Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Customer Satisfaction Impacts Bottom Line, J.D. Powers Reports
Aug 29 2006 // Auto insurance companies that record high levels of customer satisfaction benefit from customer behaviors that have positive financial implications, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 National Auto Insurance...
Conn., Mass., R.I. Kick-Off Tri-State Truck Enforcement Campaign
Aug 28 2006 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell and State Police and Motor Vehicle officials from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will kick off a Tri-State Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Operation on Tuesday, August 29, at...
California Lawmakers Enter Final Days of 2005-06 Session
Aug 28 2006 // California lawmakers on Monday will begin the final days of the 2005-2006 legislative session, which ends midnight Aug. 31. The following, by Sam Sorich, president of the Association of California Insurance Companies, is a...
Latin American Agents Will Wait and See How Auto Regs Affect Customers
Aug 28 2006 // The Latin American Agents Association said it will wait and see how insurers react to newly imposed automobile rating regulations in California. After the Superior Court denial, and Appeals Court rejection of the insurer...
N.D. Police Say Baby Wedged in Car; Woman Charged
Aug 25 2006 // Mandan, N.D. police say a woman has been charged with child abuse or neglect after officers found her 8-month-old son wedged behind the driver’s seat of a car when they pulled her over for driving erratically. Sarah...
Commerce Insurance Says Mass. Doesn’t Need Assigned Risk Plan
Aug 24 2006 // The state’s largest auto insurer and the lead plaintiff in the fight against Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler’s effort to install an auto insurance assigned risk plan is hoping that Bowler...
Study Hits States Without Helmet Laws
Aug 24 2006 // According to a study by Jeffrey Coben, M.D., a researcher at West Virginia University, states that do not require motorcycle riders and passengers to wear helmets may be contributing to the unnecessary deaths,...
Hail Damage Requires Extra Auto Salvage Inspectors in N.H.
Aug 23 2006 // New Hampshire has set up a temporary salvage inspection center to deal with the large number of cars and trucks pounded by hail last month. State inspectors are working once a week out of the Department of Motors Vehicles...
Travelers’ Premier Offers Concierge Auto Claims Service in Mass.
Aug 23 2006 // The Premier Insurance Company of Massachusetts, a Travelers personal lines company, has opened a Concierge Claim center in Woburn, Mass. The center is designed to assist claimants with the car insurance claims process,...
Chubb Reduces California Auto Rates An Average of 34 Percent
Aug 23 2006 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is lowering its automobile insurance rates in California by an average of 34 percent. Furthermore, the company said it is rolling out new coverage options including high limits of...
Mass. Supreme Court Upholds Auto Assigned Risk Plan
Aug 23 2006 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has unanimously ruled that the state insurance commissioner has the authority to create an assigned risk plan to replace the existing reinsurance plan for insuring high-risk...
Mass. Regulator Looks Ahead After Court Ruling Clears Way for Assigned Risk Plan
Aug 23 2006 // “We’re one step closer to operating like a normal market.” That’s how Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler greeted the news that the state Supreme Judicial Court had upheld her...
The Hartford Offering 12-Month Policies to Dimensions Insureds
Aug 22 2006 // Many auto insurance policies are offered on a 6-month basis, and the rates for those policies can sometimes change when the policy is renewed. To give its customers the advantage of having one policy rate for an entire...
In Maine, Wrongful Death Suit Blames Forklift Design
Aug 22 2006 // The family of a Sanford man killed in an industrial accident blames the manufacturer of a forklift for a design that allowed the man to become pinned when he backed up under a shelving unit. An inexpensive adaptation could...
Not telling consumers about risks may be an agent’s biggest risk
Aug 21 2006 // Every year, just before daylight savings time rolls around, I get a package in the mail with a 9-volt battery. The package is from my mortgage company, sending me a reminder to change the battery in my smoke detector. That...
Safer cars, not better drivers, behind fewer roadway deaths
Aug 21 2006 // The designs of passenger vehicles have been improving for years, becoming more protective of their occupants in crashes. Without those improvements, the motor vehicle death rate per registered vehicle would have stopped...
Judge denies California insurers’ lawsuit to stop auto rate regs
Aug 21 2006 // A Sacramento Superior Court judge has rejected the insurance industry’s request for an injunction against auto insurance rate regulation reforms in California, but the legal challenges will not end...
Motor sports coverage: garage risks on speed
Aug 21 2006 // The high-value of even the lowest-priced racing cars and the likelihood of calamity drive up overall insurance costs and make liability coverage for motor sports particularly difficult to find, according to motor sports...
Motor sports coverage: garage risks on speed
Aug 21 2006 // The high-value of even the lowest-priced racing cars and the likelihood of calamity drive up overall insurance costs and make liability coverage for motor sports particularly difficult to find, according to motor sports...
Golf Course Risks and Greek Mythology
Aug 21 2006 // In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a deceitful king who was condemned to spend eternity pushing a giant boulder up a mountain. As Sisyphus approached the peak of the mountain, the rock would elude him and roll back down to...
