All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 25 2015 // The Insurance Council of Texas is warning shoppers about possible vehicle break-ins on the Black Friday shopping holiday.Criminals will be intent on burglarizing vehicles that may have been left unlocked or simply have...
Nov 25 2015 // The death toll on U.S. highways rose 8.1 percent in the first half of 2015 as low fuel prices contributed to a jump in miles driven by Americans, according to new figures from the Transportation Department.The preliminary...
Nov 24 2015 // Two police officers and a prosecutor who work in the Northwestern District Attorney’s office in Northampton, Massachusetts, have earned a national award for combating auto insurance fraud.Det. Lt. John Cummings,...
Nov 23 2015 // For the fourth year in a row, the numbers of vehicle crashes in Texas involving both injuries and fatalities have risen, an insurance trade group reported.Both numbers began rising dramatically in 2012, when Texas highway...
Nov 23 2015 // William Cohen beeped his car horn, making those nearest jump and then laugh. Getting the all-clear from a nearby Albemarle County, Virginia, police officer, the senior driver took off for the parking lot exit in his black...
Nov 23 2015 // Utah is test-driving new technology that could improve safety and fuel efficiency for big-rig truckers.The Utah Department of Transportation started conducting field tests last week of a vehicle-to-vehicle communication...
Nov 19 2015 // State Auto Financial Corp. has named President and CEO Michael E. LaRocco chairman of STFC to succeed current Chairman Robert P. Restrepo Jr. upon his retirement from the STFC board at the end of the year.STFC’s...
Nov 18 2015 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that GEICO has become the first insurer in New York State to complete the certification process through the Department of Motor Vehicles to allow customers to begin using electronic...
Nov 18 2015 // Telematics devices offered by auto insurers appear to working to change the behavior of drivers.More than half (56 percent) of the 1,135 drivers participating in an Insurance Research Council (IRC) public opinion survey...
Nov 17 2015 // Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the California Department of Motor Vehicles.The tech titan wants the freedom to...
Nov 16 2015 // Authorities say a 100-year-old man has been killed after the car he was driving on a private road at a gated South Carolina island resort ran into a tree. S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Hannah Wimberly said the wreck...
Nov 16 2015 // What do today’s customers want from insurance providers?They want understanding, interaction, even a relationship. But they vary in when and how they wish to learn, interact and build a relationship. Insurance...
Nov 16 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that her department will not approve any auto insurance company’s rate submission that includes a “widow’s penalty,” under which a...
Nov 16 2015 // Consider the scenario: A family of three suffers an accident and needs to replace several parts on their car. It’s an expensive ordeal. In our current system, drivers are forced to rely largely on replacement parts...
Nov 16 2015 // Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately – an average of 3.1 percent – during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers.The...
Nov 16 2015 // Most agents’ errors and omissions (E&O) carriers report that commercial lines generates the majority of E&O claims. However, a significant number of E&O claims arise from the sale and service of...
Nov 15 2015 // State Auto Financial Corp. has appointed Melissa A. Centers as senior vice president, secretary and general counsel. She succeeds Jay Yano, who passed away in September.Her in-house legal practice focuses on information...
Nov 13 2015 // Hudson Insurance Group (Hudson) has appointed Ronald Honken to a newly created position as senior vice president of all commercial auto business. He will be based in Hudson’s Indianapolis office.Honken will direct...
Nov 9 2015 // There are not many insurance executives who will quote inventor Thomas Edison, Microsoft’s Steve Baumer, futurist Alvin Toffler, Moore’s Law and philosophers Aristotle and Plato.There are also not many people...
Nov 9 2015 // A national auto lender has agreed to provide $5.4 million in relief to more than 450 Massachusetts consumers over allegations that it charged excessive interest rates on its subprime auto loans, Massachusetts Attorney...