Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Data Suggests Dangerous Driving Trend Is Slowing, Slightly
Oct 13 2022 // Preliminary traffic data provides some hope that a rash of unsafe driving habits spawned by traffic-free roads during COVID-19 business shutdowns is beginning to abate. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
Many Americans Apprehensive About Self-Driving Cars: Study
Sep 28 2022 // The majority of Americans (76%) say they would feel less safe driving or riding in cars with self-driving features. Similarly, 73% of people would feel less safe knowing others on the road are traveling in cars with...
New York Bus Driver Pleads Guilty to $30K Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Sep 28 2022 // A New York bus driver faces sentencing for fraudulently collecting more than $30,000 in workers’ compensation wage indemnity benefits by falsely claiming that she was unable to work as a result of a disability,...
Truck Driver Had Heart Attack, but Accident Still Compensable in North Carolina
Sep 23 2022 // Workers’ compensation carriers in North Carolina continue to be bound by a 44-year-old presumption that a death during work duties is work-related, even when a doctor testifies that a heart condition was the cause of...
Tesla Sued by Drivers Over Alleged False Autopilot, Full Self-Driving Claims
Sep 15 2022 // Tesla Inc. was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action accusing Elon Musk’s electric car company of misleading the public by falsely advertising its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features. The complaint...
Repeal of Massachusetts Immigrant Driver’s License Qualifies for November Ballot
Sep 14 2022 // Massachusetts voters will get the chance to decide whether the state should reject a new law allowing immigrants in the country illegally to obtain state driver’s licenses. The secretary of the commonwealth’s...
Uber Pays New Jersey Back Taxes of $100M Over Driver Employment Classification
Sep 13 2022 // Uber Technologies Inc. said on Monday it back-paid New Jersey $100 million in unemployment taxes over classifying drivers as contractors, but added that it did not agree with the state’s view that drivers were...
Brink’s Driver Was Asleep During California Jewelry Heist, Lawsuit Says
Aug 25 2022 // One of the drivers of a Brink’s tractor-trailer was asleep inside the big rig, parked near a remote Southern California rest stop earlier this summer, when thieves broke a lock and stole millions of dollars worth of...
3 Indiana State Students Killed in Car Crash
Aug 23 2022 // Two freshman members of the Indiana State University football team were among the three students who were killed in a weekend crash, officials said Monday. Two other football team members who were injured in the crash were...
Georgia Boat Driver Indicted on Homicide Charges After Deadly Memorial Day Crash
Aug 18 2022 // A Georgia man was indicted on homicide charges Wednesday, after a Memorial Day weekend boat collision that killed five people. Mark Stegall was indicted on 10 counts of first-degree homicide by a vessel, USA Today...
Car Crash Into Virginia Pub Injures More Than a Dozen People, 2 Critically
Aug 15 2022 // Two people remained in critical condition on Saturday among the more than a dozen who were injured after a vehicle crashed into a northern Virginia pub and restaurant, according to authorities. The crash at the...
California Insurance Commissioner: Mercury Steered ‘Good Drivers’ Toward Higher-Priced
Aug 15 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a legal action in early August against Mercury Insurance for reportedly violating consumer protection laws, including selling Mercury’s highest-priced policy...
Jury Acquits Truck Driver in 2019 New Hampshire Crash That Killed 7 Motorcyclists
Aug 11 2022 // A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in a horrific head-on collision in northern New Hampshire that exposed fatal flaws in the processing of license revocations...
Truck Driver Reaches Agreement in Maine Fatal Accident Caused by Dislodged Tire
Aug 3 2022 // A truck driver is expected to accept responsibility for causing the death of a state police detective who was struck by a dislodged tire as he was assisting a driver alongside Interstate 95. Scott Willett, 55, of Patten,...
Miami, Like Connecticut, Installing Smart Signs to Prevent Wrong-Way Drivers
Aug 2 2022 // Miami-Dade County officials, like Connecticut authorities, are investing heavily in new, flashing road signs after a spate of wrong-way crashes on highways. The Miami-Dade Expressway Authority this week announced a $2.3...
California Insurance Commissioner: Mercury Steered ‘Good Drivers’ Toward Higher-Priced Policies
Aug 1 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a legal action on Monday against Mercury Insurance for reportedly violating consumer protection laws, including selling Mercury’s highest-priced policy to...
Curbing Distracted Driving Starts with a Commitment to Education and Enforcement
Aug 1 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT. Only 2.5% of people can effectively multitask even in the best conditions.[1] That’s not great odds if you’re multi-tasking behind the wheel of a commercial...
Do Truck Drivers Need CGL Coverage?
Aug 1 2022 // During my 17-year stint at the Big “I” national association, I received tens of thousands of coverage questions from member agents. One of the most common questions was whether someone needed [insert type of...
Grubhub Drivers Are Not Exempt From Arbitration, Massachusetts High Court Rules
Jul 29 2022 // On-demand delivery drivers for Grubhub are subject to the company’s mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in overturning a lower court that found the...
Maryland Man Died When Hit in Road After Lyft Driver Ordered Him Out of Car: Police
Jul 28 2022 // A Maryland man has died after police say his Lyft driver ordered him out of the car in the middle of a Delaware highway. Delaware State Police say the crash occurred Sunday around 2 a.m. A group of six friends ordered a...
