Latest Auto Headlines
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Auto Insurance Affordability Improves in Most States: IRC
Aug 26 2015 // Personal auto insurance has become more affordable over time for all income groups, including low-to-moderate income groups, and in most states, according to a report from the Insurance Research Council (IRC). The industry...
Auto-Owners Insurance Acquires North-Carolina Based Atlantic Casualty
Aug 26 2015 // Strickland Insurance Group, Inc. has reached a definitive agreement for Atlantic Casualty Insurance Co., based in Goldsboro, N.C., to be acquired by Auto-Owners Insurance Group of Lansing, Mich. According to Bobby...
How to Know What Insurance Customers Want
Aug 25 2015 // What do today’s customers want from insurance providers? They want understanding, interaction, even a relationship. But they vary in when and how they wish to learn, interact and build a relationship. Insurance...
11 Georgia Residents Charged With Staging Car Accidents
Aug 25 2015 // On August 24, investigators from Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ Fraud division, with assistance from Bibb County Sherriff David Davis and his deputies, arrested six Macon, Ga., residents on charges of...
State Auto Realigns Units, Announces Leadership Hires, Changes
Aug 25 2015 // State Auto Financial Corp. today announced changes to the company’s leadership and a redefining of the company’s key business units. The changes were announced by Mike LaRocco, who took over as president and...
John Steinbeck, Boeing Drone, Jimi Hendrix, Ford Car: Intellectual Property News
Aug 21 2015 // Rightscorp Inc., the company that identifies infringers to copyright holders, said in a company filing that it now has contracts covering about 208,000 copyrights. That’s more than twice the 100,000 copyrights the...
Louisiana AG: Lawsuit Against State Farm to Be Heard in State Court
Aug 20 2015 // A federal judge has ruled that Louisiana Attorney General James D. “Buddy” Caldwell’s lawsuit against State Farm Auto Insurance over vehicle repair tactics will be heard in Louisiana state court, where it...
Car-Swallowing Sinkhole Fixed but Not Forgotten at Kentucky Corvette Museum
Aug 20 2015 // The car-swallowing hole has been fixed but not forgotten at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. Yellow tape now marks the boundaries of the cavity that became a sensation and put the museum on the map. And instead of...
Maine Highlights New State Law to Protect Rideshare Drivers, Passengers
Aug 19 2015 // Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa is highlighting a new Maine law, the Transportation Network Company Insurance Act, emphasizing that it will help to protect passengers, pedestrians and other motorists from losses...
Florida Man Gets 6 Years for Staging Car Crashes, Filing False Claims
Aug 19 2015 // A 50-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, man has been sentenced to six years in prison for staging car crashes. The Florida Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Guillermo de la Vega pleaded guilty earlier this month...
Blue River Underwriters Adds Experienced Leadership to Auto Dealers and USL&H Programs
Aug 19 2015 // Pictured left to right: Michael Mahoney and Susan Doyle Atlanta, GA, August 19 2015 — As part of the growth plans for its Auto Dealer and United States Longshoreman & Harbor Workers Act (USL&H) insurance...
Progressive Insurance CEO on 5 Macro Trends of Note
Aug 19 2015 // By his own admission Progressive Insurance CEO Glenn Renwick (and his company) may not be right about the impact certain macro trends will have on the insurance industry, but in his view “it’s important to have...
Thinking of Investing in a Classic Car? Think Again
Aug 17 2015 // A Ferrari 365 from 1972 was expected to fetch somewhere around $450,000 during the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Monterey, Calif. this weekend. When it was last bought in 2008, the car was worth...
Progressive CEO Renwick’s 5 Macro Trends of Note
Aug 17 2015 // By his own admission Progressive Insurance CEO Glenn Renwick (and his company) may not be right about the impact certain macro trends will have on the insurance industry, but in his view “it’s important to have...
Missouri, Illinois Jeep Owners Sue Fiat Chrysler Over Hacking
Aug 17 2015 // Car owners in Belleville, Ill., and eastern Missouri have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler and a dashboard computer manufacturer after two hackers used a laptop computer to take control of a Jeep...
Connecticut High Court Overturns $35M Auto-Repair Award
Aug 17 2015 // The Connecticut Supreme Court on July 13 unanimously overturned nearly $35 million in damages against the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. The Supreme Court said the lower court had incorrectly concluded that the Hartford...
U.S. Safety Board Criticizes Emergency Response in Tracy Morgan Crash
Aug 14 2015 // Federal safety officials who reviewed a highway crash in New Jersey that badly injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed a friend were sharply critical of the emergency response to it and are urging the state to establish...
Luxury Car Hacking Risk Widespread; Evidence Suppressed: Researchers
Aug 14 2015 // Thousands of cars from a host of manufacturers have spent years at risk of electronic car- hacking, according to expert research that Volkswagen has spent two years trying to suppress in the courts. “Keyless”...
Liberty Mutual Had a ‘Messy’ Second Quarter
Aug 13 2015 // “Things got a bit messy in the second quarter.” That’s how David Long, chairman and CEO of Liberty Mutual Holding Co., summarized his firm’s second quarter results, which saw a 36 percent decline in...
Crime Investigators Warn on ‘Mystery’ Devices Used in Car Break-Ins
Aug 13 2015 // Law enforcement officials and theft investigators are concerned that criminals may be getting their hands on high-tech electronic devices that can be used to break into vehicles. Also, they warn, these devices could be...
