Latest Commercial Auto Headlines

All the headlines from our Commercial Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.

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....

Public Auto

Apr 4 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Union General is offering a variety of programs to address public auto exposures. The program can handle accounts up to 10 units. Public auto classes include limo, day care, airport, and hotel shuttles...

Progressive Drives Into S.C. Commercial Auto Insurance Market; Signs 430 Agents

Mar 7 2005 // Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) has announced it will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance...

Ga. Commissioner Parks Agency Reportedly Selling Bogus Taxi and Limo Coverage

Mar 1 2005 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine announced Tuesday that he has issued a cease and desist order against Phoenix Brokerage Inc. and Main Street Brokerage Inc., both located in Barnesville, and arrested one of the...

COMMERCIAL AUTO RESULTS TAKE U-TURN

Jan 24 2005 // Commercial auto underwriting results took a U-turn in the right direction from 1999 to 2003, according to a new study by Conning Research and Consulting Inc. The study, Commercial Automobile Markets: Solid Sectors, Worthy...

RLI Opens Commercial Auto Unit

Dec 22 2004 // RLI Transportation, a division of RLI Insurance Company, has launched a commercial auto insurance unit. According to RLI Transportation President David Dunn, the new unit will write mono-line commercial auto business with...

Loss Ratios Improve in 45 States Nationwide

Nov 22 2004 // The commercial auto market went through some tough times. After years of deteriorating loss ratios, things have definitely turned around. What does this mean for the marketplace? In some cases, prices have started to...

Progressive Now Offering Commercial Auto in N.H.

Oct 22 2004 // As previously reported by Insurance Journal, The Progressive group of companies has begun offering commercial auto coverages in New Hampshire through more than 200 agents. The product is being marketing under its new Drive...

Mass. Approves Commercial Auto Market Reforms

Sep 20 2004 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved plans to implement a limited servicing carrier program for the state’s commercial auto residual market as proposed by Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers...

Commercial Auto

Aug 9 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services (BTIS) announced a new online commercial auto program intended for up to four vehicles with a maximum GVW of 45,000 lbs. Classes of business include...

Commercial Auto/Truck Physical Damage

Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Safety Net Insurance Marketing Corporation is offering a new commercial auto/truck physical damage and high value, substandard private passenger physical damage program. Dollars: Up to $1 million...