Latest Auto Headlines
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Safety Report Cites Lack of Progress in Reducing Motorcyclist Deaths
May 22 2012 // Last year saw little to no progress in reducing the number of fatal motorcycle crashes around the country, making this one of the few areas in highway safety where progress has been disappointing. The Governors Highway...
Safety Regulators Investigating Electric Car Fire
May 21 2012 // U.S. safety regulators are investigating a fire in Texas that destroyed three vehicles this month, including a luxury plug-in sports car built by Fisker Automotive. The Fisker Karma, which sells for more than $100,000, was...
Kentucky Program Aims to Catch Uninsured Drivers
May 21 2012 // Kentucky drivers could see their car registrations cancelled and they could be charged with insurance fraud if they are found to be operating a vehicle without the proper insurance. Under current law, Kentucky drivers must...
Idaho Man Gets Jail Time for Faking Motorcycle Mishap
May 21 2012 // The insurance claim seemed straightforward: Jason Preston said his motorcycle was wrecked. His clothing was scuffed up to prove it. But Idaho investigators figured there was something fishy about the Blackfoot man’s...
Keeping Teen Drivers Out of Trouble
May 21 2012 // May is National Youth Traffic Safety Month, and it’s the perfect time to remind teen drivers about safety behind the wheel. The number of teen driving deaths continues to fall and is now at an all-time low....
How Young Insurance Agents Are Changing the Industry
May 17 2012 // There’s a change happening — a big change. And some say young independent insurance agents are the catalyst for that change. They may even be leading a revolution, of sorts, says one young agent leader. Jason D....
Jones: Low Cost Auto Insurance Decrease Up To 9% Across California
May 16 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced that beginning May 15 the cost of an annual premium for the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program has decreased up to 9 percent across California’s 58...
Future Vision: Will Driving Become Too Safe to Insure?
May 8 2012 // What would happen to the auto insurance industry if automobile safety improves to the point that vehicle collisions become relics of the past? That’s the question explored by global consulting and research firm,...
Nevada Issues First Autonomous Vehicle Test License to Google
May 8 2012 // The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has approved an application for a license by Google Inc. to test autonomous vehicles on Nevada public roads, DMV announced this week. It is the first license issued in the United...
N.J. Judge to Decide If Text Sender Liable for Car Crash
May 7 2012 // A New Jersey judge will likely soon decide whether a woman who sent a text message to a male friend can be held liable for a car crash he caused while reading the message. The Daily Record reports the legal question stems...
Progressive Expands Commercial Auto Coverage Limits
May 7 2012 // Progressive Insurance has doubled the available liability limits of its commercial auto policies. It now offers options for $1.5 or $2 million. The expanded limits mean business owners won’t need to buy a separate...
Michigan Governor Signs Bill Making Motorcycle Helmets Optional
May 7 2012 // A decades-long fight to eliminate Michigan’s helmet law roared into the victory lane on April 13, 2012, when Gov. Rick Snyder announced he signed the repeal into law. Senate Bill 291 took effect immediately, making...
Florida Governor Signs Long-Awaited Auto Insurance Anti-Fraud Bill
May 4 2012 // Florida’s decade long attempt to reform the state’s automobile no-fault insurance law has finally paid off. Gov. Rick Scott, flanked by rows of law enforcement officials and state officials, signed into law...
Idaho Man Gets Jail Time For Faking Motorcycle Mishap
May 4 2012 // The insurance claim seemed straightforward: Jason Preston said his motorcycle was wrecked. His clothing was scuffed up to prove it. But Idaho investigators figured there was something fishy about the Blackfoot man’s...
Allstate Profit Jumps 46% in Q1
May 3 2012 // Allstate Insurance reported a first quarter profit of $766 million, up by about 46 percent from a year-earlier profit of $524 million. The increase was due to improvement in operating income and, to a lesser extent,...
Main Street America Remodels Automated Commercial Auto Product
May 1 2012 // The Main Street America Group has introduced a remodeled commercial auto product to independent insurance agents who represent the super regional property/casualty insurance carrier in Arizona, Oklahoma and South...
Fewer Auto Insurance Buyers Shopping But More Switching Carriers: J.D. Powers
May 1 2012 // The auto insurance shopping rate has reached the lowest point in the past five years, with only 25 percent of insurance customers indicating they shopped for a new insurer in the past 12 months, down eight percentage...
Best Downgrades Interstate Auto’s Ratings to ‘C+’; Outlook Negative
Apr 30 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to ‘C+’ (Marginal) from ‘C++’ (Marginal) and issuer credit rating to “b-” from “b” of Baltimore-based Interstate...
Tennessee to Arrest Illegal Drivers Involved in Serious Auto Accidents
Apr 26 2012 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law a bill that for the first time would require law enforcement officials to arrest drivers involved in serious automobile accidents who don’t have a valid driver’s...
Returning Soldiers Involved in More Car Crashes: Study
Apr 24 2012 // U.S. military personnel have 13 percent more car accidents in which they are at fault in the six months after returning from overseas duty than in the six months prior, a USAA study revealed on Tuesday. USAA, a major...
