Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Conn. Woman Pleads No Contest to Attempted Insurance Fraud
Mar 3 2008 // The wife of a former truck owner whose truck was involved in a fatal crash on Connecticut’s Avon Mountain nearly three years ago has pleaded no contest to attempted insurance fraud. Donna Wilcox faced a trial that...
Universal North America Introduces Auto Coverage in Texas
Mar 3 2008 // Universal North America Insurance Company (Universal) announced it has begun offering automobile insurance coverage in Texas. Universal, a multi-regional personal lines carrier, already provides homeowners insurance and...
Liberty Mutual to Add 300 Jobs in New Western Mass. Office
Feb 29 2008 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance will open a 300-person office in Springfield, Mass. in the third quarter to handle growth, some of which is expected from the state’s move to a managed competition auto insurance...
Alabama House Votes to Raise Auto Insurance Requirements
Feb 28 2008 // The state House approved legislation Tuesday that would bring Alabama in line with about half the South by raising the minimum amount of auto liability insurance that motorists must buy. The House voted 82-0 for...
Consumer Groups: Mass. Auto System Unfair to Many Good Drivers
Feb 28 2008 // The new managed competition auto insurance system being implemented in Massachusetts rewards many bad drivers and penalizes many good drivers based on certain supposedly-prohibited social factors, according to the latest...
Cambridge GA Offers Accidental Downtime for Commercial Auto
Feb 28 2008 // California-based Cambridge General Agency is offering coverage for accidental downtime for commercial auto risks. This coverage is only available for vehicles with comprehensive and collision coverage. The accidental...
Report: Auto Claim Frequency Drops But Claim Severity on the Rise
Feb 28 2008 // Falling auto injury claim frequency and rising claim severity have created an unsettled auto injury claim environment countrywide, according to a new industry report. The report, Trends in Auto Injury Claims, 2008 Edition,...
Boston Software’s New SinglePoint Streamlines Mass. Auto Submissions
Feb 28 2008 // Boston Software has introduced SinglePoint, a new data-exchange system that makes it easy for independent agents to submit Massachusetts auto insurance applications to any carrier under the state’s revised...
First Auto Policy Sold 110 Years Ago Today
Feb 27 2008 // Today marks a significant anniversary in the history of insurance: 110 years since the first auto insurance policy. That policy was sold in 1898 by Traveler’s Insurance Co. to Dr. Truman Martin of Buffalo, N.Y.,...
Nissan Murano Gets Top Rating in New Crash Tests
Feb 27 2008 // The 2009 Nissan Murano was the best performer in new crash tests of midsize sport utility vehicles, while the Hummer H3 had one of the poorest showings, according to results released by the Insurance Institute for Highway...
Industry Groups Call Calif. Auto Repair Bill “Anti-Consumer”
Feb 26 2008 // The Association of California Insurance Companies, the American Insurance Association and the Personal Insurance Federation of California have announced their opposition to California Senate Bill 1167, a bill that the...
Progressive to Sell Mass. Auto Insurance Online Starting in May
Feb 25 2008 // Progressive Insurance said it plans to begin selling personal auto insurance in Massachusetts starting May 1 if state regulators approve the company’s rate filings, which it submitted to the Bay State’s...
Mich. House Bills Open Door to Scrutiny of Auto Insurance Fee
Feb 25 2008 // An insurance panel that sets rates for coverage of severely injured motorists would be subject to more public scrutiny under terms of legislation that passed the state House on Thursday. Some deliberations by the Michigan...
Congress Asked to Promote Wider Use of Motorcycle Helmets
Feb 24 2008 // U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters recently sent legislation to Congress that seeks greater flexibility for states to target one of the leading causes of motorcycle deaths across the nation: riding without a...
Insurers Criticize Proposed Washington Auto Glass Repair Bill
Feb 24 2008 // Legislation approved in early February by the Washington House of Representatives is unnecessary and limits consumer choice, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). “Policymakers just enacted a law in...
The Promise of NAFTA Not Quite Fulfilled
Feb 24 2008 // It’s been a long, frustrating process for most participants In February 2002, Insurance Journal reported that Congress and the Bush Administration had reached a deal whereby the trucking provisions of the North...
Medical Costs for Auto Injury Claims Outpacing Inflation
Feb 24 2008 // A new study by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) has found that medical expenses reported by auto injury claimants continue to rise faster than the rate of inflation. Average claimed economic losses (which include...
10 Things to Know About Commercial Auto
Feb 24 2008 // 1. When should an insured consider a commercial auto policy over a personal auto policy that is rated for business use? Generally speaking, when the vehicle is: Used for business and owned by a corporation or...
Offer Pre-Packaged Personal Auto Insurance Choices
Feb 24 2008 // Like it or not, personal automobile insurance, along with personal computers, has evolved into a commodity product. According to Wikipedia, a commodity is defined as “a largely homogeneous product, traded solely on...
Conn. Opens Runaway Truck Ramp on Avon Mountain
Feb 22 2008 // Connecticut transportation officials have opened a runaway truck ramp at a dangerous hilly intersection – more than two years after a fatal wreck and five months after a second crash. Work on the $2.8 million ramp on...
