Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NICB Report Shows Higher Risk for Vehicle Theft in Port and Border Communities
Jun 7 2000 // The NICB analysis reported that close to 450,000 cars and trucks were stolen countrywide in 1998 in metropolitan areas with ports or close to international borders. Each year more than 200,000 vehicles are exported...
Managed Auto Repair Seen as Best Hope for Salvaging Collision Repair Process
Jun 7 2000 // These problems, along with the prospect of huge profits, have given consolidators — repair shop aggregators — the impetus to overhaul the collision repair process through a managed auto repair initiative. The...
Repo Man Pays an Unwelcome Visit
May 29 2000 // Rickki Chantelle Saulsby of Citrus Heights was arrested and booked into Sacramento County Jail on two felony counts of insurance fraud. According to CDI fraud investigators, Saulsby submitted a claim to 21st Century...
Moratoriums Add Up in Calif.’s Nonstandard Market
May 29 2000 // Could it be that the California nonstandard auto market is hardening? Looking back to the beginning of the year, many companies lowered their personal auto rates in California in an effort to gain market share, but...
Volunteer Workforce,Lifeblood of the Nonprofits, Need Special Coverages
May 29 2000 // Volunteers-without them, most nonprofit organizations would not exist. They are the common soil in which most mainstream nonprofits are planted, providing services in countless different areas. Yet although...
State Farm Funds Study on Child Car Seat/Safety
May 24 2000 // State Farm Insurance Companies has shared claims data with The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on approximately 200 children of policyholders who agreed to participate in a multi-year, collaborative research...
Royal & SunAlliance U.S. Nonstandard Auto Expanding Internet Site
May 23 2000 // The personal insurance division of Royal & SunAlliance USA has successfully launched Orion AutoLink, its web-based agency interface for nonstandard auto insurance products, in 23 states where those products, marketed...
InsWeb is “Forbes Favorite” Insurance Web Site
May 19 2000 // Redwood City, Calif.-based InsWeb is the most valuable site at which to shop for auto insurance, according to Forbes. The magazine’s Summer 2000, “Best of the Web” issue lists InsWeb as the “Forbes...
E-commerce, New Auto Policy Rules Top Arizona’s 2000 Legislative Session
May 16 2000 // Highlights of the otherwise quiet 2000 legislative session for insurers in Arizona included the passage of House Bill 2069 and Senate Bill 1130–two laws that will help further online insurance sales and modify auto...
Direct Line’s Online Auto Insurance A Success
May 9 2000 // U.K. automobile insurer, Direct Line, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBOS), announced a startling success for its 9 month old online automobile insurance venture , www.directline.com. with about a 40 percent...
St. Paul Completes Sale of Nonstandard Auto
May 3 2000 // The St. Paul Companies has completed the sale of its nonstandard auto insurance business to The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Prudential purchased the nonstandard auto insurance business marketed under the...
On the Road: Insuring RVs
May 1 2000 // It’s not just your grandparents heading down the road in a Winnebago these days. As the population of RV owners grows, so does the market and the profit margins for insurers. In the 1950s, those silver, bullet-shaped...
Snowmobiling:The New Craze Offers a Mountain of Opportunities
May 1 2000 // The snowmobile: fun and safe family transport vehicle, or the motorcycle of the Great White Outback? It all depends on whom you talk to. Snowmobilers in Canada and the United States spend more than $9 billion on their...
Rock Star Singing the Blues
May 1 2000 // Larry Ollison, a former member of the rock band The Platters, pled guilty of one felony count of insurance fraud. According to CDI fraud investigators, the 50-year-old Stockton man filed roughly 22 false claims with...
Removed All But the ‘Muffler’
May 1 2000 // Sylvester Chavez, 22, and Shelly Hayworth, 45, both of Fresno, were each charged with one felony count of insurance fraud after investigators learned that they had allegedly conspired to obtain insurance benefits for...
State Farm Auto Gets ‘AAA’
May 1 2000 // Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. (DCR) assigned an initial claims paying ability rating of “AAA” to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm Auto). The rating outlook is stable. The rating...
State Farm Exits InsWeb’s Marketplace
May 1 2000 // Effective May 1, State Farm will no longer participate in Redwood City, Calif.-based InsWeb Corp.’s marketplace for auto, term life, homeowners, condominium and renters insurance. According to Dick Luedke, public...
Booze and Boating Can Be A Risky, Sometimes Deadly, Mix
May 1 2000 // Many states apply the same drunk driving standards to boat operators as they do to motor vehicle operators. Iowa is the latest state to enact this type of legislation with a new intoxication standard that sets a maximum...
Men are from Mars, women from Venus, independent agents from Mercury
May 1 2000 // Bud Wilson, past president of the Independent Insurance Agents of America, has said to agents: “Choose your companies wisely.” Interpreted broadly, the argument supports any company providing competitive prices...
Low-Cost Auto Bill Dies in Connecticut
Apr 28 2000 // The Connecticut Senate Appropriations Committee has killed a bill that would have established a low-cost auto insurance policy for low-income drivers. The bill was based on similar “mini-policy” systems that...
