Latest Trucking Headlines
All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
LLOYD’S INVESTIGATES BOGUS UMBRELLA TRUCKING POLICIES:
Jul 5 2004 // Lloyd’s America has revealed exclusively to Insurance Journal that an investigation is currently underway for allegedly bogus umbrella trucking liability policies reportedly placed through the Oakland, Calif.-based...
Lloyd’s Investigates Bogus Umbrella Trucking Policies
Jun 23 2004 // Lloyd’s America has revealed exclusively to Insurance Journal that an investigation is currently underway for allegedly bogus umbrella trucking liability policies reportedly placed through the Oakland, Calif.-based...
AIMU REVISES CARGO CLAUSES:
Jun 21 2004 // The American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU) revised the association’s cargo clauses for the first time since 1966. AIMU chairman David French said the revisions would make the forms more consistent with...
Motor Truck Cargo
Jun 21 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Safety Net Insurance Marketing Corp. announced the availability of new motor truck cargo facility to their organization. Coverage is available for owner-operators, short, intermediate and long haulers....
Supreme Court Ruling Paves the Way for NAFTA
Jun 21 2004 // The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed to overturn a lower court ruling that had required the U.S. Department of Transportation to undertake an environmental impact study under the Clean Air Act before opening the...
PCI Calls Safety Rule Enforcement Most Important Concern after NAFTA Trucking Decision
Jun 10 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has issued a comment on the recent unanimous decision by the Supreme Court to allow Mexican trucks to use U.S. highways (See IJ Web site June 7). The PCI said the...
MARINE UNDERWRITERS ASSOCIATION REVISES CARGO CLAUSES:
Jun 7 2004 // The American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU) has revised the association’s cargo clauses for the first time since 1966. AIMU chairman David French said the revisions would make the forms more consistent with...
Motor Truck Cargo, Non-Trucking Automobile Liability and/or Truckers General Liability
Jun 7 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: National Advantage Insurance Services Inc. announced new programs for motor truck cargo, non-trucking automobile liability and/or truckers general liability. California brokers can write just one, any...
The Hartford Enhances Legal Liability Coverage for Motor Truck Cargo
Jun 3 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has broadened and simplified its carrier-for-hire cargo coverage, which addresses a trucker’s legal liability when carrying cargo under contract. The Hartford’s newest...
AIMU Board Backs Revisions to Cargo Clauses
May 25 2004 // The American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU) has revised the association’s Cargo Clauses for the first time since 1966. AIMU chairman David French said the revisions would make the forms more consistent with...
Marine Underwriters Association Revises Cargo Clauses; First Revision in 38 Years
May 24 2004 // The American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU) has revised the association’s cargo clauses for the first time since 1966. AIMU chairman David French said the revisions would make the forms more consistent with...
BLS Reports Texas Truckers Lead Lone Star State’s Accident Statistics
Mar 30 2004 // Texas truck drivers recorded the largest number of occupational incidents during 2002, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. The BLS (www.stats.bls.gov/)...
Commercial Trucking
Mar 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. is offering a new market for commercial trucking. Dollars: Policy limits of up to $1million CSL; minimum premium of $1,000. Carrier: Old American County Mutual...
HBA Insurance Group Forms Trucking Industry Insurer
Feb 9 2004 // Florida-based HBA Insurance Group (www.hbains.com) announced the creation of a new insurance agency to serve South Florida’s trucking industry. Truck Owners Insurance Alliance LLC recently began operating from...
No Brake Yet for Personal & Commercial Auto
Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...
Travelers Unveils New Web-Based Ocean Cargo Certificate Capability
Feb 3 2004 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. will now provide Web-based ability to create and print Ocean Cargo Certificates of Insurance to its Ocean Cargo policyholders and their agents. In addition to the anywhere, anytime...
Great American to Set Sail with Oceanwide’s Online Cargo Insurance
Jan 22 2004 // Cincinnati-based Great American Insurance Group has licensed Oceanwide’s (www.oceanwide.com) Genoa Cargo Insurance management platform to handle web-based processing and issuance of electronic insurance...
New ART Insurer Formed for Trucking Companies
Jan 14 2004 // Intermodal Insurance Co., a Federal Risk Retention Group, recently began providing commercial truck liability coverage. The new insurer has been established by five founding companies engaged in the local cartage of...
The Hartford Making Ocean Cargo Safer for Businesses
Dec 5 2003 // The exploits of pirates are exciting on the movie screen, but not much fun for the business owner whose ocean-bound goods they took as booty. Today the threat of swashbuckling men with an eye-patch and a parrot on the...
9 Programs That May Just Fit the Bill
Dec 1 2003 // The December 2002 Insurance Journal “program directory” issue highlighted eight programs that the editorial staff considered to be unique, interesting or tough to find. This year we’ve added one more to...
