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Arizona City’s Pedestrian Safety Effort Fails
Apr 26 2019 // Phoenix, Ariz. officials failed to advance an effort that aimed to reduce pedestrian deaths by improving street safety in the city. The Phoenix City Council voted 4-4 this week on the motion to direct city staff to develop...
Arizona Becomes 48th State with Cellphone-Driving Law
Apr 25 2019 // Arizona ended a decade of resistance to restrictions on using a cellphone while driving when Gov. Doug Ducey signed a law this week outlawing holding a phone behind the wheel. It is now the 48th state to ban texting and...
Cops Draw Blood to Catch Impaired Drivers
Apr 23 2019 // It was about 6:30 on a Friday night in January when Phoenix Police Det. Kemp Layden pulled over a white Jeep Cherokee that was speeding and weaving in and out of its lane. The 47-year-old driver spoke slowly, his eyes were...
Strong Tower in Arizona Names Anderson Vice President of Personal Lines
Apr 16 2019 // Strong Tower Insurance Group in Arizona has named Aaron A. Anderson vice president of personal lines. He was previously with American National as an agency development manager. He was a district sales manager for American...
Americans Still Don’t Trust Autonomous Vehicles, Reuters Poll Shows
Apr 15 2019 // Half of U.S. adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than traditional vehicles operated by people, while nearly two-thirds said they would not buy a fully autonomous vehicle, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos...
Uber, Before IPO, Joins Others in Adjusting Timeline for Driverless Cars
Apr 9 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. expects it will be a long time before one of its biggest investments, self-driving cars, is ready for wide-scale deployment, a senior scientist said on Monday, as the ride-sharing firm gears up to go...
Fixing Errors in Autonomous Cars’ Perceptions Before They Hit the Road
Apr 5 2019 // It’s a big question for many people in traffic-dense cities like Los Angeles: When will self-driving cars arrive? But following a series of high-profile accidents in the United States, safety issues could bring the...
Arizona Man Another Death Linked to Faulty Takata Air Bag
Apr 3 2019 // An Arizona man who died from injuries sustained in a crash three months after purchasing a used Honda Civic has become the 16th fatality in the U.S. linked to defective air bags at the center of one of the biggest...
Marsh & McLennan Agency Acquires Lovitt & Touché in Arizona
Apr 2 2019 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC has acquired Phoenix, Ariz.-based Lovitt & Touché. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Charlie Touché, Lovitt & Touché CEO since 1998, will lead MMA’s operations in...
Americans Still Don’t Trust Autonomous Vehicles: Reuters/Ipsos Poll
Apr 2 2019 // Half of U.S. adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than traditional vehicles operated by people, while nearly two-thirds said they would not buy a fully autonomous vehicle, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos...
Arizona Names Insurance Department Head to Second Agency
Mar 20 2019 // Gov. Doug Ducey has chosen the head of the state’s insurance department to also serve as interim director of Arizona’s financial institutions agency while the two are consolidated. Keith Schraad has directed...
No Criminal Liability for Uber in Fatal 2018 Arizona Self-Driving Car Crash
Mar 18 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Ariz., in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said earlier this month. The Yavapai...
No Criminal Liability for Uber in Fatal 2018 Arizona Self-Driving Car Crash
Mar 6 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Yavapai County...
700K State Farm Customers in Arizona Getting 3% Auto Insurance Rate Cut
Mar 1 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is dropping its overall personal auto insurance rate by 3 percent in Arizona. The total state-wide expected impact for State Farm Mutual by this rate decrease in Arizona will be...
Data Breach in Arizona Hits Restaurants, Hotels
Feb 20 2019 // A data breach may have compromised the personal information of customers who patronized any of 50 Arizona businesses last month. North Country Business Products says an investigation of “suspicious activity”...
CREST Insurance Group in Arizona Names Welch Vice President
Feb 19 2019 // CREST Insurance Group LLC in Arizona has named Lindsay Welch vice president of community relations and business development. She will be responsible for managing Crest’s philanthropic involvement and brand...
5 Reasons Autonomous Cars Won’t Be Available Anytime Soon
Feb 18 2019 // In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when they might actually be seen carrying passengers in every...
Relatives of Woman Killed in Arizona Uber Crash File $10M Claim
Feb 4 2019 // Two relatives of a woman killed when she was struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle have filed a $10 million claim against the Phoenix, Ariz. suburb where the incident occurred in March. The Arizona Republic reported the...
CopperPoint in Arizona Names Rachel Davis-Schultz SVP, Chief Human Resources Officer
Jan 23 2019 // Phoenix, Ariz.,-based CopperPoint Insurance Cos. has named Rachel Davis-Schultz senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Rachel has more than 21 years of experience. For the past 10 years, she has been with...
Western Region Could See Action on Disaster Mitigation, Independent Contractors, Workers’ Comp
Jan 7 2019 // Most eyeballs were on California during the midterm elections in November, with polar opposite candidates facing off in the race for governor as well as the office of insurance commissioner. As in most years, Democrats...
