Latest Auto Headlines
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Penn. Man Accused of Buying Auto Insurance From Scene of Car Wreck
Mar 6 2015 // Authorities say a Pennsylvania man called an insurance company from a crash scene to buy auto coverage and later claimed his wreck happened after he got the policy. The Altoona Mirror reports that the insurance fraud...
Law Enforcement Initially Suspicious of North Carolina Gold Heist
Mar 6 2015 // The crew of a truck carrying a load of gold bars had just pulled off the interstate in North Carolina when, the two men told police, a seemingly ordinary episode of carsickness turned into a multimillion-dollar...
XL Launches Primary Auto Product Line, Taps Miller to Lead
Mar 5 2015 // XL Group’s excess & surplus (E&S) insurance is adding primary auto capabilities to its product line and has added Andrew Miller as underwriting manager to lead this business. According to John Goodloe,...
5 Members of Alleged Ohio Auto Insurance Fraud Ring Indicted
Mar 5 2015 // Five Cincinnati-area residents have been indicted on multiple counts of alleged insurance fraud for filing a significant number of false insurance claims in 2014 totaling approximately $85,000, the Ohio Department of...
Armed Robbers Nab $4.8M in Gold Bars off Armored Truck on North Carolina Highway
Mar 5 2015 // Shortly after dusk on Sunday along a lonely stretch of Interstate 95, armed robbers hijacked an armored truck, tied up the two guards and disappeared into the night with 275 pounds of gold bars. The guards working for...
Google Compare for Car Insurance Has Arrived
Mar 5 2015 // Google Compare for car insurance was introduced on Thursday in California, “with more states to follow,” the tech giant said. “Google Compare for car insurance provides a seamless, intuitive experience...
Michigan Man Sentenced for Selling Fake Auto Insurance
Mar 2 2015 // A 64-year-old Michigan man has been sentenced to one year in jail for selling fake auto insurance certificates. Hakeem Sanusi of Eastpointe pleaded no contest to six counts of insurance fraud as a habitual offender. He was...
Senate Committee Backs Monetary Incentives for Auto Defect Whistleblowers
Mar 2 2015 // A measure that would offer financial incentives for auto industry employees to expose safety defects won unanimous backing from a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday. The vote by 13 Republican and Democratic members of the...
Florida Court: Proof Needed That Drivers Knew of Hit-and-Run to be Charged
Mar 2 2015 // Drivers in Florida can’t be prosecuted for leaving the scene of an accident unless there is proof they knew they were in a crash. The Florida Supreme Court unanimously agreed last week with a lower court’s...
Former Northern N.J. Mayor Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud Charge
Feb 26 2015 // A former northern New Jersey mayor has admitted making false statements to police and an insurance company in a bid to cover up a hit-and-run accident. Former Roselle Mayor Garrett Smith pleaded guilty Tuesday to insurance...
Car Cellphone Regulations Rejected by Arkansas House Committee
Feb 26 2015 // A dashboard video showing a state trooper narrowly avoiding a head-on collision with a driver who was using a cellphone wasn’t enough to sway an Arkansas House committee that tougher laws are needed. The Public...
Replacing Unsafe Train Crossings Deemed Too Expensive
Feb 26 2015 // The bullet train that will whisk passengers between San Francisco and Los Angeles at 200 miles per hour won’t pass through the kinds of intersections that have led to two major commuter-rail accidents this...
California Commuter Train Versus Truck Injures Dozens
Feb 25 2015 // Twenty-eight people were injured when a Southern California commuter train collided with a truck stuck on the tracks on Tuesday, toppling three rail cars. There were no deaths reported in the crash, which occurred at about...
Berkley: Google’s Entry Into Auto Insurance Should Frighten Agents
Feb 24 2015 // That Google is getting into auto insurance should have the voice in the head of every agent who sells personal auto coverage saying: “Be afraid, be very afraid.” OK, that’s not exactly how W.R. Berkley...
Conn. Senator Urges DOJ to Investigate Auto Insurers’ ‘Preferred’ Repair Shops
Feb 24 2015 // U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a recently aired CNN report’s allegation that auto insurers may be pressuring consumers to repair their vehicles at...
South Carolina City to Pay $700K to Family of Pregnant Woman Shot by Cop
Feb 24 2015 // The family of a pregnant woman shot and killed by a Woodruff police office will be given $700,000 to settle a lawsuit over the killing. Lacey Lamb’s family said the 28-year-old woman was trying to stop the car...
City’s Refusal to Pay for Sinkhole Damage Upsets Ohio Driver
Feb 24 2015 // A truck owner says the city of Dayton should compensate him for sinkhole damage that left his truck inoperable. The Dayton Daily News reports that 52-year-old Mike McDonald is infuriated that the city rejected his $10,000...
California Agents Asked to Inform Customers on Auto Financial Responsibility
Feb 23 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and state Sen. Ricardo Lara in February urged Californians to make sure they are meeting their obligation to carry minimum liability insurance coverage on their vehicles and...
Heading a National Ridesharing Outline a Political Gain for Jones?
Feb 23 2015 // A committee of regulators led by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is working on standards on ridesharing that departments of insurance in states across the U.S. can look to as an example. Whether the National...
Fraud Adds Up to 17% to Auto Insurance Injury Claims: IRC
Feb 23 2015 // A new study estimates that fraud and claim “build-up” add between $5.6 billion and $7.7 billion in excess payments to auto injury claims paid in the United States. The excess payments represented between 13...
