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#1 China’s EV Boom Saddles its Auto Insurers With Chronic Losses
Sep 22 2025 // China’s giant electric vehicle insurance market is flailing. Losses are piling up, as companies’ risk models haven’t kept up with changes in vehicle economics and driver behaviors. The country now has...
#2 Is a Mass. Auto Insurer Allowed to Refuse to Offer Coverage Due to Flood Warning?
Dec 10 2025 // Can an auto insurer in Massachusetts refuse to offer collision and comprehensive coverages during a flood warning despite a state law that makes it mandatory to offer such coverages? The industry and public are on the road...
#3 What Progressive and GEICO Q3 Results Reveal About Auto Insurance Profit, Growth
Nov 10 2025 // Analysts’ projections of slower growth and smaller underwriting margins ahead for personal auto insurers started to play out ever so slightly in third-quarter results of two giant auto insurers this week. Both...
#4 Why Maine Opposes New Limits on Truck Driver’s Licenses for Legal Immigrants
Dec 3 2025 // The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) has joined the opposition to a federal rule that limits which legal immigrants can obtain a commercial driver’s license (CDL) or permit. The state says that if the new...
#5 AM Best: Commercial Auto Liability Drags Down Segment and it Could Get Worse
Sep 22 2025 // Commercial auto has been a dark cloud hanging over the U.S. property/casualty industry for more than a dozen years—and things are getting worse. For the 14th consecutive year, commercial auto has posted an underwriting...
#6 UK Car Theft Crisis Pits Manufacturers Against High-Tech Gangs
Jun 20 2025 // To the untrained eye, the red shipping container at Felixstowe looked no different to the thousands of others stacked up at Britain’s busiest seaport. Destined for Africa, its contents were listed as “household...
#7 Accusations Fly About Immigration Status of Truck Driver in Fatal Florida Accident
Aug 21 2025 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday that a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida was in the country illegally, fueling a verbal tussle with California Gov....
#8 Texas Adds ID Restrictions on Vehicle Registrations, Renewals
Dec 1 2025 // The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is implementing more stringent photo identification requirements for all vehicle registrations and renewals in an abrupt shift that could shut out undocumented residents from legally...
#9 Transportation Department Tightens Noncitizen Truck Driver Rules
Sep 29 2025 // The U.S. Transportation Department tightened commercial driver’s license requirements for noncitizens on Sept. 26 after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers. The new...
#10 US Electric Car Uptake Will Slow Further on Trump Policies
Sep 9 2025 // Already sluggish adoption of electric vehicles in the US will slow even further after a $7,500 tax credit for EV buyers expires later this month. Battery-powered cars will account for half of US auto sales in 2039, five...
#11 Trump Outlines Plan to Unwind Biden-Era Car Mileage Mandates
Dec 4 2025 // President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s plan to relax stringent Biden-era fuel efficiency standards, casting the change as a way to lower consumer costs. “Today my administration is taking historic...
#12 US Tariffs on Heavy Truck Imports to Begin Nov. 1, Says Trump
Oct 7 2025 // President Donald Trump said 25% duties on medium- and heavy-duty trucks would begin Nov. 1, the latest expansion of his tariff regime aimed at protecting domestic industries. The proposal has been subject to an intense...
#13 Staff Cuts Help Fuel GEICO Profit; Auto Insurer Not ‘Pouring Money’ Into AI
May 5 2025 // He’s not yet ready to declare “mission accomplished,” but Ajit Jain, vice chair of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, said the conglomerate’s personal auto insurer, GEICO, is no longer...
#14 Gun-Owning New Hampshire Teen Sues School Officials Who Searched His Truck
Oct 20 2025 // A New Hampshire teenager sued his former high school principal and others Thursday, alleging they illegally searched his truck based solely on his status as a gun owner. Jack Harrington, 18, graduated from...
#15 Trump Threatens to Withhold $75M From Pennsylvania Over Immigrant Truck Drivers
Nov 24 2025 // The Trump administration has threatened to withhold nearly $75 million in funding if Pennsylvania does not immediately revoke what the administration claims are illegally issued commercial driver’s licenses to...
#16 India Native Truck Driver in Fatal Florida Crash Pleads Not Guilty
Oct 1 2025 // A commercial truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people on a Florida highway last month waived his first appearance hearing Monday and entered a not guilty plea, court records show. Harjinder...
#17 Lemonade Posts Another Quarterly Loss but Car Growth Continues
Aug 5 2025 // Insurtech Lemonade reported a second quarter 2025 net loss of about $44 million compared with a loss of $57.2 million a year ago during the same time. Though still a loss, it was a 23% improvement from the prior year,...
#18 Dangerous Car Chase Went 170 Miles Through 4 California Counties
Nov 14 2025 // In Southern California, where police pursuits are common, this was one for the books. A suspect in an allegedly stolen minivan led authorities on a two-hour, 170-mile (274-kilometer) chase through four counties Monday that...
#19 Rental Car Firm Not Responsible for Driver With Ignition Lock Restriction on License
Jul 25 2025 // A car rental company in Connecticut is under no obligation to confirm whether a customer’s driver’s license is subject to any restrictions; rather it is only required to inspect the physical license card to...
#20 Truck Driver Acquitted in Bikers’ Deaths Sentenced for Prior Impaired Driving Charge
Apr 17 2025 // A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday for driving under the influence in Connecticut a month before the deadly crash...
