All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2016 // Federal safety regulators say a southeast Nebraska company wrongfully fired a driver who refused to operate a truck that violated Iowa law. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Mar 18 2016 // Two national auto lenders have agreed to provide a total of $7.4 million in relief to more than 2,000 Massachusetts car buyers over allegations they charged excessive interest rates on their subprime auto...
Mar 18 2016 // Bangladesh police launched a criminal investigation on Thursday into the cyber theft of $81 million from the central bank’s U.S. account but said it was too early to pinpoint any suspects.The money was transferred to...
Mar 18 2016 // The FBI and U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a bulletin Thursday warning that motor vehicles are “increasingly vulnerable” to hacking.“The FBI and NHTSA are warning the...
Mar 17 2016 // Property/casualty insurance trade groups, the American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), have submitted testimony to the Minnesota Legislature in opposition to...
Mar 17 2016 // A truck used to deliver feed to a business where cattle are fattened hit a train track and shifted it at least a foot before an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas and injured at least 32 people, an investigator...
Mar 16 2016 // Super regional property/casualty insurer The Main Street America Group reported record net income of $91.4 million and a combined ratio of 99.8 for the 2015 calendar year.The Florida-based independent agency...
Mar 16 2016 // A patchwork of state laws governing the operation of self-driving cars threatens to stall their development, supporters told lawmakers as U.S. senators began consideration of a national standard for robotic...
Mar 15 2016 // Parr Insurance Brokerage, an independent insurance agency, has created a new policy for electric vehicles (EV) ridesharing in Chicago. Parr developed the policy for Chicago-based E-Rive, an electric-vehicle car sharing...
Mar 15 2016 // An engineer noticed a significant bend in a rail and applied the emergency brakes before a passenger train derailed in western Kansas early on March 14, an official said.The Amtrak train apparently was travelling at about...
Mar 15 2016 // Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) Commissioner Susan L. Donegan announced that Travelers Insurance Co. and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. have paid Vermont $154,000 in fines and repaid consumers another...
Mar 15 2016 // “Sometimes, accidents just happen,” a lawyer for General Motors Co. told a U.S. jury in defense of the carmaker at a test trial over a deadly flaw in millions of ignition switches.The accident was one of dozens...
Mar 15 2016 // The number of live telematics-based motor insurance policies, including black box policies, in the UK has increased by 40 percent, according to the latest annual research by the British Insurance Brokers’ Association...
Mar 14 2016 // Existing U.S. laws pose few barriers to adoption of autonomous vehicle technology so long as cars and trucks stick with existing designs allowing humans to take control, the agency overseeing traffic safety said...
Mar 11 2016 // The top U.S. auto safety regulator said Thursday the agency is seeking additional details of a recent crash of an Alphabet Inc. Google self-driving car in California.National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief...
Mar 10 2016 // Authorities announced that a Hudson County, New Jersey, couple, along with their adult son and the manager of a car dealership, have been charged with conspiracy, insurance fraud, and other offenses for allegedly...
Mar 8 2016 // Chicago-based CNA appointed Jim Gunson as vice president, Auto and Liability Claim. He will report to Andy Pinkes, executive vice president, Worldwide P&C Claim. Gunson joins CNA with nearly two decades of executive...
Mar 8 2016 // The 63,000 spectators crowded in late January inside Atlanta’s Georgia Dome for a battle of college marching bands didn’t know they’d also be schooled in auto safety.Between the Lincoln University Orange...
Mar 7 2016 // The motor insurance industry faces a significant shake-up from two waves of technological innovation – the growth of telematics and the development of driverless cars, according to Fitch.Over the short term, telematics...
Mar 7 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google self-driving car struck a municipal bus in a minor crash, in what may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle. In a Feb. 23 report filed with California...