Latest Auto Headlines
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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...
Wal-Mart Says Tracy Morgan Is to Blame for Injuries in Highway Crash
Sep 29 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is to blame for injuries he sustained in June highway crash because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Morgan, who was critically injured when the limousine bus he was...
A Day In Nation’s Busiest Fire Station in Ft. Lauderdale
Sep 26 2014 // It’s 8:15 p.m. and the four-member crew of Fort Lauderdale Fire Department Engine 8 has just made its way back to the firehouse after two back-to-back calls — one where an SUV plowed into a store and another where...
Top 30 Private Auto Insurers: SNL
Sep 26 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...
ABI Faults UK’s CMA for Failing to Address Replacement Car Costs
Sep 26 2014 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has cited the Competition & Markets Authority’s (CMA) failure to tackle the excessive charges made by credit hire firms for replacement vehicles as “bad news for...
Oklahoma Man Drives Truck into Lake, Gets Charged with Insurance Fraud
Sep 23 2014 // Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has filed insurance fraud charges against Brian Troutman for falsely submitting a claim for the loss of his vehicle. According to the AG’s office, a fraud unit investigation...
