Latest Auto Headlines
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South Carolina Liquidating Commercial Auto Insurer First Keystone
Oct 29 2014 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance last week declared an insurer that specialized in providing commercial auto insurance to be insolvent and the insurer is now being liquidated. The First Keystone Risk Retention...
Obama Reportedly Searching for New Auto Safety Chief
Oct 28 2014 // The acting chief of the NHTSA, the top U.S. automotive safety regulator, is unlikely to be nominated for the job and an active search is under way to fill the position, a source familiar with the matter said on...
Lawsuits Commence Against Takata, Auto Makers Over Air Bags
Oct 28 2014 // Takata Corp. and carmakers that install the company’s air bags were sued by U.S. drivers over claims they were duped into buying unsafe vehicles following the recall of almost 8 million cars from 10...
Arson Suspected in Dubuque, Iowa, Vehicle Fires
Oct 27 2014 // Dubuque, Iowa, police and fire department officials say they are investigating two vehicle fires as arson. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reportsthat the fires were reported before dawn on Oct. 23 in a parking lot. Dubuque...
Fireman: Trucker ‘Zombie’-Like After Fatal Bus Crash
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer. Staley had been heading north on...
Florida Is Hot Spot for Luxury Car Theft
Oct 23 2014 // Drivers of luxury vehicles in Florida should watch out. Their cars are the least likely in the U.S. to be returned if stolen. More than 25 percent of luxury cars taken from the beginning of 2010 through 2013 were never...
LexisNexis and Jing You Plan China Joint Venture for Auto Carriers
Oct 23 2014 // LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a division of Reed Elsevier, plans to create a joint venture with Jing You, a private supplier of data, software and services to the insurance industry in the People’s Republic of China....
Mercury Agrees to Acquire Workmen’s Auto Insurance in California
Oct 23 2014 // Mercury General Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase of Workmen’s Auto Insurance Co. Both insurers are based in Los Angeles, Calif. The purchase price is $8 million and the transaction is...
NHTSA Apologizes for Troubled Website, Bulletin on Airbag Defects
Oct 23 2014 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration botched its effort to inform the public about a potentially lethal air-bag defect, directing 8 million consumers to an inoperable website and leaving millions of others...
Mass. DOI Issues Bulletin on Policy Term Disclosure Requirements
Oct 22 2014 // The Massachusetts Division of Insurance issued a bulletin spelling out new disclosure requirements for insurance premium quotes for private passenger motor vehicle and personal property insurance. The Bulletin 2014-08,...
Air Bag Recalls Renew Doubts About Carmakers’ Responses to Defects
Oct 21 2014 // A deepening crisis involving deadly air bags is shaking confidence in the ability of automakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. to ensure the safety of millions of U.S. drivers. Toyota is advising U.S....
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...
