Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Laws Vary on Driving Distractions
May 23 2005 // New Hampshire is the only state that doesn’t require adult motorists to wear seat belts, but it does ticket drivers for eating, drinking, talking on a cell phone or fussing with their makeup while behind the...
SAFE DRIVER PLAN REVISED:
May 23 2005 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julie M. Bowler has approved changes in the way drivers receive discounts and surcharges to their auto insurance policies based on their driving history. The revised Safe Driver...
State Laws Vary on Driving Distractions
May 23 2005 // New Hampshire is the only state that doesn’t require adult motorists to wear seat belts, but it does ticket drivers for eating, drinking, talking on a cell phone or fussing with their makeup while behind the...
AIA Commends Senators’ Sponsorship of Federal Teen Driver Licensing Bill
May 23 2005 // The American Insurance Association commended Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut) and Sen. John Warner (R-Virginia) for their sponsorship of S. 795, the National Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) Incentive Grant Program. A...
AIA: Massachusetts Drivers Need a Competitive Auto Insurance Market
May 16 2005 // An auto insurance market where companies can compete on the prices charged and the products provided would benefit Massachusetts drivers, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). AIA testified Monday at the...
Ignition Interlock Bill for Drivers Passes Okla. House
May 11 2005 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives approved legislation that would require repeat drunken drivers to have alcohol detection devices installed in their vehicles before they could regain their driver’s licenses, the...
Mass. Commissioner Bowler Approves Safe Driver Plan Revisions; Plan Starts in 2006
May 2 2005 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julie M. Bowler has approved changes in the way drivers receive discounts and surcharges to their auto insurance policies based on their driving history beginning in 2006. The revised...
New Jersey Court: Drunk Driver Can Collect Medical Benefits
Apr 14 2005 // In a decision that could affect auto insurance policies for millions of New Jersey drivers, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday that a drunken driver can still collect medical expenses from her carrier. A provision in an...
Medical Costs Driving Mass. Workers’ Comp
Apr 8 2005 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Massachusetts grew rapidly in the two most recent years, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The major factor driving these costs...
States Try Narrow and Broad Approaches to Curbing Driving Distractions
Apr 4 2005 // New Hampshire is the only state that doesn’t require adult motorists to wear seat belts, but it does ticket drivers for eating, drinking, talking on a cell phone or fussing with their makeup while behind the...
Valuation Drivers
Apr 4 2005 // For an insurance agency there are just a few critical valuation drivers necessary to build up the value of the firm. Although they are easy to identify, they are not always easy to turn around. The following is a summary...
Driving Up Agency Valuation
Apr 4 2005 // Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? There is a general perception that agency value has been increasing the past few years. This belief is partially true and is the result of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In the past...
DRUNK DRIVING LEGISLATION
Apr 4 2005 // Legislation that would require repeat drunken drivers to have alcohol detection devices installed in their vehicles before they could regain their driver’s licenses cleared the Oklahoma House and awaits action in the...
From Detroit and Philly to Chattanooga and Roanoke, City Drivers Pay More or Less
Apr 1 2005 // Average annual insurance premiums vary from nearly $5,200 in Detroit, Michigan to under $760 in Roanoke, Virginia, according to the latest analysis by Runzheimer International, the Rochester, Wisconsin-based vehicle...
Drunk Driving Legislation Advances in Okla.
Mar 28 2005 // Legislation that would require repeat drunken drivers to have alcohol detection devices installed in their vehicles before they could regain their driver’s licenses has cleared the House and now awaits action in the...
In Conn., Bad Driver Retraining Called a ‘Joke’
Mar 24 2005 // Connecticut officials are alarmed at the high recidivism rate of aggressive drivers forced to attend traffic offender school. Nearly 42 percent of the 77,000 motorists who attended driver retraining between 2001 and 2003...
Mich. DOI Study Finds Competition Doesn’t Equal Affordability; Insurers Say Losses Driving Rates
Mar 24 2005 // Michigan’s Office of Financial and Insurance Services last week released the results of its long-awaited study of competitiveness in the state’s insurance market. While the report found competition under the...
Maryland House Advances Teen Driving Bills
Mar 22 2005 // The House of Delegates gave its preliminary approval this week to a package of bills that tightens rules governing young drivers, in an attempt to cut down the number of grisly teen crashes. “This is not a silver...
Conn. Finds Aggressive Drivers U-Turn into Trouble After Retraining
Mar 21 2005 // Connecticut officials are alarmed at the high recidivism rate of aggressive drivers forced to attend traffic offender school. Nearly 42 percent of the 77,000 motorists who attended driver retraining between 2001 and 2003...
TEEN DRIVER FATALITIES DECLINE:
Mar 21 2005 // The number of Vermont teenagers who died in traffic crashes has declined sharply to where the state has one of the lowest death rates in the country. Highway safety officials credit the new “graduated” licenses...
