All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2024 // A new study examining potential unintentional bias in auto insurance finds that while Black and Hispanic drivers pay more than other drivers for coverage, they also have more claims and driving infractions.The...
Nov 18 2024 // Commercial auto insurance has struggled to achieve underwriting profitability, even before inflationary conditions affected property/casualty lines in recent years. The trend has been accompanied by steady growth in net...
Nov 14 2024 // After the U.S. commercial auto insurance segment sustained a $5 billion net loss in 2023, a new AM Best reports indicates further deterioration in the first half of 2024.Despite targeted underwriting initiatives, including...
Nov 12 2024 // A New York City man has been charged with staging a car accident for insurance fraud purposes last month in a case that received wide publicity after the victim shared dashboard camera footage of the crash, authorities...
Nov 6 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi’s capital said a man died Monday when he was trying to repair a dump truck and asphalt poured onto him.Darrell Sheriff, 41, was underneath the truck working on a...
Nov 4 2024 // Five people died in a fiery vehicle crash in Wisconsin, authorities said Saturday. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the vehicle crashed into a tree Friday night off a roadway just south of...
Nov 4 2024 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has proposed modifying the state’s recently adopted premium change transparency rule.The proposal is specific to Phase 2 of the rule (the automatic inclusion of reasons...
Nov 4 2024 // The U.S. trucking industry has been shaken to its foundations. A welter of external challenges catalyzed the failure of approximately 88,000 trucking firms in 2023. That is 10% of the nation’s trucking companies.The...
Oct 31 2024 // At New Century Motorcycles in Alhambra, a handful of electric motorcycles are relegated to the back of the store, tucked behind the dirt bikes. The store sells one a month, at most, a salesperson said.Motorcyclists have...
Oct 28 2024 // Commercial auto insurance has struggled to achieve underwriting profitability, even before inflationary conditions affected property/casualty lines in recent years. The trend has been accompanied by steady growth in net...
Oct 28 2024 // New vehicle registrations in California seem to be leveling off, while consumer tastes for Telsas cooled slightly.California’s new light vehicle registrations fell by 1.7% from a year earlier, totaling 1,320,708...
Oct 24 2024 // Lloyd’s, the world’s leading marketplace for insurance and reinsurance, has launched disaster resilience vehicle with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to deliver disaster risk financing to...
Oct 21 2024 // A subway train that derailed near Boston earlier this month had entered a 10-mph zone traveling at 36 mph, according to an initial report from the National Transportation Safety Board released Wednesday.The Green Line...
Oct 8 2024 // The Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial court erred in finding that a garbage truck driver and the city of Chesapeake were shielded by sovereign immunity for their role in an accident caused by the truck...
Oct 8 2024 // GOSHEN, Ohio (AP) — An early morning crash involving two cars on an Ohio road killed five people and critically injured another person, authorities said.The Ohio State Highway Patrol said a car heading northeast on Route...
Oct 7 2024 // Amid inflation and labor shortages, the growing impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and rising repair costs, insurers and repairers will have a bumpy road to navigate in the year ahead, according to CCC Intelligent Solutions...
Oct 3 2024 // The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said owners of 154,000 Jeep plug-in hybrid electric SUVs should park outside and away from buildings or other vehicles until they get recall repairs...
Sep 30 2024 // California, the birthplace of hot rod culture and televised police chases, is cracking down on a surge in deadly street takeovers.Often organized through social media, these chaotic events — also known as sideshows —...
Sep 27 2024 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An inmate who was beaten by an Arkansas police officer in the back of a patrol car filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the former officer and his police chief, accusing them of violating his...
Sep 27 2024 // Self-driving cars could make personal auto insurance largely obsolete within 20 years, according to a worst-case scenario modeled by Morningstar. A more likely, moderate scenario forecasts the line could remain necessary...