Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
USG adds Angi and Van Zanten to California Operations
Mar 7 2013 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and managing general agent added producers/brokers Joyce Chambers and Angi Van Zanten. Chambers has more than 20 years of experience in insurance. Most recently Chambers...
Garagekeepers Sometimes Lags in the Auto Repair Shop
Mar 5 2013 // The neighborhood auto repair shop or local gas station might seem to be an easy risk to insure. But there are a few misunderstood coverages that agents and brokers should know about, says one California broker specializing...
Texas Auto Insurers Back Texting While Driving Restrictions
Feb 27 2013 // Texas’ major auto insurers support proposed legislation to prohibit texting while driving as the next logical step to prevent accidents and deaths on Texas’ increasingly crowded roadways. Beaman Floyd,...
Trinity Underwriting Managers Announces Commercial Auto Program
Feb 26 2013 // Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), a Georgia-based program administrator, has expanded its commercial auto capabilities. TUMI has established a relationship with an “A” rated carrier that underwrites...
Georgia Considers Electronic Auto Insurance Card
Feb 25 2013 // Georgia drivers would be able to have an electronic version of their car insurance card under a proposal that has cleared the state House of Representatives. The plan from Monroe Republican Bruce Williamson now heads to...
North Carolina’s Goodwin: Home, Auto, Health and More…
Feb 25 2013 // Interview with Recently Re-Elected Insurance Commissioner Recently re-elected North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is more focused on reform of the homeowners insurance market than he is on auto insurance....
Indiana Man Sues over Crash That Killed His Wife
Feb 22 2013 // The husband of a northeastern Indiana woman who died when a semi-trailer rear-ended two cars in January is suing the truck driver and the truck’s owner. The federal lawsuit seeks at least $75,000 in damages in the...
Parents Win $10.5M Verdict in Dallas ‘Monster Truck’ Death
Feb 22 2013 // The parents of a 23-year-old woman killed when she was struck by a “monster truck” in a Dallas “gentlemen’s club” parking lot have won a $10.5 million civil verdict against the driver and the...
Idea to Limit Auto Claims in Michigan Criticized
Feb 22 2013 // The top elected official in Michigan’s Oakland County is criticizing proposals from fellow Republicans to change Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance program to limit the amount of medical claims. The Detroit...
Michigan’s Unlimited Auto Insurance, Revisited
Feb 21 2013 // Most of the attempts to fix Michigan’s long-time Essential Insurance Act have ended as spectacularly as the meteor which exploded over the Ural Mountains town of Chelyabinsk a few days ago, injuring over a thousand...
National Insurance Crime Bureau: Sandy-Damaged Vehicles Surpass 250K Mark
Feb 21 2013 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today announced revised estimates for the number of vehicles damaged as a result of Superstorm Sandy. The current estimate of vehicles damaged as a result of Sandy is now set at...
Police Blame Missouri Law for Rise in Vanishing Cars
Feb 20 2013 // Why are thefts of older vehicles climbing in Missouri? And why are so many of them never seen again? St. Louis-area police who pondered what seemed like an improbable trend say they believe they have found the culprit...
Bill to Mandate Motorcycle Helmets Aired in Maine
Feb 15 2013 // The latest proposal to again make helmet use mandatory for all Maine motorcyclists was couched Tuesday, Feb. 12, by supporters as a public safety issue and by opponents as a matter of personal freedom. Medical groups...
A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Michigan’s Ally Insurance Group Members
Feb 15 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ (Good) and issuer credit ratings of “bbb” of Motors Insurance Corp. and its reinsured subsidiaries, MIC Property and Casualty Insurance Corp. and...
CHP Posts Rules for Motorcycle Lane-Splitting
Feb 13 2013 // The California Highway Patrol and other statewide traffic safety groups have created a set of written guidelines on motorcycle “lane-splitting,” the at-times hair-splitting maneuver that allows riders to...
Everest National Insurance Company Awards American Claims Management with Personal Auto Program
Feb 13 2013 // San Diego, CA, 02/13/13 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM), a national third party administrator, has been awarded the claims handling for the Personal Auto Program from Everest National Insurance Company...
Insurers: False Auto Claims on the Rise in Minnesota
Feb 12 2013 // Auto insurance companies say false and exaggerated injury claims are on the rise in Minnesota. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says suspicious personal injury claims have tripled since 2008. Minnesota ranked tenth in...
Northeast Trying to Get Back on Track After Snowstorm
Feb 11 2013 // Emergency crews and residents struggled to clear roadways and sidewalks from a storm that rampaged through the Northeast, dumping up to 3 feet of snow and bringing howling winds that knocked out power to hundreds of...
Farmers Insurance Pulling Out of Louisiana
Feb 11 2013 // Farmers Insurance Exchange, which has around 23,000 homeowner and 7,000 auto policies in Louisiana, is dropping those lines of business in the state, but a company spokesman said Friday it will retain more than 100,0000...
Unfair Drivers
Feb 11 2013 // In its latest report on auto insurance premiums, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said insurers charge higher premiums to safe drivers than to unsafe drivers. That claim seems to go against the grain when...
