Latest Auto Headlines
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Arrowhead General Offers Market for Auto/Extra Heavy Trucks and Tractors
Aug 9 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc.’s Commercial Division has a new market for commercial auto/extra heavy trucks and tractors available in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Extra heavy trucks...
Safer Cars, Not Better Drivers, Behind Fewer Roadway Deaths
Aug 9 2006 // The designs of passenger vehicles have been improving for years, becoming more protective of their occupants in crashes. Without these improvements, the motor vehicle death rate per registered vehicle would have stopped...
Kemper Auto and Home Aims to Relieve Texas Select Policyholders
Aug 8 2006 // Kemper Auto and Home announced that it is participating in the effort to help policyholders of Texas Select Lloyds Insurance Company make the adjustment away from the recently liquidated insurer to a new insurer. The...
Insurance Poll Reveals Misconceptions about Renter’s Insurance
Aug 8 2006 // Every year Washington residents end up with millions of dollars in uninsured losses that could be prevented. According to a poll commissioned by PEMCO Insurance based in Seattle, there is widespread misunderstanding of...
Three Arrested for Staging Florida PIP Fraud Accidents
Aug 8 2006 // Three individuals, including a father and daughter have been arrested and face felony charges stemming from staged accidents and $40,000 in fraudulent auto insurance billings according to Tom Gallagher, Florida’s...
Kick start my heart … but don’t steal my ‘bike’
Aug 7 2006 // A refrain from an old tune by Motley Crew probably sums up the feelings of motocycle enthusiasts who have been caught in the web of rising thefts in recent years. The National Insurance Crime Bureau just released its...
Linda Watters
Aug 7 2006 // Michigan Insurance Director of Insurance Linda Watters wants to make sure drivers in urban areas get a fair shake on the premiums they pay for auto and homeowners insurance. She has developed an initiative that would...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Ohio comes in fifth, Indiana in top 10 at number nine California was tops in the nation for motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Ohio had...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Texas comes in third; Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana in the middle of the pack for thefts California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National...
California insurers sue department to stop auto insurance regulations
Aug 7 2006 // Three insurance trade groups filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop enforcement of California Department of Insurance auto rating regulations they said will harm millions of policyholders. On...
A lot can happen in the auto dealers’ insurance market
Aug 7 2006 // Even with a wave of consolidation through the industry, the number of new and used auto dealerships in the U.S. is close to 100,000, meaning most independent agents have multiple dealers in their own backyards. “We...
Get your motor runnin’ – not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Texas had the dubious honor of coming in third place, with Florida falling in between the two as the state...
California insurers sue department to stop auto insurance regulations
Aug 7 2006 // News Currents Three insurance trade groups filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop enforcement of California Department of Insurance auto rating regulations they said will harm millions of...
A lot can happen in the auto dealers’ insurance market
Aug 7 2006 // Even with a wave of consolidation through the industry, the number of new and used auto dealerships in the U.S. is close to 100,000, meaning most independent agents have multiple dealers in their own backyards. “We...
San Jose Resident Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Aug 3 2006 // A San Jose woman has been arrested for insurance fraud after she allegedly falsified information while submitting a claim to an insurance company, according to California Commissioner John Garamendi. Suzanne Aguilar, 34,...
N.Y. Fraud Fighting Pays Off; Medical Pros Charged in Latest Scam
Aug 1 2006 // A physician, a medical clinic owner and others are accused of a multimillion dollar auto insurance scam involving staged crashes and perpetrators who sought unnecessary treatment at facilities that were part of the scheme,...
Unitrin Direct Lowering Auto Rates in Colorado
Jul 27 2006 // Unitrin Direct is lowering auto rates 6 percent in Colorado. The reduction is largely due to recent legislative insurance reform, House Bill 1188, that shifted Colorado from no- fault insurance to a tort system on July 1,...
N.C. Chiropractor Helped Stage Accidents, Treated Patients
Jul 26 2006 // A Rocky Mount, N.C. chiropractor who encouraged people to stage car crashes and then seek fake treatment from him has been sentenced to seven years in prison. For about three years, Mark McKinnon cheated insurance...
Hail Storm Keeps Mt. Washington’s ‘Crashbuster’ Van Totally Busy
Jul 25 2006 // “It was like Armageddon,” independent agent Pam Sakowski says of the hailstorm that hammered Exeter, New Hampshire, on July 11. Sakowski, who owns the Ray F. MacDonald Agency in Durham, was visiting her friends...
Truck Firm in Avon, Conn. Crash Charged with Manslaughter
Jul 25 2006 // After a yearlong investigation, the owner of the runaway dump truck that slammed into a group of cars at the bottom of Avon Mountain in Connecticut a year ago has been charged with manslaughter. David Wilcox, 71, who ran...
