All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 16 2017 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to charge the defendant in a case involving a Boston car accident with motor vehicle insurance fraud. However, the Appeals Court reversed the...
May 15 2017 // A rare order from a federal judge alerting prosecutors to possible criminal misconduct by Uber or a key executive deepens the turmoil swirling around the ridesharing company at a time when it’s grappling with other...
May 15 2017 // New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that New York is now accepting applications from companies interested in testing or demonstrating autonomous vehicles on public roads.Included in the fiscal year 2018 budget,...
May 15 2017 // Amid a second straight year of stagnant auto insurance shopping activity and modest rate increases, auto insurance companies have grown increasingly reliant on great customer service, personalized advice and strong agents...
May 15 2017 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld a Superior Court decision that defendant, Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Co., did not engage in unfair settlement practices in its handling of a personal injury claim....
May 12 2017 // Today’s insurers want to be there for their customers—literally.With sensors of various kinds in policyholders’ cars, homes and personal devices, “exposure data tracking” is rapidly becoming a...
May 11 2017 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Michelle Van Aken assistant vice president in the benefits department of the Menlo Park, Calif. office. Van Aken brings has more than a decade of employee benefits experience ranging...
May 10 2017 // Bismarck, N.D., police say the number of motor vehicle thefts more than doubled last year.A new report that compiles crime statistics for the city shows 309 vehicles were stolen in Bismarck last year, compared with 154 in...
May 10 2017 // This week’s post has been something of a struggle for me. I’ve had to catch up on a lot of terminology and the progress that has been made in the autonomous vehicle world. In way, it has always seemed like...
May 10 2017 // Authorities in north Mississippi say 67 guns were stolen from a tractor-trailer that was waiting to deliver the firearms to a sporting goods store. The Commercial Appeal reports that 61 handguns six other firearms were...
May 8 2017 // An Little Rock woman has negotiated a plea in an insurance fraud case involving a 2015 reported car accident involving a U-Haul rental vehicle and fraudulent insurance claims, Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr...
May 8 2017 // Two Rhode Island residents were identified Thursday as victims of a deadly crash at a crowded indoor automobile auction in Massachusetts.Three people died Wednesday when an SUV being shown to prospective buyers suddenly...
May 8 2017 // Uber Technologies Inc., in the midst of legal battle with Alphabet Inc. over self-driving car technology, is building a new artificial intelligence team in Toronto to help improve its autonomous vehicle software.The team...
May 3 2017 // A California bill that could affect auto repair costs is making its way through state Legislature, and one group that’s happy about that is the Association of California Insurance Companies.ACIC is one of several...
May 3 2017 // Allstate saw its first quarter profit take a big jump this year to $666 million, up from the $217 million reported for the first quarter of 2016.Total revenue of $9.4 billion in the first quarter of 2017 increased by 6.3...
May 3 2017 // Auto-theft rates in Mexico are rising at the fastest pace ever, and authorities are getting worse at tracking down the stolen cars.In March, the number of auto thefts rose 21 percent from the same month a year earlier,...
May 3 2017 // A real life game of Grand Theft Auto is playing out across one Florida County.Kids as young as 10, barely able to see over the steering wheel, are driving cars past 100 mph into oncoming traffic, trees, light poles and...
May 2 2017 // Amid a second straight year of stagnant auto insurance shopping activity and modest rate increases, auto insurance companies have grown increasingly reliant on great customer service, personalized advice and strong agents...
May 1 2017 // In his 28 years with the Utah Highway Patrol, Lt. Lee Perry has seen a lot of carnage from crashes in which motorists weren’t wearing seat belts. One crash in 2013 really struck home: He arrived at a scene where two...
May 1 2017 // Apple Inc. urged California to toughen up its proposed policy on testing self-driving cars, a move that would result in more public data that could help Apple catch up to rivals in the self-driving space by giving it a...