All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2016 // The annual auto insurance fee that Michigan drivers pay toward caring for people catastrophically injured in crashes is rising to $160, a $10 increase.The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association announced the new per-car...
Mar 24 2016 // Insurers that are not already using the data from their telematics programs for claims would be wise to do so early in their adoption of telematics as the task only becomes more difficult as more data is collected,...
Mar 22 2016 // Hailstorms that rolled through the Fort Worth, Texas, area last week could result in $300 million in vehicle repairs.Mark Hanna, a spokesman for the Insurance Council of Texas, estimated that 50,000 vehicles were damaged...
Mar 22 2016 // Section II (Liability Coverage) of the Business Auto Coverage (BAC) form describes who qualifies as an insured (II.A.1.). Employees using their personally-owned vehicle to conduct business on behalf of the named...
Mar 21 2016 // Ride-hailing service Uber has sounded out car companies about placing a large order for self-driving cars, an auto industry source said on Friday.“They wanted autonomous cars,” the source, who declined to be...
Mar 21 2016 // Car sharing usage will significantly increase, particularly in urban areas among young residents, however most consumers will still opt to own their own cars and car sharing will not significantly hurt car sales, according...
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...