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Tesla Driver: Autopilot System Didn’t Cause Minnesota Crash
Jul 17 2017 // The driver of a Tesla vehicle involved in a crash in Minnesota on July 16 has denied that its Autopilot system caused the incident, according to an email released by the automaker on Monday. The Kandiyohi County...
FCC Expands Bandwith for Radar Used in Collision Avoidance Systems
Jul 14 2017 // The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved allocating a larger consolidated block of spectrum for use by motor vehicle and aircraft radar systems to help avoid crashes. The FCC first approved 1 GHz of...
Kentucky Fines Car Plastic Maker Montaplast $21K Over 2 Worker Deaths
Jul 13 2017 // A Kentucky county’s largest private employer has been fined $21,000 following the deaths of two employees in unrelated accidents last October. The State Journal obtained files through an open-records request that...
Silicon Valley Fund Has $120M to Spend on Transportation Tech Including Insurance
Jul 13 2017 // Autotech Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, said it had raised $120 million from automotive companies and financial investors for a fund that will invest in startups working on transportation services and...
Nonstandard Auto Insurance Market Continues on Downward Path: A.M. Best
Jul 13 2017 // Loss ratios and operating ratios for the U.S. private passenger nonstandard auto insurance market fell to their worst levels in a decade, according to a report from A.M. Best. The results for the population of insurers...
How Insurers Can Tap Valuable Revenue Stream Using Their ‘Data Exhaust’
Jul 11 2017 // The chief executive officer of Quandl is on a mission to let insurance companies know that their data is valuable and professional investors will pay them for it. But a lot of insurers are oblivious to that...
Does Consumer Watchdog Founder Want Asimov-like Rules for Robot Cars?
Jul 10 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv A virtual grin arose on the face of Harvey Rosenfield with the mention of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. The mention was made during a phone call, but the overwhelming...
South Carolina Sets Insurer Deadline Related to New Moped Safety Law
Jul 10 2017 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has set a deadline for auto insurers in the state to meet the requirements of recently passed moped safety legislation. The new moped law, which took effect July 1, amends South...
Michigan Court Sides with Westfield Insurance in ‘Employee/Contractor’ Case
Jul 10 2017 // The Michigan Court of Appeals has reversed the ruling of a trial court in a case involving whether a commercial insurer or a personal insurer is responsible for paying no-fault personal injury protection benefits when a...
Truck Speeding Fix Among Safety Rules Halted by Trump Anti-Regulation Order
Jul 7 2017 // Years of pleas from parents whose son was killed by a speeding tractor-trailer, buy-in from some truckers and the promise of fewer highway deaths convinced U.S. officials in September to propose requiring speed-limiting...
Startup Auto Insurer Root Expands by 2 States, Pairs with Lyft on Rental Coverage
Jul 6 2017 // Startup telematics-based auto insurer Root is now offering rental coverage in partnership with ridesharing firm Lyft. For policyholders with short-term needs for alternate transportation after an incident, Root will now...
Q&A: How Driverless Car Technology Could Impact New York and Other States
Jul 6 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in May signed a budget bill into law allowing self-driving and self-parking cars to be tested for one year on New York public highways. Prior to this law going...
Hike in Michigan Auto Catastrophic Claim Fee Now in Effect
Jul 5 2017 // The cost of owning a car or truck in Michigan has gone up by $10. Effective July 1, the Catastrophic Claims Association will now collect $170 per registered vehicle, up from $160. The insurance fund was created to...
Tennis Star Venus Williams Sued by Family of Florida Man Over Fatal Car Accident
Jul 5 2017 // Tennis star Venus Williams is being sued by the estate of a Florida man who died after a car crash police say she caused. An attorney representing the family of Jerome Barson, 78, filed the lawsuit Friday in Palm Beach...
Insurers Say They Need Access to Data from Automated Car Systems
Jun 30 2017 // Property/casualty insurance carriers want future federal rules governing driverless vehicles to guarantee insurers “reasonable” access to data from cars with automated driving systems. “The increasing...
Increase in P/C Insurers’ Losses in 2017 Will Again Be Driven by Auto: S&P
Jun 29 2017 // Private auto net incurred losses will increase by nearly 7 percent in 2017 to a new record of approximately $154 billion, reflecting elevated volume and costs of claims, according to a new S&P Global market...
Auto Insurance Market to Shrink by 70% by 2050: KPMG
Jun 29 2017 // Autonomous vehicle technology, a rise in on-demand transportation and a shifting of liability to manufacturers will shrink the auto insurance sector by more than 70 percent or $137 billion by 2050, according to updated...
House Panel Eyes Removing States’ Bumps in Road for Driverless Vehicles
Jun 28 2017 // Republicans and Democrats in Congress sparred on Tuesday over U.S. states setting rules for testing and deployment of self-driving cars and a proposal to allow automakers and technology companies to bypass existing...
How States Rate in Preventing Home, Auto, Work Accidents
Jun 28 2017 // No state goes far enough to protect its residents from leading causes of preventable deaths and injuries – commonly known as “accidents” – on the road, in homes and communities and at work, according to the...
Zurich Acquires UK Online Rental Car Insurance Provider, Halo
Jun 28 2017 // Zurich, together with its travel insurance unit Cover-More, has completed the acquisition of Halo, a specialist, UK-based online rental car insurance platform. Financial details of the transaction were not...
