify and simplify the auto insurance process in Colorado, including one that would reduce the number of required options in the no-fault law, have passed the House. National Association of...
Investigation Reveals Widespread Auto Fraud Continues in Calif.
Feb 4 2002 // A new investigation by the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) reveals widespread billing fraud and repair defects have continued across California, according to the Los Angeles Times. The 18-month investigation spawned last...
NAII Stresses Legal, Competitive Reasons for Use of Credit Information
Feb 4 2002 // Insurance scores provide companies an objective and unbiased underwriting tool, Sam Sorich, vice president and western regional manager of the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) explained last week during...
NAII States Ariz. Bill Would Benefit Rental Car Cos., Increase Other Auto Coverages
Jan 31 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers, rental car companies would be the only beneficiaries of a bill to shift insurance responsibility now moving through the Arizona Legislature. Under current...
Calif. Man Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Jan 30 2002 // Investigators from the Fresno Regional Office of the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division, served a warrant for arrest on Ali Saeed Echtibi at his residence in Fresno for his alleged involvement in a...
Direct Line to Acquire RSA’s Italian Auto Business
Jan 30 2002 // U.K. auto insurer Direct Line, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has agreed to acquire the Italian auto insurance operations of Royal & Sun Alliance for £12 million ($17 million). Direct Line, which takes...
If at first you don’t succeed…
Jan 28 2002 // Terry Thomas, 31, of Downey, Calif., was sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court to five years in state prison on one count of insurance fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. Thomas’ conviction...
PIFC WANTS HELMET LAW TO REMAIN
Jan 28 2002 // A bill that would permit motorcyclists 18 and older to discard their helmets will do nothing but increase the number of motorcycle-related injury accidents and deaths in California, according to the Personal Insurance...
20 Arrested as NY Auto Fraud Unit Breaks Up Another Insurance Scam
Jan 25 2002 // Six weeks after arresting 112 persons on various charges of insurance fraud, (See IJ Website Dec. 6) New York’s Auto Insurance Fraud Unit has struck again with the arrest of 20 persons accused of being part of...
Auto Dealers Become First to Self-Insure Under Calif. DIR Plan
Jan 21 2002 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that it had recently approved a plan allowing some private sector groups to self-insure workers’ compensation liabilities. California Motor Car...
Highway and Auto Safety Advocates Urge Favorable Report on SB8
Jan 21 2002 // Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) is urging the Transportation and Interstate Cooperation Committee to favorably report SB8, which permits a local authority to make the determination of whether to use...
NYSID’s Frauds Bureau Posts Record Year
Jan 17 2002 // The New York State Insurance Department’s Frauds Bureau (FB) set new records last year for the investigation and apprehension of persons suspected of committing insurance fraud in the State. I investigations resulted...
Insurance Auto Auctions Appoints New CIO
Jan 17 2002 // Illinois-based Insurance Auto Auctions Inc., which provides automotive salvage and claims processing services across the U.S., appointed Edward N. Fares as the company’s new chief information officer (CIO). Insurance...
MetLife Auto and Home Joins Trusted Choice Branding Initiative
Jan 16 2002 // MetLife Auto & Home has signed on as a company partner of Trusted ChoiceSM the new consumer marketing brand created by the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA), announced IIAA CEO Robert A. Rusbuldt...
Hartford Sues NJ Auto Fraud Ring
Jan 15 2002 // The Hartford has filed a civil action in Morris County State Court against 27 New Jersey residents, charging that they conspired to stage motor vehicle accidents and fake injuries to generate hundreds of thousands of...
PIFC Expects an Increase in Death and Injuries If Present Helmet Law Repealed
Jan 15 2002 // A bill that would permit motorcyclists who are 18 and older to discard their helmets will do nothing but increase the number of motorcycle injury accidents and deaths in California, according to the Personal Insurance...
TDI Proposes Mile-Based Auto Insurance Rules
Jan 14 2002 // In late December 2001, the Texas Department of Insurance proposed rules that would allow auto insurers to voluntarily offer mile-based insurance rates to those consumers who drive less often than others. The proposed...
Automobile Dealer Surety Bonds: What Constitutes A Breach of Condition’
Jan 14 2002 // Many surety bonds are tailored for particular relationships or statutory requirements—one such example is the motor vehicle dealers bond required by Section 503.033 of the Texas Transportation Code. While there are few...
