Latest Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurers’ Backing Sought for Car Key That Jams Teen Drivers’ Cell Phones
Dec 12 2008 // University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving. The inventors are hoping the insurance industry will back...
Hawaii Compares Auto Insurance Rates, Carriers’ Complaint Ratios
Dec 9 2008 // The Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Insurance Division has published motor vehicle insurance premium comparisons for all islands, as well as published customer complaint ratios for carriers in the...
Truck Drivers Teach West Virginia Teens About Road Safety
Dec 9 2008 // Professional truck drivers will be in West Virginia this week demonstrating to teens how to avoid accidents with tractor-trailers. Share the Road is an outreach program of the American Trucking Association that educates...
Five Tow-Truck Workers Arrested in Alleged New Jersey Theft Ring
Dec 9 2008 // Five workers at a north Jersey tow truck company face charges they took cash to steal cars and report them as stolen to insurance companies. North Bergen police say an owner of High Point Towing, which operates in Union...
New Federal Safety Rules Target Medically Unfit Truck, Bus Drivers
Dec 4 2008 // Federal safety regulators have begun taking steps to get medically unfit truck drivers and bus operators off the road. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says it will require states to merge commerical truck...
Car Thieves Work Year Round, Even on Holidays, Warns Crime Bureau
Dec 4 2008 // The good news is that of all the days in the year, a car is least likely to be stolen on Christmas Day. The bad news is that car thieves never take a holiday. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB),...
Louisiana Regulators Take Auto Theft Awareness to Public Schools
Dec 4 2008 // The Department of Insurance Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (LATIFPA) has been conducting presentations at middle schools in Bossier City, Benton and Plain Dealing on Auto Theft...
Premium Rating Errors Cost Auto Insurers $16 Billion, Report Claims
Dec 4 2008 // Premium rating errors by insurance companies resulted in the loss of $16.1 billion of auto insurance premium revenues in 2007, slightly down from the 2006 figure of $16.6 billion — but still almost 10 percent of the...
Louisiana Revises Online Auto, Homeowners Comparison Rate Guides
Dec 2 2008 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced revised online auto and homeowners rate comparison guides are now available for viewing on the Department of Insurance Web site at www.ldi.state.la.us. “The...
Ohio Director Warns Consumers About Auto Insurance Phone Scam
Dec 2 2008 // The Ohio Department of Insurance recently issued a warning about a telephone scam targeting auto insurance customers. Department Director Mary Jo Hudson said on Dec. 1 that victims are receiving calls saying their...
Texas Supreme Court Considers Auto Policy Exclusions Case
Dec 1 2008 // The Texas Supreme Court must decide if an Ohio insurance company should pay in the case of a boy injured by a driver who was speeding away from police. Richard Gibbons was evading San Marcos, Texas, police in 1999 when his...
Massachusetts Court Says Livery Firm Liable in Fatal Crash
Dec 1 2008 // A livery company and its driver could be held liable in a fatal car accident caused by a drunken passenger after he left the livery van, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled. The Supreme Judicial Court found that...
Declarations
Nov 30 2008 // Obama on Climate, Jobs “My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process.” —A Reuters...
Ex-Pennsylvania Judge Found Guilty of Insurance Fraud
Nov 30 2008 // A retired Pennsylvania appellate judge was convicted of mail fraud and money laundering after prosecutors said he lied about neck and back injuries in a fender bender to collect $440,000 from two insurance...
FTC Blocks Merger of Insurance Loss Vendors CCC Information, Mitchell
Nov 25 2008 // The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit to block the merger of CCC Information Services Inc. and Mitchell International Inc., charging that the merger would hinder competition in the market for electronic systems used...
Ex-Pennsylvania Judge Found Guilty of Insurance Fraud
Nov 21 2008 // A retired Pennsylvania appellate judge was convicted of mail fraud and money laundering after prosecutors said he lied about neck and back injuries in a fender bender to collect $440,000 from two insurance...
Safeco, America First Insurance Announce Central Region Leaders
Nov 21 2008 // Safeco Insurance and America First Insurance, both Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies, announced key management appointments in personal and commercial lines operations for the central United States region. Richard E....
Massachusetts AG Wants Hearing on Insurance Company’s Auto Rates
Nov 21 2008 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has asked the Division of Insurance to initiate an administrative rate proceeding to review the new auto insurance rates of Premier Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Travelers...
Best, S&P Affirm State Auto Ratings Following Rockhill Agreement
Nov 20 2008 // Both A.M. Best Co. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services have affirmed their respective ratings on the State Auto Group of Companies, which are in turn the operating divisions of State Auto Financial...
Safeco and Colorado Casualty Announce New Mountain Region Operations
Nov 19 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Colorado Casualty, both Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies, announced key management appointments to lead their respective personal and commercial lines operations in their Mountain...
