Most Popular Auto Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Auto Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Industry Critiques Trump’s Auto Insurance Rate Data, Promise to Cut Premiums
Sep 19 2024 // A comment and promise made by former President Donald Trump on Tuesday received a lot of not-so-positive attention from the insurance industry. “Your Automobile Insurance is up 73% — VOTE FOR TRUMP, I’LL CUT...
#2 North Carolina Will Soon Have Some of the Highest Auto Liability Minimums
May 29 2024 // Starting next year, the minimum automobile liability coverage in North Carolina will jump significantly, thanks to a 2023 law that raised the minimum requirement for the first time in 25 years. Since 1999, North Carolina...
#3 Sentry Buys Nonstandard Auto Insurer The General From American Family for $1.7B
Sep 12 2024 // Sentry Insurance said it is buying nonstandard auto insurer The General from American Family Insurance for about $1.7 billion to mark the largest acquisition in the company’s 120-year history. Sentry will pay $1.1...
#4 Lemonade: 700K Customers on the Car Insurance Waitlist
Apr 2 2025 // While Allstate’s CEO Tom Wilson named GEICO and Progressive when asked about the ability to grow auto insurance in 2025 as competitors do the same, no one on Allstate or Progressive’s earning calls addressed...
#5 Allstate to ‘Lean Into’ Turnaround in Auto Business, and Grow
Feb 7 2025 // Allstate’s plan to correct its auto insurance business has “restored profitability back to target levels,” said the insurer’s head of personal insurance. During an earnings call with analysts, Mario...
#6 Personal Auto Insurance Could Be Obsolete in 20 Years: Morningstar
Sep 27 2024 // Self-driving cars could make personal auto insurance largely obsolete within 20 years, according to a worst-case scenario modeled by Morningstar. A more likely, moderate scenario forecasts the line could remain necessary...
#7 New York Fines GEICO $9.75M, Travelers $1.5M Over Auto Insurance Cyber Breaches
Nov 25 2024 // Two auto insurers will pay fines totaling $11.3 million for data breaches of online insurance quoting systems that New York officials say compromised personal information of an estimated 120,000 customers in total. New...
#8 ‘Baby Driver’ Actor Hudson Meek Remembered After Fall From Car in Alabama
Dec 30 2024 // VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said. Meek, 16, was hurt on Dec. 19 while on a street in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of...
#9 Blacks and Hispanics Pay More for Auto Insurance. Study Tries to Answer Why.
Nov 21 2024 // A new study examining potential unintentional bias in auto insurance finds that while Black and Hispanic drivers pay more than other drivers for coverage, they also have more claims and driving infractions. The...
#10 State Farm 2024 Underwriting Losses Shrink on Auto Results
Mar 3 2025 // After reporting underwriting losses of $13 billion in 2022 and $14 billion in 2023, State Farm recorded another underwriting loss for 2024—but narrowed it thanks to its auto insurance results. State Farm reported a 2024...
#11 BlackSuit Cybercrime Gang Blamed in CDK Hack That Roiled Car Dealers
Jun 25 2024 // A hacking group called BlackSuit is behind the cyberattack on CDK Global that’s paralyzed car sales across the US, according to Allan Liska, a threat analyst at the security firm Recorded Future Inc. The cybercrime...
#12 Columbia Insurance to Transfer Personal Auto, Umbrella Books to Safeco
Sep 26 2024 // Safeco Insurance, a Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance company, said it has entered into a book transfer agreement with Columbia Insurance Group, a Central and Midwest regional carrier. Under the agreement, mutual...
#13 New Auto Liability Minimums Take Effect This Year in North Carolina
Jan 15 2025 // This year, the minimum automobile liability coverage requirements in North Carolina will jump to 50/100/50, among the highest minimums in the country. The change is the result of Senate Bill 452, approved in 2023 and which...
#14 NYC Man Charged With Insurance Fraud in Staged Car Crash Captured By Dashcam
Nov 12 2024 // A New York City man has been charged with staging a car accident for insurance fraud purposes last month in a case that received wide publicity after the victim shared dashboard camera footage of the crash, authorities...
#15 Louisiana Lawmakers Pass Auto Insurance Reform Bills
Jun 17 2024 // Louisiana lawmakers passed a series of auto insurance reform bills that aim to bring availability and competition to the market by cutting down on excessive verdicts and settlements. Legislators passed four bills endorsed...
#16 US Auto Insurance Market on the Mend; Homeowners Line Volatile: Fitch
Jun 7 2024 // The U.S. personal insurance sector is positioned for improving underwriting performance in 2024. According to Fitch’s latest U.S. Personal Lines Market Update, the change is predicted amid signs that the previous...
#17 Car Dealerships Across US Halt Services After Cyberattack
Jun 20 2024 // Thousands of car dealerships were ground to a halt during a normally busy holiday Wednesday by a cyber incident at CDK Global, a major software provider for dealers across the US. The company “shut all systems down...
#18 Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California’s Electric Car Market
Apr 17 2025 // Tesla Inc. is no longer selling the majority of new electric cars registered in California, the state that accounts for almost a third of all zero-emission vehicle purchases in the US. The company’s share of EV sales...
#19 Car Prices Expected to Surge on Trump’s New Tariffs
Mar 4 2025 // Impending tariffs on Canada and Mexico risk driving up US car prices by as much as $12,000, further squeezing consumers and wreaking havoc across the intricate web of automotive supply lines spanning the continent. The...
#20 GM, Ford Fall on Trump Tariffs Seen Adding $3,000 to Car Prices
Nov 27 2024 // Shares of US automakers tumbled on worries that a new round of tariffs imposed by President-elect Donald Trump will cause sticker prices to soar even further. Trump said that he would impose additional 10% levies on goods...
