Most Popular Personal Auto Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Former UPS Driver Wins $238 Million Verdict in Suit Over Firing
Sep 16 2024 // A Black UPS driver won a $237.6 million jury verdict in a case in which he alleged he’d been discriminated against and subject to a hostile work environment before being fired. The verdict, rendered Thursday in the...
#2 Texas Lawsuit Alleges Allstate Illegally Collects Driver Data
Jan 13 2025 // The State of Texas on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate, alleging the insurance company illegally collects driver data through secretly embedded software in mobile apps and then uses the data to justify raising...
#3 Florida Officers Indicted for Shootout That Killed UPS Driver and Passerby
Jun 17 2024 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four Florida police officers have been indicted for manslaughter in connection with a 2019 shootout on a busy rush-hour street that left a hijacked UPS driver and a passerby in a nearby car...
#4 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...
#5 Progressive to Pay $48M to New York Drivers Over Underpaid Total Loss Claims
Jul 5 2024 // Progressive Insurance has agreed to a $48 million settlement with a class of 93,000 New York policyholders who claim the insurer underpaid their total loss claims on their vehicles. The $48 million represents approximately...
#6 ‘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...
#7 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...
#8 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...
#9 Class Action Accuses Toyota of Illegally Sharing Drivers’ Data With Progressive
Apr 23 2025 // A federal class action lawsuit filed this week in Texas accused Toyota and an affiliated telematics aggregator of unlawfully collecting drivers’ information and then selling that data to Progressive. The lawsuit...
#10 Uber Not Liable: Driver Was Not Logged in at Time of Accident, Florida Court Says
Jan 3 2025 // A Florida man may have been an occasional driver for Uber, the ride-hailing company, but he was not working at the time that he struck and killed his former girlfriend, and Uber is not liable for the wrongful death, a...
#11 Man Admits to Tracking Drivers, Programming Keys, Stealing and Reselling Vehicles
Jul 17 2024 // A New Jersey man has admitted to orchestrating a multistate car theft and fraud ring that involved tracking drivers, programming keys, stealing their cars, and reselling their vehicles. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger...
#12 New York City Weighs Slashing Cab Insurance 75% to $50,000 to Aid Drivers
Sep 27 2024 // The New York City Council will introduce legislation this week that would drastically reduce the amount of insurance coverage taxi and ride-share vehicles are required to maintain, looking to contain potential fallout from...
#13 Transit Driver Disabled Due to Overheated Cab Can Keep His $11.6 Million Award
Aug 5 2024 // A New Jersey Transit driver who suffered career-ending injuries from overheating after he was ordered to operate a train even though his cab’s temperature was 114 degrees can keep his $11.6 million jury award. Over...
#14 New Drivers and Electric-Vehicle Tech Bring New Risks to Auto Insurance Market
Jun 21 2024 // High claim severities, persistent risky driving behavior, electric vehicles and shop-and-swap consumers are challenging auto insurers to stay profitable. The challenges will continue through the end of the year and beyond,...
#15 Personal Auto Driving P/C Insurers to 2024 Underwriting Profit
Jul 23 2024 // S&P Global Market Intelligence is forecasting a combined ratio of 99.2 for the U.S. P/C insurance industry overall in 2024, signifying a return to underwriting profitability for the first time since 2021. According to...
#16 AM Best Improves Outlook on US Personal Auto Segment to ‘Stable’
Nov 25 2024 // Insurance rating agency AM Best today said it has shifted its outlook of the U.S. personal auto insurance segment to stable from negative thanks to improving loss ratios of the top 20 carriers this year. Underwriting...
#17 The Future Is Near for Self-Driving Trucks on US Roads
May 1 2024 // On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck’s sensors spotted a trash can blocking one lane and a tire in...
#18 Drunk Driver Who Killed 4 Crashing Into Nail Salon Was Going 78 mph, Say Prosecutors
Aug 6 2024 // The drunk driver who killed four people and injured nine more when he crashed his SUV into a Long Island nail salon was driving 78 mph (125 kph) at the time of the crash, prosecutors said Thursday as the driver pleaded not...
#19 Driver Charged With Killing Gaudreau Brothers Was Drunk: Prosecutor
Sep 17 2024 // The driver charged with killing NHL hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew as they bicycled on a rural road had a blood-alcohol level of .087, above the .08 legal limit in New Jersey, a prosecutor said...
#20 Court Nixes Workers’ Compensation for ‘Light Beer’ Drinking UPS Driver
Dec 11 2024 // A United Parcel Service (UPS) driver who was intoxicated when he crashed his semi-trailer delivery truck has been denied workers’ compensation benefits. Delaware Superior Court Judge Kathleen Vavala last week...
