Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Car Crashes Into Detroit-Area Airport Ticket Counter, Injuring 6
Jan 26 2026 // A car crashed through the entrance of the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Friday evening, striking a ticket counter and injuring six people, airport officials said. The driver was taken into custody, the Wayne...
AI-Driven Threats Driving Spending Plans: AXIS
Jan 26 2026 // Nearly 82% of executives surveyed by AXIS Capital Holdings Limited said their organizations plan to increase their cybersecurity budgets over the next 12 months, while 75.2% said they are likely to reduce cybersecurity...
Chicago Tow Truck Driver Charged Over Vehicle Thefts
Jan 22 2026 // Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul last week announced that his office charged a Chicago man over his role in the thefts of multiple vehicles while he was working for the city of Chicago in the Department of Streets and...
Tesla Gets 5-Week Extension in Probe of Full Self-Driving Traffic Violations
Jan 16 2026 // U.S. auto safety regulators have granted Tesla a five-week extension to respond to an investigation into whether its vehicles violated traffic laws while the Elon Musk-led company’s Full Self-Driving system was...
DoorDash, Uber Cost Drivers $550 Million in Tips, NYC Says
Jan 16 2026 // DoorDash Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. have deprived New York delivery workers of more than $550 million in tips after changing the interfaces on their apps, according to findings released in a report from a city...
Immigration Officers Descend on Meta Data Center, Arrest Drivers
Jan 15 2026 // Federal immigration officers targeted a construction site in rural Louisiana where Meta Platforms Inc. is building its largest data center, leading to the arrest of two individuals, according to local law enforcement. US...
Driver Fails to Back Up Claim That Tesla Touchscreen Defect Caused Accident
Jan 15 2026 // Vehicle manufacturer Tesla has won dismissal of a product liability lawsuit claiming that a defective touchscreen in a 2021 Tesla caused an accident. Judge Nelson Roman in federal district court in New York granted Tesla...
Drones Hit Two Tankers in Black Sea, Driving Up War Insurance Costs
Jan 14 2026 // Drones struck two oil tankers in the Black Sea on Tuesday, including one chartered by U.S. oil major Chevron, the companies involved said, as they sailed toward a terminal on the Russian coast. Both were en route to the...
Rideshare Drivers Protest Robotaxis as California Considers More Regulations
Jan 12 2026 // Drivers for Lyft and Uber protested self-driving Waymo taxis in San Francisco on Friday, urging state regulators to exercise greater oversight of autonomous vehicles, given recent events in which the cars killed pets and...
Progressive Approved for Personal Auto Rate Decreases in Louisiana
Jan 8 2026 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved Progressive Security Insurance Company’s request for a 6.6% average rate decrease on its over 270,000 private passenger auto insurance policyholders and...
Europe Saw Record Surge in Renewable Output, Driving Below-Zero Power Prices in 2025
Jan 5 2026 // Surging renewable output overwhelmed Europe’s power grid in 2025, driving electricity prices below zero more often than ever before. Negative power prices are underscoring how rapid growth in renewable generation is...
New Laws Impacting California Drivers in 2026
Dec 31 2025 // New laws affecting California drivers set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026, include stricter laws for drunk driving, speeding in school zones and automated traffic camera enforcement. The California Department of Motor...
Colorado Faces $24M Funding Cut for Illegal Commercial Driver’s Licenses
Dec 30 2025 // The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation threatened to withhold $24 million in federal funding from the state of Colorado for what he described as a slow response to a major violation of federal commercial...
Judge Green Lights New York’s Driver’s License Law, Rejecting Trump Challenge
Dec 29 2025 // A federal judge gave a green light Tuesday to New York’s so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to stop the state from giving people driver’s licenses without having them...
50% Rule: TN Supreme Court Finds Driver Due Knee Replacement Despite Arthritis
Dec 23 2025 // It’s an age-old question that continues to come up for workers’ compensation insurers around the country: When is an injury an aggravation of an existing condition, and when is it compensable, perhaps requiring...
Cessna Jet Tied to Nascar Driver Greg Biffle Crashes in North Carolina
Dec 19 2025 // Former Nascar driver Greg Biffle and his family are believed to have died when their Cessna Citation corporate jet crashed just minutes after taking off from a regional airport in North Carolina. “Although the...
New York Says It Follows Federal Rules on Commercial Driver’s Licenses for Immigrants
Dec 17 2025 // New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary...
Agency Probes Reports Waymo Self-Driving Cars Illegally Passed School Buses in Texas
Dec 5 2025 // A U.S. agency said on Thursday it has asked Waymo to answer more questions after Texas officials said the Alphabet GOOGL.O unit’s self-driving vehicles had illegally passed school buses 19 times in recorded incidents...
Four Convicted of Collision Fraud Involving a Rideshare Driver in California
Dec 3 2025 // Four people were convicted of felony insurance fraud and assault for faking an auto collision that involved a rideshare driver in San Bernardino, California. According to the California Department of Insurance, two of the...
Why Maine Opposes New Limits on Truck Driver’s Licenses for Legal Immigrants
Dec 3 2025 // The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) has joined the opposition to a federal rule that limits which legal immigrants can obtain a commercial driver’s license (CDL) or permit. The state says that if the new...
