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10 Insurance Myths (Men Are More Likely Than Women to Believe 8 of Them)
Oct 21 2014 // Men may be more gullible when it comes to insurance myths than women but even women think a number of popular myths about insurance are true, according to a survey by online insurance seller insure.com. Insure.com said it...
Does Prop 103 Violate Itself?
Oct 20 2014 // The history of the American administrative state has been filled with attempts to introduce “rationality” and “discipline” to circumstances in which markets, left to their own devices, allegedly...
Top 30 Private Auto Insurers: SNL
Oct 20 2014 // CSAA Insurance Exchange, which sells private auto insurance to AAA members in about 25 states, experienced double-digit year-over-year growth in personal auto business, far outpacing other top writers in the second...
New Technology on Vehicles Is Working to Reduce Crashes
Oct 20 2014 // Autonomous or “driverless” cars generate a lot of media buzz because of the public’s fascination with new technology and what vehicles may be like in the future. Yet, there’s a revolution underway...
Large Agencies More Optimistic About Future Growth: Vertafore Study
Oct 17 2014 // Optimism over the future growth potential of independent agencies ties closely to the size of the independent agency, with larger agencies feeling more optimistic about future growth than their smaller counterparts,...
V3 Insurance Offers Enhanced Auto Dealers Coverage in Western States
Oct 17 2014 // V3 Insurance Partners LLC of Newtown, Pa. has launched the V3 Dealer V₃antage program for non-franchised auto, truck and RV dealers. The program features garage liability, garage keeper’s liability, dealer’s...
South African Insurers Urge Mandatory Auto Insurance
Oct 16 2014 // South African insurers have called on the government to start compulsory motor cover to reduce the cost to motorists and companies from the country’s millions of drivers taking to the roads without protection. In...
Texas Leads U.S. in Road Fatalities, Needs Transportation Funding
Oct 14 2014 // Gus Pando lost his mother last year in a crash at an intersection where a county road crossed four lanes of vehicles barreling by at 75 miles an hour. At the same Odessa, Texas, junction in August, a family friend was...
St. Paul Employee Who Hit Own Car Seeks Damages from City
Oct 10 2014 // A St. Paul, Minn., Parks and Recreation employee has filed a claim against the city for damages she caused to her personal car while driving a rented city van. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports Megan Campbell filed the...
Confie Seguros Acquires North Texas Auto Insurance Agency
Oct 9 2014 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance, announced it has acquired the assets of Carallo Insurance Group Inc., an auto insurance agency in Garland, Texas. Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Confie has...
Deer-Related Car Crashes Declined in Ohio in 2013
Oct 7 2014 // Ohio officials say the number of reported deer-related car crashes in the state decreased in 2013. The Ohio Department of Public Safety says about 20,200 deer-vehicle crashes were reported last year. That’s nearly...
Symposium Panelists Say New Car Technology May Not Lower Insurance Rates
Oct 6 2014 // More cars and trucks are being equipped with cameras, radar, automatic braking and other safety technology that help avoid accidents, but drivers may not see their insurance bills go down anytime soon, experts in the auto...
Auto Wrecks with 3 or More Fatalities Rise in Texas
Oct 6 2014 // The number of auto accidents involving three or more deaths has more than doubled in Texas since 2010, with more fatalities occurring along roads seeing increased traffic because of the oil and gas boom. An investigation...
Michigan Panel: Special Authority Needed to Target Car Insurance Fraud
Oct 6 2014 // Michigan should create a special authority devoted to targeting auto insurance fraud and require insurers to more frequently send electronic verification of drivers’ insurance to the state, a task force...
Burned Armpit Hair Caused Idaho Car Crash
Oct 6 2014 // A SUV full of teenagers crashed in Idaho in September after one of the passengers lit the driver’s armpit hair on fire with a lighter, authorities said. All five young people in the Ford Bronco were hurt in the crash...
Car Cellphone Ban Recommended by San Antonio
Oct 3 2014 // A San Antonio city council committee has decided to ban the use of hand-held devices in cars. The City Council’s Public Safety Committee moved Wednesday to put the ban before the council for a vote this month. The...
Ohio Supreme Court Says Ambiguity Determination Must Consider Context
Oct 2 2014 // The general rule holds that when a policy provision is susceptible to more than one interpretation courts should construe the ambiguity against the insurer and liberally in favor of the insured. This principle is often...
Cause of Oklahoma Truck-Bus Crash Still a Mystery
Oct 1 2014 // The softball coach who was driving a team bus smashed into by an errant truck did everything he could to save four players who died in the accident, a relative said, even as investigators tried to solve the mystery of why...
Wal-Mart Seeks to Settle Negligence Lawsuit by Tracy Morgan
Oct 1 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it wants to settle a negligence lawsuit by actor-comedian Tracy Morgan, a day after blaming the celebrity for injuries he sustained when his limousine bus was struck by a speeding company...
Truck Driver: Distraction a Factor in Fatal Oklahoma Crash
Sep 30 2014 // The driver of a tractor-trailer that crashed into a bus and killed four college students on Interstate 35 in southern Oklahoma told investigators he was distracted. Russell Staley, 53, of Saginaw, Texas, was traveling...
