Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arizona Passes Law to Verify Auto Insurance
Jul 30 2009 // Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law a bill designed to reduce the number of uninsured motorists on the road. HB2224 requires that a driver that has a third or subsequent violation within three years for not...
Ohio Auto and Homeowners Insurance Rates Increased in 2008
Jul 28 2009 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 private passenger auto insurers increased 0.8 percent in 2008. The average rates for the state’s top...
U.S. Launches Auto ‘Clunker’ Program
Jul 27 2009 // The U.S. government launched a $1 billion cash incentive program on Friday to stimulate auto sales by getting consumers to part with gas guzzling cars and trucks and buy more fuel efficient vehicles. The program, which...
Progressive Introduces Any Auto Commercial Liability Endorsement
Jul 23 2009 // Progressive introduced a new commercial auto endorsements that might limit an agent’s errors and omissions exposure, the insurer says. Imagine this scenario — a customer has commercial auto insurance for his...
21st Century Auto Insurance Reduces Rates 3.4% for Californians
Jul 22 2009 // Shannon Kelly, 21st Century senior vice president, West region, has announced a $34 million rate reduction for 21st Century Auto Insurance Co. policyholders in California. This represents an average decrease of 3.4...
The Hartford Rolls Out AARP Auto Product Through Independent Agents
Jul 21 2009 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is now offering AARP-branded auto insurance through select, authorized independent agents. Previously, the insurance was only available directly from The Hartford by phone,...
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Jul 20 2009 // Illinois Governor Pat Quinn named Michael McRaith director of the newly created Department of Insurance (DOI), which separated from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) on June 1,...
Massachusetts Police Arrest 13 in Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Jul 20 2009 // Thirteen people have been charged with auto insurance fraud in connection with what Massachusetts police say was a staged accident that resulted in more than $76,000 in insurance payouts. Lawrence, Massachusetts Police...
Mini Reasons to Stay Sober
Jul 20 2009 // The survey showed a decline in the percentage of legally intoxicated drivers, but for the first time used screening techniques that detected other substances as well. My husband and I recently bought ourselves a new car...
Recession Increasing Insurance Fraud
Jul 20 2009 // Areas Where Agents Might See an Increase in Fraud Does a bad economy increase crime? According to Mike McKee, senior special agent for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, it’s too soon for statistics to confirm...
Japanese Agents Tour U.S. Agencies to Learn Best Practices
Jul 20 2009 // Most of Japan’s 300,000 Agencies Are Small, But They Are Dreaming Big ‘I’-Like The owners and producers of Japan’s estimated 300,000 insurance agencies can only dream of the success and freedom that...
California Closer to Allowing Mileage-Based Auto Insurance
Jul 20 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has issued proposed regulations for Pay-Drive (Usage Based Auto Insurance). According to the Commissioner, “Insurers frequently rely on consumers to provide their own...
Ohio Casualty Introduces Commercial Fleet Management System
Jul 17 2009 // Fairfield, Ohio-based Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has introduced Onboard Advisor, a fleet management system that helps companies increase commercial fleet safety and productivity, save...
North Carolina Rolls Back, Freezes Auto Insurance Rates
Jul 15 2009 // North Carolina is ordering auto insurers to roll back their rates to 2006 levels and send up to $50 million in refunds to about 1 million policyholders in a settlement announced today by Insurance Commissioner Wayne...
Louisiana Auto Theft, Fraud Authority Launches New Web Site
Jul 13 2009 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that the Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (LATIFPA) within the Department of Insurance has launched a new Web site with...
Fire Causes $300K in Damage to Maryland Auto Business
Jul 13 2009 // Maryland State Fire Marshals say a fire has destroyed a Manchester automotive company and 12 cars inside. There were no injuries. The fire began about 11:20 a.m. Friday when workers at Ron’s Automotive noticed the...
Auto Insurance Verification System Now in Place in Oklahoma
Jul 10 2009 // Oklahoma’s new electronic verification system for vehicle insurance is now online and fully operational. Oklahoma Tax Commission spokeswoman Paula Ross says validating insurance electronically gives immediate...
New York Charges Doctors, Hospital Employees with No-Fault Fraud
Jul 9 2009 // New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced the indictment of 12 people and 9 corporations across New York City for their roles in an alleged criminal enterprise that paid hospital employees for confidential...
Former Employee Wills Half of Estate to State Auto Insurance Cos
Jul 9 2009 // As a thank you, a man has left $152,000 – half of his estate – to Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies, where he worked for 25 years. In his will, Jack Boyle said the bequest was in gratitude for...
Massachusetts Police Arrest 13 in Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Jul 8 2009 // Thirteen people from Lawrence and Methuen have been charged with auto insurance fraud in connection with what police say was a staged accident that resulted in more than $76,000 in insurance payouts. Lawrence Chief John...
