Latest Commercial Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Commercial Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Progressive Drives Commercial Auto Into W.Va.
Mar 2 2006 // The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies has announced it is now offering commercial auto insurance in West Virginia. While Progressive’s commercial coverages are available directly to consumers by phone and over...
Md. Water Taxi Insurer Sues Coast Guard, Citing Too Many Passengers
Feb 21 2006 // Insurers for the company that ran the water taxi that capsized in the Inner Harbor, killing five people, sued the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, claiming the military branch certified the taxi for too many passengers. The...
SPECIAL REPORT: Commercial Auto
Feb 19 2006 // Unusual circumstances surround dropped sale of Universal Underwriters Most failed company mergers remain a secret, except to a handful of insiders. That was not the case with the collapsed attempt by Zurich Financial...
Special Report: Commercial Auto
Feb 19 2006 // Rental firms can take advantage of financial liability laws to limit their exposure Many car rental operators can save significant expenses and still protect their business by using non-traditional risk management...
Insurers Reduce Rates for D.C. Taxis Under 6-Month Policies
Feb 8 2006 // Insurance rates for taxicabs in the Distrcit of Columbia are being reduced as the result of a more competitive market sparked by a change in policy duration. Acting Commissioner Thomas Hampton of the District of Columbia...
RISC Launches New Commercial Auto Market in Okla.
Jan 16 2006 // RISC Inc. announced it is rolling out a new commercial auto market in Oklahoma. Coverage highlight include: –Service vehicles of all types –Waste disposal; salvage and recycling operations –Oil Lease...
Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market
Dec 5 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market
Dec 4 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Competition Increases in Commercial Auto, But Not Too Much–Yet
Nov 21 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...
Tracking Commercial Autos
Nov 21 2005 // Before you can finish saying “Beam me up, Scotty,” chances are a tiny transmitter is bouncing a signal off a satellite somewhere in space, indicating that your insured’s taxi is stowed in the hold of a...
Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?
Nov 21 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment actually could be a commercial vehicle, according to the insurance...
New Definitions: Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?
Nov 21 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment could be considered a commercial vehicle according to the insurance...
Torts Drive Commercial Auto in Heartland, Elsewhere
Nov 20 2005 // Insurers like writing commercial auto business, and most lines of business, in the Midwestern states because of market stability and a favorable legislative and regulatory climate. But even in this typically stable line of...
Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?
Nov 20 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment actually could be a commercial vehicle, according to the insurance...
New Definitions: Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?
Nov 20 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment could be considered a commercial vehicle according to the insurance...
Tracking
Nov 20 2005 // Autos Hi-Tech Gadgets Help Curb Losses Vendors of these types of high tech products strive to convince the insurance industry, and businesses that purchase commercial auto insurance for a wide variety of vehicles, that...
Top 25 Commercial Auto Writers
Nov 20 2005 // Company Name 2004* 2005** 12/31/2004 6/30/2005 State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. 964,544 159,665 St Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. 654,788 46,260 Zurich American Insurance Co. 630,760 170,012 Auto-Owners...
Competition Increases in Commercial Auto, But Not Too Much-Yet
Nov 20 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...
Aim for the Bull’s Eye: Focus on Market Characteristics Improves Programs
Jul 7 2005 // The following article was published in Insurance Journal’s July 4 issue focusing on Target Markets Program Administrators Association and the program marketplace. The value of specialization and target marketing in...
Aim for the Bull’s Eye: Focus on Market Characteristics Improves Programs
Jul 4 2005 // Drilling Down into a Market’s Data Unearths Insights Conventional Methods Miss The value of specialization and target marketing in improved insurance performance has been well proven over the past 15-plus years....
