Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Truck Driver Charged in $78,500 Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 7 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory Serio, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, and New York State Workers’ Compensation Fraud Inspector General John Burgher Jr., announced that a truck...
Coalition Says N.J. Drivers Have Fewer Choices
Feb 27 2003 // New Jersey’s insurance crisis reportedly took yet another turn for the worse Wednesday when the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance allowed New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Group, the state’s...
SODA DRIVER PLEADS GUILTY
Feb 24 2003 // Armando M. Villesca Sr. of Fort Stockton, Texas, pleaded guilty to charges of workers’ compensation fraud in a Travis County District Court. Texas Mutual Insurance Company said the court ordered Villesca to submit to...
Soda Delivery Driver Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 14 2003 // Armando M. Villesca Sr. of Fort Stockton, Texas, pleaded guilty to charges of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Travis County District Court judge ordered Villesca to submit to three years of community...
ITC Adds Undisclosed Driver Database to Comparative Rater in Texas
Jan 31 2003 // Carrollton, Texas-based Insurance Technologies Corporation, a provider of new business rating products for personal lines agencies and insurance companies, announced the addition of an undisclosed driver database to its...
Truck Drivers Arrested for WC Fraud
Jan 27 2003 // Gerald Boiner, 30, of Rancho Cuca-monga, Calif., was arrested Nov. 12, 2002 by CDI Fraud Investigators. Boiner alleged that he injured his back and wrist on Aug. 7, 2001, from an on-the-job fall. As a result of the pain he...
Calif. DMV Revokes Allstate’s Electronic Access to Confidential Driver Records; Garamendi Supports Decision
Jan 17 2003 // The California Department of Motor Vehicles has revoked Allstate Insurance Company’s electronic access to confidential driver license and vehicle registration information, because the company reportedly failed to...
NAII Supports N.H. Supreme Court Reversal of Uninsured Driver Ruling
Jan 13 2003 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court recently reversed a lower court ruling that permitted compensation under uninsured motorist coverage to an employee who was injured by a co-worker while both were on the job. “The...
AAA Michigan Supports Federal Crackdown on Impaired Drivers
Dec 19 2002 // Michigan’s AAA issued a statement supporting tough new measures against drunk driving contained in the current “You Drink and Drive. You Lose” campaign described at a press conference held in Washington...
IIAANY Survey Shows Shrinking Commercial, Personal Capacity
Dec 9 2002 // Results of a recent survey conducted by the Independent Insurance Agent Association of New York Inc. (IIAANY) indicate a continuing decrease in availability of both personal and commercial insurance coverages in the state,...
Michigan AAA Warns on Distracted Driving
Dec 3 2002 // Michigan’s AAA organization took issue with a just released study by Harvard University’s Center for Risk Analysis, that seemed to imply there were some benefits to be derived from the use of cell phones. Not...
Truck Drivers Arrested for WC Fraud
Nov 20 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of two truck drivers this week. Both cases are being prosecuted by the...
2001 Market Share For Insurers in Texas
Oct 14 2002 // The 2001 premium and loss data for Texas verifies everything you heard from the insurance companies — it was a really bad year. Here are the highlights in review: • Texas accounts for 7 percent of the national premium...
Big Rig Driver Collects on False WC Claim
Sep 30 2002 // Truck driver Ovidio Ochoa, 43, of Hesperia, Calif., was arrested recently by CDI investigators. The San Bernardino County Superior Court issued a felony warrant on Aug. 6, 2002 charging Ochoa with six counts of giving...
Non-Standard Personal Auto
Sep 26 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. is offering a non-standard personal automobile insurance program for select producers through its personal lines division. Dollars: BIPD limits available up to...
AAI Says Economic Factors Driving P&C Rates; Urges Regulators to Resist Rush to Regulate
Sep 10 2002 // Economic factors such as rapidly increasing claims costs are driving the increase in insurance premiums, according to the Alliance of American Insurers. “As the insurance industry recovers from its disastrous results...
Palisades Acquires N.J. Auto Lines from American Financial, The Hartford
Sep 10 2002 // Subsidiaries of American Financial Group Inc. and The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced transfers of their New Jersey personal auto businesses to units of Palisades. American Financial subsidiary Great...
Vt. First State to Implement Statewide Multimedia, Impaired Driver Ed Program
Aug 22 2002 // During the 2002-2003 school year, Vermont driver education teachers and students will be introduced to Crash Site™, a state-of-the art, interactive CD-ROM program designed to help teens understand the consequences of...
AIA Says Inaccurate Motor Vehicle Records Increase Premiums for Good Drivers, Jeopardize Highway Saf
Jul 2 2002 // Inaccurate, incomplete motor vehicles records (MVRs) not only compromise highway safety and force good drivers to subsidize bad drivers, they also cause insurers to rely on other methods to fully assess individual driver...
Federal Driver License Standards Possible Asset for Auto Insurers
Jun 17 2002 // In addition to being a key element in national security, federal driver’s license standards being considered in Congress could have profound effects on auto insurance, according to the National Association of...
