All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 8 2016 // Are loss-of-use damages, such as lost profits, allowed in Texas when an insured has recovered fair market value on a commercial vehicle that is deemed a total loss after an accident? The Texas Supreme Court thinks so,...
Feb 8 2016 // For service-type operations under a garage liability policy, the standard market generally writes this business under a general liability policy, which includes personal injury and advertising liability, fire legal...
Feb 5 2016 // Aspen Managing General Agency (MGA) and Midlands Management of Texas announced that Aspen MGA has acquired the renewal rights of the Texas personal auto business currently managed by Midlands Management.Richard Bird, chief...
Feb 4 2016 // Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Assistant District Attorney Heath Long could not prove that a young man was texting when he careened his pickup into another, killing a grandfather and his teenaged granddaughter.“What...
Feb 4 2016 // Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. car and home insurer, said fourth-quarter profit fell on a surge in auto claims.Net income declined 41 percent to $489 million, or $1.18 a share, from $824 million, or...
Feb 2 2016 // Aspen Managing General Agency (MGA) announced it is entering the Texas private passenger auto market on March 1, 2016, led by industry veteran Paul Harrison. Aspen MGA is a division of Allstar Financial Group, an...
Feb 2 2016 // State Farm will offer customers a new endorsement in Colorado to cover insurance gaps for policyholders who use personal vehicles to provide rides for transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft.The optional...
Feb 2 2016 // Insurance agents aren’t dead yet, but even underwriters participating in the personal automobile insurance market may be looking for another line of work within the next two decades, industry observers said at a...
Jan 29 2016 // I can’t be the only one who thinks they should bring back the original “Law & Order.” If NBC did, the show’s first case should be one that went on trial this week in a local court in Mineola,...
Jan 29 2016 // A tornado picked up a southbound vehicle on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Lauderdale Wednesday morning and dropped it in the northbound lane as a line of severe storms hit the area, officials said.They said the storms...
Jan 27 2016 // U.S. auto safety regulators said Tuesday that air bag maker Takata Corp. declared 5.1 million U.S. vehicles defective, as the company disclosed an 11th death could be linked to a faulty airbag.Most of the vehicles...
Jan 27 2016 // More people died from gunshots than car accidents in Tennessee during 2014.The Violence Policy Center, an organization dedicated to informing people about gun violence, has produced a study comparing gun and car deaths...
Jan 26 2016 // The Main Street America Group has introduced Main Street Protection Auto, its new private passenger auto insurance program for the preferred/standard marketplace in South Carolina via its statewide network of independent...
Jan 25 2016 // Millions of Americans started digging themselves out Sunday after a mammoth blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much of the East Coast to an icy standstill.New York and Baltimore began...
Jan 25 2016 // The rate of commercial truck-involved fatalities is declining, an industry trade group says.The American Trucking Associations reports that its analysis of federal Department of Transportation data shows safety...
Jan 25 2016 // Hilary Rowen, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick LLP in Sacramento, Calif., for the last three years has been analyzing and following the insurance issues relating to the emergence of autonomous vehicles, particularly...
Jan 22 2016 // A New York man is about to go on trial in vehicular homicide case that tests the limits of criminal consequences. He wasn’t behind the wheel when a police officer was struck and killed — he was leaning against...
Jan 22 2016 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday that automakers recalled 51.3 million vehicles in the United States last year, the second-highest ever, in 868 separate campaigns.NHTSA and automakers...
Jan 21 2016 // Are loss-of-use damages, such as lost profits, allowed in Texas when an insured has recovered fair market value on a commercial vehicle that is deemed a total loss after an accident? The Texas Supreme Court thinks so,...
Jan 21 2016 // Utah-man Navid Monjazeb faces 22 counts of insurance fraud, reckless endangerment, and other crimes spanning five years and at least 23 known accidents – with the same three vehicles.Charges resulting from a months-long...