Latest Commercial Auto Headlines

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RISC Launches New Commercial Auto Market in Okla.

Jan 16 2006 // RISC Inc. announced it is rolling out a new commercial auto market in Oklahoma. Coverage highlight include: –Service vehicles of all types –Waste disposal; salvage and recycling operations –Oil Lease...

Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market

Dec 5 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...

Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market

Dec 4 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...

Competition Increases in Commercial Auto, But Not Too Much–Yet

Nov 21 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...

Tracking Commercial Autos

Nov 21 2005 // Before you can finish saying “Beam me up, Scotty,” chances are a tiny transmitter is bouncing a signal off a satellite somewhere in space, indicating that your insured’s taxi is stowed in the hold of a...

Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?

Nov 21 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment actually could be a commercial vehicle, according to the insurance...

New Definitions: Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?

Nov 21 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment could be considered a commercial vehicle according to the insurance...

Torts Drive Commercial Auto in Heartland, Elsewhere

Nov 20 2005 // Insurers like writing commercial auto business, and most lines of business, in the Midwestern states because of market stability and a favorable legislative and regulatory climate. But even in this typically stable line of...

Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?

Nov 20 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment actually could be a commercial vehicle, according to the insurance...

New Definitions: Mobile Equipment or Commercial Auto?

Nov 20 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment could be considered a commercial vehicle according to the insurance...

Tracking

Nov 20 2005 // Autos Hi-Tech Gadgets Help Curb Losses Vendors of these types of high tech products strive to convince the insurance industry, and businesses that purchase commercial auto insurance for a wide variety of vehicles, that...

Top 25 Commercial Auto Writers

Nov 20 2005 // Company Name 2004* 2005** 12/31/2004 6/30/2005 State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. 964,544 159,665 St Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. 654,788 46,260 Zurich American Insurance Co. 630,760 170,012 Auto-Owners...

Competition Increases in Commercial Auto, But Not Too Much-Yet

Nov 20 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...

Aim for the Bull’s Eye: Focus on Market Characteristics Improves Programs

Jul 7 2005 // The following article was published in Insurance Journal’s July 4 issue focusing on Target Markets Program Administrators Association and the program marketplace. The value of specialization and target marketing in...

Aim for the Bull’s Eye: Focus on Market Characteristics Improves Programs

Jul 4 2005 // Drilling Down into a Market’s Data Unearths Insights Conventional Methods Miss The value of specialization and target marketing in improved insurance performance has been well proven over the past 15-plus years....

Public Auto

Apr 4 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Union General is offering a variety of programs to address public auto exposures. The program can handle accounts up to 10 units. Public auto classes include limo, day care, airport, and hotel shuttles...

Progressive Drives Into S.C. Commercial Auto Insurance Market; Signs 430 Agents

Mar 7 2005 // Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) has announced it will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance...

Ga. Commissioner Parks Agency Reportedly Selling Bogus Taxi and Limo Coverage

Mar 1 2005 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine announced Tuesday that he has issued a cease and desist order against Phoenix Brokerage Inc. and Main Street Brokerage Inc., both located in Barnesville, and arrested one of the...

COMMERCIAL AUTO RESULTS TAKE U-TURN

Jan 24 2005 // Commercial auto underwriting results took a U-turn in the right direction from 1999 to 2003, according to a new study by Conning Research and Consulting Inc. The study, Commercial Automobile Markets: Solid Sectors, Worthy...

RLI Opens Commercial Auto Unit

Dec 22 2004 // RLI Transportation, a division of RLI Insurance Company, has launched a commercial auto insurance unit. According to RLI Transportation President David Dunn, the new unit will write mono-line commercial auto business with...