All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2023 // SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Five people were killed and five were seriously injured after a truck overturned in central Illinois, causing a toxic substance to leak from its cargo and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of...
Oct 2 2023 // The percentage of American households with cars and without auto insurance rose during the first half of 2023, and the share of customers who say they are shopping for auto insurance reached a record high.J.D. Power...
Sep 26 2023 // A company that provides administrative and operations services for a group of related automobile dealerships across Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida, violated federal law when it fired a longtime senior manager in...
Sep 25 2023 // OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – An Oklahoma judge was arrested in Austin, Texas, last week after authorities say he opened fire on parked vehicles while out driving, striking at least one of them, and intentionally crashed into a...
Sep 21 2023 // California lawmakers, union leaders and truck drivers are trying to steer Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom toward signing into law a proposal that could save jobs as self-driving trucks are tested for their safety on the...
Sep 21 2023 // Britain’s financial watchdog has told motor insurers they have three months to improve the value they give customers in products that top up coverage, or face potential sanctions.The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...
Sep 19 2023 // A disbarred New York attorney has changed his plea to guilty in connection with an $19 million Ponzi scheme and a $30 million auto insurance fraud.Robert Wisnicki, 44, of Forest Hills, pleaded to guilty to conspiracy to...
Sep 18 2023 // Private equity firm Advent International is exploring a sale of CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc., a provider of software to the car insurance industry that has a market value of $7.1 billion, people familiar with...
Sep 18 2023 // Five more people have been charged with intentionally staging automobile accidents with tractor-trailers in New Orleans to defraud trucking and insurance companies in 2017.United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced...
Sep 15 2023 // The percentage of American households with cars and without auto insurance rose during the first half of 2023, and the share of customers who say they are shopping for auto insurance reached a record high.J.D. Power...
Sep 15 2023 // Insurance Navy Auto Insurance is expanding into Las Vegas, Nevada with its car insurance offerings. Insurance Navy Brokers opened its first location in Las Vegas, at 3266 Las Vegas Blvd N STE 12. The new branch in Las...
Sep 13 2023 // Vicars Powersports, a McAlester, Oklahoma retailer of ATVs, UTVs, dirt bikes, motorcycles and personal watercraft, violated federal law when it fired a female manager because she is a woman, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Sep 13 2023 // INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – A wheel came off a pickup truck on an Indianapolis freeway, bounced over a median and crashed into the windshield of another vehicle, killing its driver Monday, police said.The woman driving the...
Sep 12 2023 // Even after putting through 20% rate hikes over the course of this year, The Hartford needs another round of similar magnitude next year, the insurance company’s leader said recently.The Hartford’s auto book...
Sep 7 2023 // ROSENBERG, Texas (AP) – A Texas police chief said Tuesday that wet roads and speed factored into the driver of an SUV plowing into a Denny`s restaurant outside Houston on Labor Day, injuring nearly two dozen people...
Sep 6 2023 // Vermont is implementing new requirements for vehicle registrations using out-of-state addresses.In years past Vermont was happy to register non-residents’ vehicles if they paid the registration fee, which some in...
Sep 5 2023 // JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was struck and killed by a car Friday morning in Florida after a dog chased him into the street, authorities said.The boy and his younger brother had been walking on a...
Sep 5 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Protecting your fleet and maintaining steady operations today means implementing risk management practices to combat rising costs and reduce claims. Our...
Sep 4 2023 // Jumps in rates and written premiums did little to move the needle on underwriting profits for U.S. personal auto insurers, Fitch Ratings reported based on a recent review of midyear results of nine big market...
Sep 4 2023 // An alleged “family and friend” organized auto insurance fraud ring in California was broken up by the Urban Automobile Insurance Fraud Task Force when seven people were arrested on Wednesday in connection to...