All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 8 2016 // “This is a new world for insurers. The industry will need a whole new set of data tools to deal with this.”So says Michael Macauley, CEO of Quadrant Information Services, a supplier of pricing analytics to...
Nov 7 2016 // For a historically slow-moving industry, changes are occurring at a rapid rate in today’s auto insurance world. Drivers’ road habits are shifting and auto insurers should adapt to the changing behavior behind...
Nov 7 2016 // Root officially debuted in the U.S. market on October 25. The fledgling auto insurer, just 18 months old, relies on telematics and a customer’s smartphone to deliver what it says will be significantly cheaper rates...
Nov 4 2016 // Texas Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has approved rate changes for private passenger and commercial automobile insurance provided through the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA), which is the...
Nov 4 2016 // Catastrophe losses climbed 78 percent for Allstate in its 2016 third quarter, a trend that led to a double-digit drop in net income and higher losses for Esurance, its online auto and home insurance provider.The...
Nov 4 2016 // The Baltimore school bus driver who died along with five others in a collision with a commuter bus was found at fault in three traffic-related cases in the last eight years, according to civil and criminal court records...
Nov 3 2016 // A funny thing happened on the path to disruption. This decade, most of Silicon Valley’s big societal claims have turned out to be wrong.These claims arguably began around the time this cycle’s real expansion...
Nov 2 2016 // Texas has twice as many motorists killed in vehicles colliding with wild animals than any other state, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) reports.According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), more than...
Nov 2 2016 // Rene van Winden has joined Lockton as a senior vice president and national energy property leader based in the insurance broker’s Houston operation. He is an expert in onshore property insurance programs and will...
Nov 2 2016 // Last year, one out of every eight car thefts was a freebie for the thief because the driver left the keys or the car access device inside.It’s a growing problem according to a report from the insurance...
Oct 31 2016 // Self-driving cars are getting closer by the day, but they won’t be coming from hacking phenomenon George Hotz.Hotz, the first person to jailbreak an iPhone and a vagabond of the world’s top tech companies, has...
Oct 31 2016 // Eight of 10 customers who purchased their auto insurance policy through a local agent still call their agent first to report or seek advice regarding a claim and customers whose agents file their claim are happier with...
Oct 31 2016 // Lexington, Ky., officials say property thefts, especially those involving vehicles, are among the most frequently committed crimes in Kentucky’s second-largest city.The Lexington Herald-Leader reports more than 260...
Oct 26 2016 // Confie, a national provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, has acquired Hulme Corp., dba Alamo Auto Insurance of East Texas. Founded in 2001 and based in Tyler, Texas, Alamo Auto focuses on providing...
Oct 26 2016 // A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved one of the biggest corporate settlements on record, Volkswagen AG’s $14.7 billion deal arising from its diesel emissions cheating scandal, and the German automaker said it would begin...
Oct 25 2016 // Root officially debuted in the U.S. market on October 25. The fledgling auto insurer, just 18 months old, relies on telematics and a customer’s smartphone to deliver what it says will be significantly cheaper rates...
Oct 25 2016 // Kids of lower socioeconomic status, those riding in rural areas, and those riding mostly on the sidewalk have higher risk of injury than others, according to a new review.Not surprisingly, injuries related to motor vehicle...
Oct 25 2016 // A tractor trailer full of beer drove itself down Colorado’s I-25 last week with nobody behind the wheel. Uber Technologies Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV teamed up on the delivery, which they said is the first time...
Oct 21 2016 // Traffic accidents involving farm vehicles in the Midwest would drop by more than 60 percent if state policies required more lighting and reflection on those vehicles, according to a study from the University of Iowa...
Oct 21 2016 // Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to equip all of its vehicles with self-driving hardware has intensified competition among rival camps of technology and auto companies over what equipment will be on board cars of the...