Latest Auto Headlines
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Direct Writers Continue Battle for Massachusetts Auto Market
Jun 1 2009 // Allstate Announces Plan to Begin Writing After Generation-Long Hiatus Direct writers continue to target the Massachusetts personal auto insurance market, as one major national carrier announced it has written its first...
Worker Dies When Truck Tire Explodes at New Jersey Firm
Jun 1 2009 // A worker putting air in a retreaded tractor-trailer tire at a New Jersey business was killed when it exploded. State police say Bruce Coverdale of Commercial Township died instantly in Friday’s accident at Advance...
State Auto: How a Regional Carrier Weathers the Storms
Jun 1 2009 // Super Regional CEO Restrepo Talks Catastrophe Losses, Premium Growth and Independent Agents How are regional insurance companies faring in today’s climate — financial and catastrophe? What challenges do they face?...
State Auto: How a Regional Carrier Weathers the Storms
Jun 1 2009 // CEO Restrepo Talks Cat Losses, Premium Growth and Independent Agents Regional property/casualty insurance companies don’t make headlines like the large institutions. They simply go about their business serving...
USG Insurance Offers Auto Dealerships in Liquidation Program
May 29 2009 // USG Insurance, national wholesaler and program manager headquartered in Canonsburg, Pa., has announced an insurance program for auto dealerships that are closing their doors. According to Kristen Taylor, national marketing...
Canada’s Auto Insurers Call for Effecftive Cost Control for Consumers
May 26 2009 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada, which represents 95 percent of the Country’s P/C carriers, has reacted strongly to charges that they oppose reforms in the auto sector. The IBC stated: “An alliance of medical/...
Actor Freeman Sued Over Mississippi Car Crash
May 26 2009 // Attorneys for Morgan Freeman have until July 6 to respond to a lawsuit filed by the woman who was with the actor the night of a car crash last August. Demaris Meyer has sued Freeman for negligence. The lawsuit against the...
Missouri DOT Urges Governor to Veto Repeal of Motorcycle Helmet Law
May 21 2009 // Missouri Transportation Director Pete Rahn says legislation repealing the state’s motorcycle helmet law for adults “makes no sense” and that Gov. Jay Nixon should veto it. Lawmakers during their annual...
Auto Thefts Down Dramatically in Texas But Car Burglaries Rise
May 20 2009 // Praise the work of auto theft task forces or new car manufacturers or both for the dramatic drop in auto thefts in Texas. Criminals are stealing older vehicles simply because they’re finding it harder to bypass...
American Collectors Insurance Offers Collector-Vehicle Coverage in Alaska
May 19 2009 // American Collectors Insurance, a provider of specialty insurance for collector vehicles and collectibles, has expanded to offer collector-vehicle insurance coverage in Alaska. The coverage applies to a range of collector...
Direct Writers Continue Battle for Massachusetts Auto Market
May 19 2009 // Direct writers continue to target the Massachusetts personal auto insurance market, as one major national carrier announced it has written its first policy in the state and another says it will begin writing direct in...
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May 18 2009 // Zurich Financial Services Group appointed Francis Bouchard head of the Climate Office. Bouchard will succeed Mike Kerner, who was appointed CEO of Global Corporate in North America. Bouchard will work to institutionalize...
Recession Increasing Insurance Fraud
May 18 2009 // Areas Where Agents Might See an Increase in Fraud Does a bad economy increase crime? Analysts have debated that question for years, according to Mike McKee, senior special agent for the National Insurance Crime Bureau....
Mennonites Seek Auto Insurance Law Exemption
May 18 2009 // The law requires them to buy motor vehicle insurance but their religion keeps them from using it. The small community of Mennonites that multiplied along a web of dirt roads in rural southeast Georgia has steadily grown...
Mennonites Seek Auto Insurance Law Exemption
May 18 2009 // The small community of Mennonites that multiplied along a web of dirt roads in rural southeast Georgia has steadily grown the same way it does just about everything: Quietly. The community’s 100 or so members have...
State Farm to Cut California Auto Insurance Rates
May 14 2009 // State Farm’s 3.3 million California auto insurance policyholders will soon see a decrease in their premiums, as the California Department of Insurance approved an 8 percent, $219 million rate cut. The 8 percent rate...
Bill Banning ‘Step-Down’ Clauses in Auto Policies Advances in Louisiana
May 13 2009 // Louisiana House Bill 208, which would force insurers to provide the maximum policy limits for automobile liability insurance coverage to anyone driving the insured’s vehicle, has been approved by the House Committee...
California Low-Cost Auto Program Expanded to El Centro
May 12 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Poizner has expanded the state’s Low Cost Automobile Insurance program to El Centro, Calif., in his aim to give residents an affordable automobile insurance option. “One out of...
Vandals Cause $50K Damage to Used Car Lot
May 12 2009 // The owner of a used car lot in New Boston, New Hampshire says vandals caused $50,000 damage by smashing windows, filling cars with fire extinguisher foam and spray-painting taillights. Jon Lewis, owner of Jon’s Route...
Religious Group Seeks Exemption From Georgia Auto Insurance Law
May 11 2009 // The small community of Mennonites that multiplied along a web of dirt roads in rural southeast Georgia has steadily grown the same way it does just about everything: Quietly. The community’s 100 or so members have...
