Latest Personal Auto Headlines
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Report Ranks S.D. Drivers as Safest; Phoenix Drivers Safest in Big Cities
May 24 2006 // Residents of Sioux Falls, S.D., are the safest drivers in the United States, according to the second-annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report.” The largest city in South Dakota moves up from the...
Investor insights
May 22 2006 // Today, it’s not a fun time to be an insurance investor or analyst,” said Ray Joseph, vice president of Los Angeles-based Capital Research Co. Joseph should know; he is an investment analyst with research...
NAMIC believes such fees are a form of double taxation applied only to those responsible drivers carrying auto insurance
May 22 2006 // Ominous Trend: Growth of municipal accident response fees Across the country and in most Midwestern states, insurance companies are facing the growing phenomenon of cash-strapped municipalities billing insurers for police...
Investor insights
May 22 2006 // Today, it’s not a fun time to be an insurance investor or analyst,” said Ray Joseph, vice president of Los Angeles-based Capital Research Co. Joseph should know; he is an investment analyst with research...
Auto Insurance Direct Writer 21st Century Heads East to Fla, Ga. and Pa.
May 18 2006 // 21st Century Insurance Group, which sells auto insurance directly to consumers, is now selling in Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania, the latest wave of the California-based company’s national expansion in the...
Proposed Calif. regulations would stress driving record over zip code in pricing auto insurance
May 8 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has unveiled enhancements to his proposed regulations that he said follow through on the promise voters sought when they approved Proposition 103 in 1988 –TITLE:...
Proposed Calif. regulations would stress driving record over zip code in pricing auto insurance
May 8 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has unveiled enhancements to his proposed regulations that he said follow through on the promise voters sought when they approved Proposition 103 in 1988 -namely, that the...
Virginia Schedules First ‘Distracted Driver Awareness Day’ for May 3
May 1 2006 // The Virginia Department of Transportation, Drive Smart Virginia and GEICO are partnering to take action to help “reduce the use” of cell phones and other driver distractions by creating the first annual...
Drivers with Suspended Licenses an ‘Epidemic,’ Claims N.H. Official
Apr 24 2006 // Drivers who lose their licenses aren’t letting that keep them off the roads. New Hampshire’s Assistant Safety Commissioner Earl Sweeney said the problem is at epidemic levels nationwide. “The problem for...
N.D. Blues President Fined for Drunken Driving
Apr 20 2006 // The president of North Dakota’s largest health insurance provider has been fined $500 after pleading guilty to drunken driving. Mike Unhjem, 52, of Fargo, pleaded guilty Tuesday. Judge Steven Cahill stayed a 90-day...
Pennsylvania Truckers Back Database of Drivers’ Drug Test Results
Apr 18 2006 // In search of a new tool to weed out problem truckers, a Pennsylvania trucking association is pushing for a statewide database that would compile employer records on drivers’ drug test results. Traffic violations and...
Poll Shows Drivers Don’t Save Money Immediately By Owning a Hybrid Vehicle
Apr 17 2006 // Most new-car buyers in Washington who are likely to buy a hybrid share a common misconception that owning a hybrid car will save them money through better mileage, according to PEMCO’s Northwest Insurance poll. The...
Pemco Poll Shows Drivers Don’t Save Money Immediately with Hybrid Vehicle
Apr 10 2006 // Most new-car buyers in Washington who are likely to buy a hybrid share a common misconception that owning a hybrid car will save them money through better mileage, according to PEMCO’s Northwest Insurance Poll. The...
Supreme Court Justices to Monitor Class Action Over Driver Privacy
Apr 3 2006 // Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito said last week they were concerned that an insurance company could be forced to pay billions of dollars for buying Florida residents’ vehicle records. Justices...
States addressing widening tragedy of teen driver deaths
Apr 3 2006 // A new report uncovers the wider tragedy of fatal car crashes involving teen drivers and is putting new impetus behind state efforts to limit passengers in teenagers’ cars. Over the past decade, nearly two out of...
Times Have Changed. Are you still driving this business?
Apr 3 2006 // Can independent agents compete in the nonstandard auto market? The big boys are better organized, financed and dominating the byways. They also are not creating a level playing field. More often than not, large insurers...
Institute’s Revamp of Crash Tests Puts Manufacturers in Driver’s Seat
Mar 30 2006 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says that frontal offset crash tests it has conducted since 1995 have prompted huge improvements in how vehicles protect people in frontal crashes. Now that consumer information...
Sleep-Deprived Teens Drowsy at School, While Driving
Mar 28 2006 // America is raising a nation of sleep-deprived kids, with only 20 percent getting the recommended nine hours of shuteye on school nights and more than one in four reporting dozing off in class. Some 51 percent of adolescent...
Mass. May Toughen Teen Driving Laws, Raise Licensing Age
Mar 28 2006 // It’s considered by many teenagers a rite of passage to start driving when they turn 16. But some parents, police officers and lawmakers are beginning to question whether that’s too young to handle the...
Maine Panel Endorses Mandatory Sentences for Repeat Bad Drivers
Mar 16 2006 // A proposal to curb Maine’s worst drivers moved forward this week in the Maine Legislature as a committee gave its solid endorsement to “Tina’s Law,” which is named for a woman killed in an accident...
