All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mar 7 2016 // State Auto Financial Corp. ended 2015 with a steep drop in net income and a combined ratio that landed above 100. Executives blamed a bad year for the insurer’s auto lines but added that they’ve taken...
Mar 7 2016 // Private passenger automobile insurance remains one of the most competitive segments in the U.S. property/casualty industry, with a number of large, well capitalized organizations battling for market share and searching for...
Mar 7 2016 // James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 made its big screen appearance 52 years ago in “Goldfinger.” The car sported concealed Browning machine guns, tactical oil slicks, ejector seats and a 5-speed, 4.0 L engine...
Mar 4 2016 // Valen Analytics, a provider of proprietary data, analytics and predictive modeling for property and casualty insurers, has launched Risk Score for commercial auto insurance within its InsureRight Platform. The predictive...
Mar 4 2016 // Federal regulators want to punish a southeast Nebraska company that the regulators say wrongfully fired a driver who refused to operate a truck that violated Iowa law.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Mar 3 2016 // Admiral Group plc on Thursday announced record profit for last year, and the CEO of one of its biggest brands is taking that as an endorsement of his popular online insurance shopping business model.Compare.com CEO Andrew...
Mar 3 2016 // Training showing police ways to reduce the chances of dying in a traffic-related incident included something as simple as buckling up.For 27-year police veteran Scott Slagle, the message provided during a recent training...
Mar 3 2016 // MetLife Auto & Home has introduced its first commercial automobile policy. The product is now available in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, with more states planned in the near future.The commercial auto coverage is an...
Mar 2 2016 // Florence Swanson has lived through every American car from the Ford Model T to the Tesla Model S. Now, at 94, she has stepped into what Google hopes will be the automotive future: self-driving vehicles.After her painting...
Mar 1 2016 // A new real-time auto insurance monitoring system is now being used in some parts of Louisiana to help police enforce the requirement that drivers are up to date on paying their premiums.The American Press reports the new...
Mar 1 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google said on Monday it bears “some responsibility” after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month.The crash may be the first case of one of...
Mar 1 2016 // Clarification: This article first ran a year ago, in February, 2015, on Carrier Management.com. It is not Willis Towers Watson’s most recent survey on insurers’ use of predictive modeling. For a report on...
Mar 1 2016 // How much people trust technology and what type of driving alerts they respond to may have as much or more to do with the success of autonomous vehicles than technological, legal and security concerns, according to two new...
Feb 29 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...