All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2022 // United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Ishais Price, age 41, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, before...
Jun 15 2022 // Lemonade announced the launch of car insurance in Ohio, making the Buckeye State the third state to feature availability of Lemonade‘s newest environment-friendly product.The New York-based insurtech pledges to offer...
Jun 8 2022 // Five people were killed and five others injured after a large truck collided with a van belonging to school serving disabled adults in southeast Arkansas, authorities said.The crash happened Monday afternoon on U.S. 65...
Jun 6 2022 // J.D. Power found in a recent survey that auto insurance customer satisfaction with price has plummeted, driving a surge in policy shopping activity while dragging on the purchase experience index.“A perfect storm of...
Jun 3 2022 // Professional golfer Bart Bryant, who once beat Tiger Woods by six shots to collect the biggest paycheck of his career, was killed when a truck slammed into his SUV while he was stopped in a line of vehicles on a central...
Jun 3 2022 // On May 5, a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe sold for $142 million during an auction at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. It was the highest price ever paid for a car at auction, soundly beating the...
Jun 2 2022 // The New York State Senate has passed a measure (S.6028) that seeks to eliminate the photo inspection requirement for drivers wanting to buy comprehensive and collision auto insurance coverage.The Assembly approved a...
Jun 1 2022 // Two people were killed and 20 others were injured after a crash that sent two cars careening into a crowd of bystanders at an annual Memorial Day weekend “cruise” night in Nebraska’s capital, police said...
May 25 2022 // J.D. Power found in a recent survey that auto insurance customer satisfaction with price has plummeted, driving a surge in policy shopping activity while dragging on the purchase experience index.“A perfect storm of...
May 24 2022 // TransUnion’s latest Personal Lines Insurance Shopping Report found the number of consumers who accepted a telematics offer from their auto insurance provider increased 33% since the end of 2021—a trend driven by...
May 20 2022 // Hub Launches Nonprofit Specialty PracticeInsurance broker Hub International, with decades of experience in the sector, has launched a nonprofit specialty practice to serve the risk management, insurance and human capital...
May 20 2022 // Insurers waited too long to intervene in anti-trust litigation that brought settlements requiring dozens of auto parts manufacturers to pay a total of $1.2 billion to resolve price-fixing allegations, a panel of the U.S....
May 18 2022 // A major water leak in central Japan on Wednesday disrupted supply to more than 130 businesses near the production center of Toyota Motor Corp.The accident in Japan’s manufacturing heartland threatened interruptions...
May 11 2022 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced this week that auto insurers should have issued the last of $400 per eligible vehicle insurance refunds by May 9 and that any residents who have not received their refund should...
May 11 2022 // It’s not just homeowners insurance costs that are high in Florida. A new report shows that Floridians continue to pay some of the largest auto coverage premiums in the country.The BankRate 2022 report shows that the...
May 9 2022 // An armored car company has settled its lawsuit that accused the San Bernardino County sheriff of illegally seizing over $1 million in cash it was transporting from medical marijuana businesses in California.The settlement...
May 6 2022 // Rate increases in Allstate’s auto insurance business are in integral part of the insurer’s overall plan to address the impact of inflation.Wednesday during a conference call with analysts to discuss...
May 5 2022 // Boston-based Safety Insurance Group, Inc. reported first quarter 2022 results showing net income of $7.8 million, compared to $36.2 million for the comparable 2021 period, as auto insurance claim frequency returned to...
May 4 2022 // First quarter 2022 insurance premiums earned grew 6.5% to about $11 billion at Allstate Corp., as net income was $630 million compared with a loss of about $1.4 billion during the first three months of 2021.CEO Tom Wilson...
May 3 2022 // There wasn’t a lot of talk about auto insurance at this year’s annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, but when the subject came up, Warren Buffett acknowledged the continued dominance of one competitor—a...