All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 2 2023 // As it had warned last month, Allstate Corp. reported a fourth quarter 2022 loss of $310 million as losses from auto insurance outpaced an increase in revenue.Results were in comparison to net income of $790 million for Q4...
Jan 31 2023 // A woman who was seriously injured when the parked patrol car she was detained in was hit by a freight train filed a lawsuit against police, accusing three officers of acting recklessly and failing in their duty to take...
Jan 30 2023 // LOUISVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Six people died in upstate New York when a freight truck and an express bus carrying more than a dozen people collided Saturday near the U.S.-Canada border, state police said.Three others were...
Jan 24 2023 // Drivers are not only shopping around for auto insurance more than ever, they are switching carriers.According to a quarterly report from J.D. Power, in collaboration with TransUnion, the quote rate for auto insurance in...
Jan 23 2023 // A woman died and her daughter was injured last week in central Kentucky after high winds caused a Denny’s restaurant sign to fall on their car.News outlets reported that the 1.3-ton sign crushed the car in...
Jan 19 2023 // DETROIT (AP) – A Detroit museum displaying a 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh as part of a showing of 80 of his works said it shouldn’t be pulled into a dispute over ownership of the multimillion-dollar...
Jan 18 2023 // Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting should be returned to the family of its former owner by Sompo Holdings Inc., the Japanese insurer that bought the famous artwork despite its tainted Nazi-era past, according to...
Jan 17 2023 // Five Connecticut police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges accusing them of cruelly mistreating a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in a police van with no seat belts when the driver braked hard.The...
Jan 13 2023 // In October, the Detroit Institute of Arts pulled back the curtains on its three-month Van Gogh exhibit, proudly boasting that its expo of 74 paintings was one of the largest-ever collections assembled of the Dutch...
Jan 13 2023 // Pennsylvania auto insurers will not be able to surcharge private passenger policyholders with claims unless their aggregate claim cost over a three-year period exceeds $2,100. This new threshold is effective in July and is...
Jan 12 2023 // Geico is off the hook, at least for now, from paying a Missouri woman $5.2 million because she said she contracted a sexually transmitted disease in the car of a man who is insured by the company.The Missouri Supreme Court...
Jan 12 2023 // WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — When a tractor trailer struck the rear of a bus last month carrying more than 20 people in Virginia, the passenger compartment of the bus was destroyed and several passengers were ejected, the...
Jan 10 2023 // Insurance brokerage USI is forecasting that half of 32 commercial insurance product lines analyzed will experience softer pricing in the first half of 2023—including a predicted “buyer’s market” for...
Jan 4 2023 // GEORGE WEST, Texas (AP) – A minivan trying to overtake a vehicle in a no-passing zone on a Texas highway crashed head-on into an SUV, which was then rear-ended by another vehicle, authorities said. Six people died and...
Dec 12 2022 // Actuarial research released last week suggests that marijuana decriminalization is not associated with a notable increase in traffic accidents or accident severity.Temporal patterns of human activity (such as yearly,...
Dec 9 2022 // Fifteen automakers have made life-saving automatic emergency braking standard on nearly all of their new passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, fulfilling a voluntary commitment made six years ago.That leaves five...
Dec 9 2022 // Allstate’s chief executive officer said his company will likely continue pushing for auto insurance rate hikes next year, and he expects the carrier’s largest mutual competitor—State Farm—to move in the...
Dec 8 2022 // The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is opening new safety probes into 1.72 million Honda vehicles, 230,000 Jeeps and 390,077 Ram trucks.The auto safety regulator said it will begin preliminary...
Dec 7 2022 // Classic car buyers in 2023 will want a diverse range of vehicles, including microcars, muscle cars, sport cars, and even exotics, according to specialty insurance provider, Hagerty.Hagerty released its 2023 U.S. Bull...
Dec 6 2022 // Apparently nothing has changed within the last several months to change AM Best’s negative outlook on the U.S. personal lines insurance segment.Tuesday the insurance industry rating agency said it was maintaining its...