Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Chubb Personal Auto Service Protects Insured Info for Total Loss Vehicles
Sep 18 2019 // Chubb has launched a new service designed to help personal auto clients remove sensitive electronic information from their vehicles in the event of an insured total loss. “While hands-free GPS and mobile connectivity...
Fairmatic Bets On Driver-Driven Premium Adjustments to Score in Commercial Auto
Sep 17 2019 // Managing general agent (MGA) Fairmatic has introduced a usage-based insurance model that features monthly commercial auto premium adjustments based on an insured’s driving behaviors. Fairmatic’s...
TDI Offers Guidance on New Ban on Named Driver Policies
Sep 16 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a bulletin providing guidance on House Bill 259, passed during the 2019 legislative session, that prohibits insurers from delivering, issuing for delivery, or renewing named...
Amazon Under Scrutiny Over Claims of Unsafe Conditions for Delivery Drivers
Sep 16 2019 // Three U.S. senators on Thursday said Amazon.com Inc should stop working with delivery contractors that violate labor laws by imposing unfair conditions on drivers delivering packages for the e-commerce company. The...
Oregon Teen Who Lost His Leg in DUI Accident Sues Driver, Brewery
Sep 16 2019 // An Oregon teen who lost his leg in a car wreck is suing the driver who crashed into him — along with the Salem brewery accused of over-serving the driver- for $3.5 million. James Holland Jr., along with his parents,...
Arch Nemesis of Uber over Driver Pay Sues Before New California Law Inked
Sep 13 2019 // It didn’t take long for attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan to deploy a new weapon in her six-year war with Uber Technologies Inc. over driver pay. Within hours of Uber thumbing its nose at a pending California labor law...
Uber Refusing to Label Drivers as Employees Under California Law
Sep 12 2019 // Facing the most serious threat yet to its business model, Uber Technologies Inc. is dusting off a legal argument it has employed with mixed results: that it’s a technology platform, not a transportation company. Now,...
Driver Killed, 8 Children Injured in Mississippi School Bus Crash
Sep 12 2019 // A school bus driver is dead and eight children have injuries after a school bus rolled over in northern Mississippi. The Mississippi Highway Patrol tells news outlets that the bus driver died in the Tuesday morning...
Oregon Teen who Lost His Leg in DUI Accident Sues Driver, Brewery
Sep 9 2019 // An Oregon teen who lost his leg in a car wreck is suing the driver who crashed into him – along with the Salem brewery accused of over-serving the driver– for $3.5 million. The Statesman Journal reported James Holland...
Automated Driver Assist Cars Still a Work in Progress
Sep 9 2019 // To the human driver, it would have been an obvious obstacle: a police car and fire truck, emergency lights blazing, blocking the lane ahead. But to the Tesla Inc. Model S traveling down a Southern California freeway last...
15 Safest Driving Cities in America
Sep 6 2019 // Brownsville, Texas, has the safest drivers in America for the second year in a row, according to the 2019 Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report. The report ranks the 200 largest U.S. cities by collision frequency...
Tesla Insurance Will Use Driver Video, GPS Data Subject to States’ Approval
Sep 6 2019 // Tesla Inc.’s use of individual customer data, such as vehicle camera footage and GPS, to price its new insurance products will depend on drivers’ authorization and individual U.S. state laws, a senior company...
Tesla Autopilot Design, Plus Driver Error, to Blame for 2018 Crash: Safety Board
Sep 5 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday cited driver errors and Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot design as the probable cause of a January 2018 crash of a Model S into a parked fire truck on a highway in...
Uber, Lyft Balk at Revealing Contracted Drivers’ Names; Claim ‘Trade Secrets’
Sep 4 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have argued to Chicago city officials that the names of their drivers should be treated as “trade secrets,” and should not be released because competitors could use the...
Automakers Call for Urgency in Advancing U.S. Rules for Self-Driving Vehicles
Aug 30 2019 // Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc, on Thursday urged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to “promptly” remove regulatory barriers for cars without steering...
Wisconsin Man Wants State to Adopt Driver Hands-Free Cellphone Law
Aug 29 2019 // A Wisconsin man who spent three years lobbying Minnesota lawmakers to ban the use of cellphones or other electronic devices while driving said he wants his home state to adopt similar legislation. Thomas Goeltz lost his...
Texas’ Fee-Charging Driver Responsibility Program Ends Sept. 1
Aug 28 2019 // After years of failed attempts to eliminate it, the Driver Responsibility Program will end on Sept. 1. A measure signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in June, House Bill 2048, shutters the 16-year-old program that left more...
When Insurance Companies Fail at the Promise
Aug 28 2019 // I read an article last week about the intersection of gig work, an innocent injured party, insurance, and big business. Let me summarize the best I can. A driver is in traffic and is suddenly hit by another driver, who was...
Among Bad Driving Behaviors, Speeding Is Strongest Predictor of Crashes
Aug 22 2019 // Speeding is the riskiest kind of aggressive driving, according to an analysis of data from on-board telematics devices in vehicles. Researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo examined data from 28 million trips...
Insurance Driving Up Total Cost of Risk for Businesses
Aug 19 2019 // Businesses and organizations paid nearly two percent more in 2018 than they did in 2017 to cover the total cost of risk. Reversing the trend of falling average TCOR per $1,000 of revenue seen from 2013 to 2017, average...
