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2 Injured in Explosion at Western Iowa Gas Station, Auto Shop
Apr 29 2020 // Two men who were inside a western Iowa gas station and auto repair shop when it was leveled by an explosion are expected to recover from their injuries. Dan Grote, co-owner of Earling Standard Shop, received stitches for...
Auto Insurers Will Return Approximately $32M in Premiums to N.H. Consumers
Apr 27 2020 // At least 23 companies selling auto insurance in New Hampshire are returning premium to their policyholders, New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Chris Nicolopoulos announced. These companies represent more than 90% of the...
The Concord Group Announces Plan to Return $2.4M to Policyholders During Pandemic
Apr 24 2020 // The Concord Group Insurance Companies has announced a plan to deliver $2,400,000 in return premium and expand several underwriting guidelines and coverage limits to its more than 150,000 policyholders throughout the four...
Some Auto Insurer Premium Discounts Should Be Bigger, Say Consumer Groups
Apr 24 2020 // Two consumer groups said on Thursday that some of the largest U.S. auto insurers, including billionaire Warren Buffett’s Geico Corp., are short-changing customers on premium rebates as Americans drive less due to...
Insurance Premium Discounts, Other Relief Offered During Coronavirus Crisis
Apr 24 2020 // The group of property/casualty insurers offering auto insurance premium discounts to recognize that insureds are driving less during the coronavirus crisis continues to grow, and now includes all major auto insurers. Most...
State Auto, Rural Mutual Unveil Auto Insurance Policyholder Relief Plans
Apr 23 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies (State Auto) and Rural Mutual Insurance Co., headquartered in Madison, Wis., have announced plans to offer auto insurance policyholders with premium relief as a result of...
Preferred Mutual Launches Relief Program for Auto Customers During Pandemic
Apr 23 2020 // Preferred Mutual Insurance Company has announced its Stay Home, Stay Assured Auto Program, which will provide more than 65,000 customers with a 15% credit on their April and May personal auto insurance premiums. The credit...
Putting Autonomous Driving Back on the Road: Roundtable
Apr 22 2020 // The self-driving car was a dream deferred even before the Covid-19 outbreak brought the U.S. economy to a standstill. By early 2020, plans to launch robotaxi services had been pushed back or scaled down as excitement over...
Pennsylvania’s Erie Insurance Announces $200M in Relief for Customers
Apr 22 2020 // Erie Insurance, based in Erie, Penn., will provide $200 million in dividends directly to personal and commercial auto insurance customers in the 12 states and the District of Columbia where the company does business. This...
North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance to Give Insureds 20% Dividend on Auto Premiums
Apr 22 2020 // North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance will provide a 20% dividend payment to its automobile policyholders for April and May 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company announced the “Here for You...
More Midwest Insurers Offering Auto Premium Relief to Insureds
Apr 20 2020 // More Midwest-based insurers are offering premium payment relief to their auto insurance customers as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis. Branch Insurance, Grange Insurance, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Ohio Mutual...
Mass. Attorney General Calls on Division of Insurance to Lower Auto Premiums
Apr 17 2020 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office has called on the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) to direct all auto insurance companies doing business in the state to lower premiums during the...
New York’s NYCM Insurance Announces Credit to Auto Policyholders
Apr 17 2020 // NYCM Insurance will be issuing a credit to its approximately 230,000 auto policyholders. All auto policyholders as of April 30, 2020, will receive a 15% credit back from their April and May premiums. Customers will not...
Insurance Department: Auto Insurers to Return Over $187M to Louisiana Drivers
Apr 16 2020 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance says collectively auto insurers will return more than $187 million in premium to drivers in the state in the form of refunds and rebates on auto insurance policies. Insurance...
Analysts See Auto Insurers’ Coronavirus Rebates As a Solid Short-Term Move
Apr 16 2020 // Auto insurers have seen something new with the coronavirus pandemic: an historic reduction in driving due to millions of customers staying home and sheltering in place. That change led to carriers issuing between $8...
Utica National Provides Insurance Premium Payback to Personal Auto Customers
Apr 16 2020 // As a result of changing driving habits due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the member companies of the Utica National Insurance Group have announced that they will provide policyholders with a 15 percent payback of their...
Massachusetts’ Safety Insurance to Reduce Auto Premiums During COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 15 2020 // Safety Insurance has announced a premium reduction plan and several other steps to meet policyholder and community needs during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Safety Personal Auto Relief Credit offers eligible Safety...
Insurance Australia Group, AMMB Seek to Sell Their Malaysian Auto Insurer: Sources
Apr 15 2020 // The owners of AmGeneral Insurance Bhd., Malaysia’s second-biggest auto insurer, have restarted a sale process and are seeking as much as $1 billion for the company, people with knowledge of the matter said. Kuala...
Farm Bureau Insurance of Tennessee to Distribute $30M to Policyholders
Apr 15 2020 // Farm Bureau Insurance of Tennessee said it will issue $30 million in special payments to its auto policyholders in the state in response to economic stresses caused by the coronavirus emergency. The special payment is...
NIA Adds Reimbursement Coverage for Nonprofit Employee Auto Claims in California
Apr 15 2020 // Nonprofits Insurance Alliance (NIA), a nationwide insurer exclusively serving 501(c)(3) nonprofits, has introduced auto coverage that reimburses California nonprofits for payments made to their employees for auto physical...
