All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2026 // China will ban ‘hidden’ car door handles from 2027, becoming the first country to phase out a design pioneered by Tesla and adopted by Chinese competitors including Xiaomi.The hidden handle design, which...
Feb 3 2026 // Plaintiffs claiming punitive damages in lawsuits must meet a high bar, a Florida appeals court found in overturning a trial court’s decision in a fatal accident involving an online car-sharing platform.Turo Inc., a...
Feb 3 2026 // Consumers of auto insurance in the U.S. received a respite overall from several years of premium increases, but don’t tell that to drivers in some states and don’t look for it to continue.According to online...
Feb 3 2026 // Vehicle thefts fell by 25% in Arizona in 2025 to the lowest rate in decades, and the third consecutive year of a decrease in the state, a new report shows.Data from the Arizona Automobile Theft Authority’s Auto Crime...
Feb 3 2026 // MAPFRE Insurance has been denied a preliminary injunction to keep AAA Northeast from selling auto insurance policies in Massachusetts in what the insurer says is a violation of an exclusive marketing agreement it has with...
Jan 30 2026 // A federal court judge has halted New Hampshire’s plan to end motor vehicle inspections.U.S. District Court Judge Landya McCafferty granted a preliminary injunction on January 27 to prevent the state from implementing...
Jan 29 2026 // Breakdown cover and car insurance company RAC is close to selecting banks to lead its initial public offering in London, according to people familiar with the matter. The nearly 130-year-old firm is set to pick Goldman...
Jan 27 2026 // Kin, a direct-to-consumer digital personal lines insurer, announced the launch of auto insurance in Florida and Texas.The auto insurance is currently available as part of a bundle or as a standalone product. Home insurance...
Jan 27 2026 // New York households paid an estimated $1,935 on average for personal auto insurance in 2024, according to a report by the industry’s Insurance Information Institute (Triple I). This was an increase from $1,753 in...
Jan 26 2026 // Customers shopped for auto insurance at a record pace in 2025 as years of insurance rate hikes got buyers looking around. And this time, they are finding better prices elsewhere, according to J.D. Power.The percentage of...
Jan 26 2026 // A car crashed through the entrance of the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Friday evening, striking a ticket counter and injuring six people, airport officials said.The driver was taken into custody, the Wayne...
Jan 22 2026 // Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul last week announced that his office charged a Chicago man over his role in the thefts of multiple vehicles while he was working for the city of Chicago in the Department of Streets and...
Jan 21 2026 // More than 100 vehicles smashed into each other or slid off an interstate in Michigan on Monday as snow fueled by the Great Lakes blanketed the state.The massive pileup prompted the Michigan State Police to close both...
Jan 21 2026 // Insurtech Lemonade said it has launched Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance, and will begin with a technical collaboration with Tesla that gives the insurer access to vehicle data.For starters, Lemonade said the new offering...
Jan 15 2026 // On Thursday January 15, at about 2:20 p.m., New York State Police responded to a report of a multi-vehicle crash on I-81 southbound, south of Exit 73 in the town of LaFayette, a rural community about 15 moles south of...
Jan 12 2026 // Michigan needs to confront risks to its $348 billion piece of the global automotive industry this year and move decisively toward keeping jobs, engineering and production in the state.That message comes from Glenn Stevens,...
Jan 8 2026 // The U.S. Department of Transportation is withholding about $160 million from California after the state delayed canceling thousands of commercial driver’s licenses that regulators say were issued...
Jan 8 2026 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved Progressive Security Insurance Company’s request for a 6.6% average rate decrease on its over 270,000 private passenger auto insurance policyholders and...
Jan 7 2026 // In their latest report on the U.S. auto insurance market, analysts from S&P Global Market Intelligence predict the strongest overall U.S. property/casualty insurance underwriting results in 18 years for 2025, driven by...
Jan 5 2026 // A United States Postal Service employee has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly collecting augmented workers’ compensation benefits to which she was not entitled, the U.S. Attorney’s Office,...