Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
San Jose Man Arrested for Alleged Internet Scam
Jul 5 2001 // A San Jose man was arrested on charges of alleged insurance fraud and attempted auto theft in connection with the attempted theft and false insurance claim on a $9,000 Yamaha racing motorcycle, following a joint...
Calif. Brokers Have New Service to Offer, Vehicle Registration for Progressive Customers Now Available Online
Jul 2 2001 // California drivers insured with Progressive can now renew their auto, motorcycle and motor home registrations online, the company announced. Progressive electronically transmits proof of insurance to the Department of...
Consumer Federation of America’s Study Comes Under Fire from AIA
Jul 2 2001 // Calling the Consumer Federation of America’s (CFA) study on state insurance regulation “poorly conceived” and “wrong headed,” the American Insurance Association (AIA) is urging CFA to retract...
NAII Points to Rate Regulation, Repair Costs as Major Factors in Average Auto Premium Results
Jun 29 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), a state’s rating law plays a significant role in what people pay for auto insurance, Consumers in states with more regulation pay higher premiums...
Auto Experiment Impacted by Healthy Insurance Market, Household Priorities
Jun 29 2001 // According to the Insurance Information Network of California, when California unveiled an experimental, fixed-rate auto insurance policy for the poor last year, there was hope that it might encourage motorists who drive...
TurboCoverage, CVR Agree on Insurance Platform
Jun 28 2001 // TurboCoverage, a web-based auto insurance service for auto dealerships, has formed a partnership with Computerized Vehicle Registration (CVR), a provider of electronic vehicle registration, to market the TurboCoverage...
Agents Say Consumers Have More Attractive Auto Options
Jun 28 2001 // Agents and brokers will weigh in this week on California’s new low-cost auto insurance program at hearings held by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), reporting that they have been swamped by calls from...
Auto Dismantler Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Jun 26 2001 // Following a six-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Organized Automobile Fraud Interdiction Task Force, a former Sacramento auto dismantler was arrested on four felony counts of insurance...
TROUBLES IN N.J. AUTO
Jun 25 2001 // State Farm Indemnity announced its intention to stop writing automobile business in New Jersey, pending approval from state regulators, which could take years to complete. Last October, the company applied for a 16.8...
4X4 For Fraud
Jun 25 2001 // CDI fraud investigators arrested a Fresno resident, Kyle Cory Bettencourt, 27, on auto insurance fraud charges on May 22, 2001 and booked him into the Fresno County Jail. Bettencourt was charged with four felony counts of...
Newark Wants Out of NJ Auto Market Too
Jun 22 2001 // The break in the dam, that started with the announcement by State Farm Indemnity that it planned to leave New Jersey’s auto insurance market, now threatens to become a flood, as yet another state carrier, Newark...
Auto Club Says Calif. Teen Driving Law Could Prevent Nearly 100,000 Crashes in Next Decade
Jun 22 2001 // According to the Automobile Club of California California’s Graduated Driver Licensing Law (GDL), one of the toughest teen driving laws in the nation, will have a major impact on the number one killer of teens...
AIG Files To Exit NJ Auto Market
Jun 21 2001 // Insurance giant American International Group became the second insurance company in two weeks to file a request with New Jersey’s Insurance Department requesting permission to withdraw from the state’s...
Thomas Van Berkel Named National Grange CEO
Jun 21 2001 // The Board of Directors of New Hampshire-based National Grange Mutual Insurance Co. announced the election of “Thomas M. Van Berkel as president Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer-elect.” Van...
Allstate To Sell German, Italian Auto to Direct Line
Jun 21 2001 // Allstate announced yesterday that it would sell its direct auto insurance businesses in Germany and Italy to the U.K.’s Direct Line. The German operation, launched in 1997 has around 117,000 policies in force. The...
GuideOne Insurance Sells Tulsa Operations to Home State
Jun 18 2001 // GuideOne Insurance announce that the company signed a definitive agreement, effective Aug. 1, 2001, to sell GuideOne Casualty Insurance Company, the organization’s Tulsa, Okla., operation, to the Home State Insurance...
Liberty Mutual May Take the Highway
Jun 18 2001 // One of New Jersey’s top five auto insurers is considering its options as a result of an announcement last week by State Farm Indemnity Co. which indicated it was withdrawing from selling auto insurance in the Garden...
Lincoln General Speeds into Calif. Nonstandard Auto Market
Jun 18 2001 // A new insurer is taking on the nonstandard auto market in California. Lincoln General Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Kingsway Financial Services Inc., is now licensed to start selling nonstandard auto insurance in the...
Insurance Fraud Nets Arrest
Jun 15 2001 // A Riverside, Calif., man was arrested and booked into Riverside County Jail on a pair of felony counts of insurance fraud and one misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an accident. Investigators from the California...
State Farm Indemnity Pulls Out of N.J. Auto Market, Gets A.M. Best Downgrade
Jun 14 2001 // State Farm Indemnity announced on June 12 that it intends to stop writing automobile business in New Jersey. The announcement was immediately followed by A.M. Best Co. downgrading the financial strength rating of the...
