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Rental Car Company to Pay $80K in Penalties, Implement Reforms Over Fraud Allegations
Sep 17 2020 // A discount car rental company operating out of Newark and JFK Airports has agreed to pay $80,000 in penalties, enter binding arbitration to resolve consumer complaints and change its policies and practices following New...
House Democrats Ask Why Auto Safety Rules Are Delayed
Sep 17 2020 // Three senior Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday asked government auditors to study why U.S. auto safety regulators have failed to write dozens of new auto safety regulations. The delayed rules...
South Dakota AG Thought He Hit a Deer; It Was a Man
Sep 16 2020 // South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said in a statement late on Sept. 14 that he realized he had struck and killed a man walking along a rural stretch of highway only after returning to the scene the next day and...
Uber Backup Driver Faces Homicide Charges in Fatal 2018 Arizona Crash
Sep 16 2020 // The back-up safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber Technologies test vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 was charged with negligent homicide, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Rafael...
Pennsylvania Authorities Arrest Alleged Fraud Network Participants
Sep 15 2020 // Pennsylvania authorities filed criminal charges on July 13 in Dauphin County against Kenneth Torres, Louis Torres, Ruth Negron-Acevedo, Juan Lopez-Barco and Philadelphia-based businesses EZ Multi-Services and Saul Auto...
NHC: Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens to Hurricane
Sep 14 2020 // Update 4:00 pm EST: Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a hurricane ahead of expected landfall on Tuesday, the...
Michigan Auto Insurer Hagerty Adds Hunter as VP, Brand
Sep 14 2020 // Hagerty, based in Traverse City, Mich., has added Laura Hunter to its Brand team as vice president of Brand Communications. Reporting to Soon Hagerty, senior vice president of Brand, Hunter oversee public relations,...
Reinsurers Enter January Renewals, Focusing on Underwriting Discipline: Carpenter, Aon
Sep 14 2020 // Economic uncertainty and volatility, in combination with COVID-19-related losses, is leading to a heightened level of cautiousness among property reinsurers unless pricing and terms and conditions meet specific thresholds,...
COVID-19 Takes Toll on Canada’s Auto, Life Insurers
Sep 10 2020 // Canada’s property/casualty insurance industry thus far has fared better than its life counterpart amid the economic and market dynamics created by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an AM Best report. In its...
S.D. Governor Disputes Report Tying COVID-19 Case Surge to Motorcycle Rally
Sep 8 2020 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has dismissed as “fiction” a recent study published by San Diego State University that ties the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August to a massive surge in COVID-19 cases and...
Is It Covered? The Unimpeachable Case of What ‘Are’ Is
Sep 8 2020 // One claim dispute I was involved with I refer to in seminars as “The Unimpeachable Case of What ‘Are’ Is.” It illustrates how a single word, even the tense of a verb, in a policy form can make all...
Hoy Named EVP, Auto Dealer Programs at Risk Point Underwriters in Dallas
Sep 8 2020 // Dallas-based Risk Point Underwriters LLC has named Scott A. Hoy executive vice president for the specialty auto dealer underwriting unit. Hoy will be responsible for driving profitable growth and delivering customer...
Trump Administration Eyes Pilot Program for 18-Year Old Interstate Truck Drivers
Sep 8 2020 // An 18-year-old can’t buy a beer in most U.S. states, but pretty soon he or she may be able to drive a commercial truck across state lines — and that has safety advocates alarmed. The Federal Motor Carrier...
Elephant Insurance Discounts Auto Coverage for Work From Home Customers
Sep 8 2020 // Elephant Insurance is now offering discounted car insurance rates to customers working from home. Policyholders and spouses working from home and driving less are eligible to receive the new discount, depending on the...
Berkley One Collector Vehicle Product Now Available in Minnesota
Sep 8 2020 // Berkley One has launched its Collector Vehicle product in Minnesota and and made rating enhancements to its coverage in Michigan. Berkley has provided collector vehicle owners coverage since 1974 and most recently...
NICB: Towing Scams Prove Costly for Chicagoans, Insurers
Sep 7 2020 // Though perhaps not the absolute worst region in the U.S. for insurance scams involving towing abuses, Chicago-area vehicle owners still face exorbitant towing and storage fees, unsolicited tows, and dangerous, unsafe...
Progressive, Farm Bureau Lowering Auto Insurance Rates in Louisiana
Sep 7 2020 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner has approved new rate decreases for private passenger auto policies for two major auto insurers in the state. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon signed off on Progressive Insurance...
CDI: 3 Charged with Auto Insurance Fraud, Forgery in California
Sep 7 2020 // Three Californians have been charged with multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and forgery for allegedly filing fraudulent insurance claims on a former employee’s policy and intercepting insurance checks to...
Insurance Group Says Safety Technologies Could Stop 40% of Big Truck Rear Crashes
Sep 4 2020 // Safety features such as automatic emergency braking and forward collision warnings could prevent more than 40% of crashes in which semis rear-end other vehicles, a new study has found. The Insurance Institute for Highway...
Pay-Per-Mile Car Insurer Metromile Signs Deal with Ford
Sep 3 2020 // Auto insurer Metromile said it is teaming up with Ford Motor Co. to provide owners of Ford vehicles with connectivity technology with personalized car insurance. Ford is Metromile’s first agreement with a major...
