Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Non-franchised Used Car Dealers
Apr 29 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: DMI Insurance Services Inc. is offering a program for non-franchised used car dealers. Appointments are required. DMI is seeking to form long-lasting, mutually beneficial partnerships with producers that...
Business Auto – Mexico
Apr 29 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Mexipass is offering a business auto program for U.S. vehicles in Mexico, targeted toward commercial vehicles registered in the U.S. and owned by U.S. companies or U.S. residents. Provides the same...
CALIF. COMMITTEE APPROVES LOW-COST AUTO LEGISLATION
Apr 29 2002 // A California insurance committee has approved legislation that would indefinitely extend the state’s experimental low cost auto insurance program and could drive up the number of underinsured motorists, according to...
AUTO INSURERS AGREE TO HAWAII FINES
Apr 29 2002 // Seven of Hawaii’s largest auto insurance companies who have been under investigation for allegedly using prohibited criteria to determine premiums, have agreed to pay fines totaling $115,500. The seven...
Bay Area Trio Allegedy Conspired to Commit Fraud
Apr 29 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division arrested Antioch resident Rudolfo Villasenor, 28, for felony insurance fraud and possession of dangerous drugs/narcotics, along with Ruben Rodriguez, Jr., 25, of...
Fair Oaks Man Arrested on Fraud Charge
Apr 29 2002 // Stanislav Svinarenko was booked into the Sacramento County Jail with bail set at $5,000 after being arrested on one count of insurance fraud. The Fair Oaks resident faces up to five years in state prison, with a possible...
Philadelphia Resident Caught in Auto Fraud Scheme
Apr 29 2002 // The CDI announced the arrest of John Martin by the Philadelphia Police Department Felony Warrant Detail. The arrest warrant was issued in Orange Superior County Superior Court in response to two felony charges filed by the...
Neb. Session Successful for Insurers
Apr 24 2002 // Nebraska legislators adjourned April 19 without enacting any bills that might have harmed insurers and their policyholders. Several bills were amended in the closing days of the session to make them fairer to both...
John D’Agostino to represent PIANJ on DOBI Auto Reform Committee
Apr 18 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. announced that vice president, John D’Agostino, will represent the association on the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance’s (DOBI) working group...
Divorce leads to insurance fraud arrest
Apr 15 2002 // Investigators from CDI’s Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested 33 year-old Jamel Hassan Nichols for insur-ance fraud. The investigation began with two referrals from the California State...
Ringleader caught in auto fraud scheme
Apr 15 2002 // Keith Aaron Hayes was arrested on four counts of auto insurance fraud after a two year investigation revealed he allegedly conspired with others in the filing of false insurance claims. The conspirators included Lynnette...
Insurance Auto Auctions in Okla.
Apr 15 2002 // Automotive salvage and claims processing services provider, Insurance Auto Auctions Inc., is opening a greenfield facility in Oklahoma City, Okla. Located near the Oklahoma City Airport, the 20-acre facility will serve the...
Truck Program
Apr 15 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: The Consumer Division of Royal & SunAlliance USA has introduced a program of insurance and services designed specifically for the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA). Available to both...
Allstate Moves 12 Percent of TX Auto Customer to Unregulated Unit
Apr 15 2002 // Citing poor financial performance at its Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance division, Allstate Insurance Co. announced it was moving 264,000 personal auto customers—12 percent of its customers in Texas—to its...
The Midland Co. Reports Record High Operating Earnings
Apr 12 2002 // The Midland Company, a specialty insurance products and services provider headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported that net operating income (net income excluding capital gains/losses and the effects of any changes in...
NAII Maps Out Auto Issues of Joint Concern to Insurers, Repairers
Apr 12 2002 // Diminished value, direct repair, salvage title and competitive crash repair parts top the National Association of Independent Insurers’ (NAII) automotive issues public policy agenda this year, the NAII...
AAI Backs Schumer Auto Fraud Bill in U.S. Senate
Apr 12 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers has voiced its initial support for the Cheaper Car Insurance Act, which would make auto fraud a federal crime punishable by as long as 15 years in prison and as much as $100,000 in fines....
Auto Insurers Agree to Hawaii Fines
Apr 12 2002 // Seven of Hawaii’s largest auto insurance companies who have been under investigation for allegedly using prohibited criteria to determine premiums, have agreed to pay fines totaling $115,500. The seven...
Fair Oaks, Calif., Man Arrested on Fraud Charge
Apr 10 2002 // Stanislav Svinarenko was booked into the Sacramento County (Calif.) Jail with bail set at $5,000 after being arrested on one count of insurance fraud. The Fair Oaks resident faces up to five years in state prison, with a...
NJ Industry and Consumer Groups Launch Campaign for Auto Insurance Reform
Apr 9 2002 // Insurance industry and consumer groups have joined together to launch an extensive advertising campaign aimed at building support for their efforts to bring about reforms in New Jersey’s automobile insurance...
