Latest Auto Headlines
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Motorcycle Deaths, Injuries Spike in Minnesota
Jun 16 2014 // The number of motorcycle fatalities and injuries has spiked in Minnesota. The Department of Public Safety says five people on motorcycles recently were killed and 28 others were injured. The Star Tribune says four of the...
On the Road: Are America’s Guardrails Dangerous?
Jun 13 2014 // Before dawn on Feb. 23, Darius Williams ran his Nissan Sentra off a North Carolina interstate at 80 miles per hour. A length of guardrail pierced his door, according to the police report, driving the 24-year-old’s...
U.K. Insurers Should Cap Replacement-Car Costs, Watchdog Says
Jun 12 2014 // U.K. insurers should have a cap placed on the cost of replacement cars for drivers at fault for accidents to help reduce insurance premiums, the country’s Competition and Markets Authority said in a draft opinion...
California Regulators Want Insurers to Speed Up Ridesharing Policies
Jun 11 2014 // The California Public Utilities Commission wants the insurance industry to get off its duff and start creating some products to offer to ridesharing drivers. A proposal issued by CPUC on Tuesday further defines ridesharing...
Wal-Mart Trucker Had Not Slept in 24 Hours Before N.J. Morgan Crash: Complaint
Jun 10 2014 // A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. truck driver went at least 24 hours without sleep before his tractor-trailer crashed into a limousine, critically injuring actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and killing another entertainer, according to a...
Minnesota Sees Spike in Motorcycle Deaths, Injuries
Jun 9 2014 // The number of motorcycle fatalities and injuries have spiked in Minnesota. The Department of Public Safety says five people on motorcycles were killed last week and 28 others have been injured. The Star Tribune says four...
Nationwide to Re-Enter New Jersey’s Auto Insurance Market
Jun 6 2014 // New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski said today Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company has been approved to write auto insurance in New Jersey, and the company will begin offering auto...
London Taxis Try to Cut-Off Silicon Valley’s Uber Car Service
Jun 6 2014 // They have been the kings of the British capital’s roads for over a century but now the often opinionated drivers of London’s iconic black taxi cabs are battling a high-technology rival that threatens their...
Drive Underway to Increase Truckers’ Minimum Insurance Limits
Jun 5 2014 // Truckers would be required to buy higher insurance limits under a government proposal, although how much higher is not yet known. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) concluded in a report to Congress...
Some Trucking Firms Want Congress to Ease Safety Limit on Truckers’ Hours
Jun 5 2014 // The 70-hour cap on a U.S. trucker’s workweek has a chance of being eased by Congress, undoing the result of a 15-year effort to reduce highway fatalities caused by drowsy long-haul drivers. The main federal...
West Virginia Motor Vehicle Law Changes Go Into Effect This Week
Jun 4 2014 // The West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says some changes in laws will affect motorists starting this week. One new law allows DUI offenders to get on the ignition interlock program immediately if they do not...
Lockton Increases Auto Racing Presence with Buy of UK’s MIS Motorsport
Jun 4 2014 // Lockton announced that it has acquired the specialist motorsport insurance broker, MIS Motorsport, based in the UK in Guiseley, near Leeds. Lockton and MIS Motorsport completed the transaction on June 1st, 2014 after...
Used Car Dealer Seeks Damages For Inventory of ‘Defective’ GM Vehicles
Jun 3 2014 // An independent used-car dealer in Arkansas is seeking compensation from General Motors Co. for being saddled with “highly dangerous vehicles” that include cars not yet recalled over ignition-switch...
Penn. Advises Consumers to Check Insurance Before Using Rideshare Services
Jun 3 2014 // As the vacation travel season gets underway, Pennsylvania’s insurance department is reminding consumers to understand their personal auto insurance policies before participating with any of the new ridesharing...
State Auto Acquires Partners General Insurance Agency
Jun 2 2014 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. (State Auto) has completed its purchase of Partners General Insurance Agency (PGIA), a managing general underwriter specializing in excess and surplus lines...
Actuaries Grapple with Insurance Questions on Self-Driving Cars
Jun 2 2014 // The car of the future is pictured in an imagined scene in a 1950s science magazine. The illustration depicts a family sitting in a big convertible, a tail-finned monster. Mom, Dad and their kids are in a circle, playing a...
Arrests in California Fraud Ring Targeting Auto Dealers and Insurers
Jun 2 2014 // A four-year investigation into an organized fraud ring has uncovered a million-dollar scheme targeting high-end vehicles through auto loan and insurance fraud has led to several arrests, the California Department of...
Self-Driving Car Testing Rules Adopted by California
Jun 2 2014 // California has new rules that govern the testing of self-driving cars on public roads. The rules, approved on May 19 by state attorneys, require a human to be in the driver’s seat when a computer takes control during...
20 Years Later, Stolen 1966 Red Mustang Returned to Owner
Jun 2 2014 // Betsy Montgomery, drove the same car on her 55th birthday that she drove as a 15-year-old living in south Jackson, Mississippi – a 1966 red Mustang that her dad bought from the original owner in 1973. How she got the...
Michigan Car Insurance Fund Records not Public, Court Says
Jun 2 2014 // The Michigan appeals court says the public has no right to see the records of an insurance fund that puts a fee on cars to pay for catastrophic injuries. The court said that the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association is...
