Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mass. Fraud Task Force Targets Two Cities
Apr 13 2004 // In a targeted effort to reduce the number of fraudulent auto insurance claims that drive up premium costs for residents of Springfield and Holyoke, Mass., a task force has been formed that combines the resources of the...
Liberty Mutual, BMW Car Club of America Foundation, and BMW Dealers Seated Together to Save Teen Lives
Apr 13 2004 // The BMW Car Club of America (BMW CCA) Foundation has announced a partnership with Liberty Mutual Group and BMW dealers throughout the U.S. designed to save the lives of teen drivers. Through the BMW CCA Foundation’s...
N.J. Dollar-a-Day Policy Sales Top 1,500
Apr 8 2004 // The number of drivers enrolled in the Dollar-a-Day auto insurance program in Nw jersey has surpassed 1,500, just six months after it was launched to help uninsured drivers with limited means get affordable auto insurance,...
Hawaii Not to Pursue Study on Auto Repair Shop Ownership Restrictions
Apr 7 2004 // A resolution that calls for a study of the need to prohibit insurance companies from owning auto repair facilities was deferred indefinitely following a hearing on the issue in Honolulu recently. Senate Concurrent...
ING (Canada) Supports New Brunswick Auto Reforms
Apr 7 2004 // ING Insurance, the leading automobile insurer in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, indcated that drivers there could reap more substantive savings than those offered by the Select Committee on Public Automobile...
N.J. Governor Again Hails Auto Improvements
Apr 7 2004 // New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey and Commissioner Holly C. Bakke are celebrating what they say are two milestones on the road to a consumer-directed auto insurance marketplace – more than $100 million returned...
N.J. Couple Driven to Auto Accident Settlement Monies Fraud; Managed to Net More Than $25,000
Apr 7 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a former Middlesex County-based insurance company employee and her boyfriend have been charged by the Division of Criminal Justice -Office of Insurance Fraud...
Mass. Gov. Romney Vows Action on Auto Market
Apr 6 2004 // Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney renewed his call for reform of the state’s auto insurance system yesterday and vowed to introduce a plan to introduce competitive rating and modify the subsidies good drivers now...
Federal Roads Bill Upgrades States’ Driver Safety
Apr 5 2004 // Kevin Jordan is a retired State Highway Patrol trooper who believes that learning how to drive means learning what to do when the brakes lock up. “Many kids don’t get anything more than the basic stuff, and the...
How Healthy is the Mass. Auto Market’
Apr 5 2004 // In a state where independent agents write 80 percent of private passenger auto insurance, agents are worried about attracting more capital. While thinking about this question, consider the following facts: only 19...
Public Auto
Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Glendale, Calif.-based general agent KF&B Inc. announced a new public auto program. The program underwrites charter and sightseeing buses, limousines, tour vans, and various types of shuttle vans....
Florida OIR Charges Ahead with Credit Score Workshop
Apr 5 2004 // Give the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) credit, it has been a good listener when it comes to questions and concerns on the role of credit scoring. During a rule development workshop last month in Tallahassee,...
Mich. Auto Insurers Failing to File Data Face Penalties
Apr 5 2004 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) Commissioner Linda Watters said that two insurance companies that failed to submit information requested through an auto insurance data call by March 15, 2004 now...
Flood, Credit Rank Among Top 2004 Maryland Issues as Session Ends
Apr 5 2004 // As the 2004 Maryland legislative session draws to a close, a myriad of property/casualty insurance bills reportedly benefiting consumers in providing disaster relief and fair underwriting and rating practices are...
OneBeacon Expands Auto Product for Maine Drivers
Apr 2 2004 // The family with a car each for dad, mom, the college sophomore and the high-school senior. The tenant in apartment 2B who’s never had a ticket or an accident in 20 years of driving. The distracted shopper who backed...
PCI Study Examines State Residual Auto Markets
Apr 2 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has released its analysis of “residual auto market populations” and has found a connection between such assigned risk plans and state rating laws. The study...
IBC to Focus on Auto Theft, Organized Crime
Apr 2 2004 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada has announced plans to concentrate its investigative efforts exclusively on auto theft and organized crime, and has therefore discontinued investigations of individual claims as of April...
Dozens Arrested for Auto Body Insurance Fraud in Northern California
Apr 1 2004 // A multi-agency enforcement unit conducted a sweep April 1 that has to date resulted in the arrests of 27 suspects following a year-long undercover investigation into auto body insurance fraud. Warrants were issued by the...
New ISO Symbols Rate Cars By Make and Model for Liability, No-Fault/Medical Payments Insurance
Apr 1 2004 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has introduced a personal auto rating program carriers can use to tailor the cost of insurance for bodily injury and property damage liability and no-fault/medical payments coverage...
Former Mass. Official D’Amato Heads Consumer Group
Mar 31 2004 // A former director of the State Rating Bureau (SRB) within the Massachusetts Division of Insurance and frequent critic of the industry and its regulators has signed on to be executive director at the Center for Insurance...
