All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2022 // LONDON — Where you go. What you pass. Where you stop. What you listen to. What you watch. Your good habits. Your bad habits.Companies in Europe and beyond are vying for control of the crown jewels of the connected...
Mar 15 2022 // First Chicago Insurance Company announced it recently launched its augmented commercial auto insurance program in Illinois and Indiana. The program covers owned or leased Vehicles, hired autos, non-owned, temporary...
Mar 11 2022 // At the end of an interview with the founder of Quantiv Risk, an insurtech that helps carriers make sense of performance data from vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems, Carrier Management posed a big picture...
Mar 10 2022 // Tesla and other car makers represent a growing threat to incumbent auto insurers, even though they have little direct impact on the insurance market today, Moody’s Investors Services said.In a report titled,...
Mar 10 2022 // Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state’s top insurance regulator said Monday that a $3 billion transfer of surplus funds from the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association to car insurers will be completed this week. The...
Mar 8 2022 // US Insurers — already hammered by extraordinary losses caused by natural disasters — are also failing to raise premiums at a pace that matches an historic inflation rate, the American Property Casualty Insurance...
Mar 7 2022 // Vermont State Police say the recent multi-car pileup on I-89 likely was the largest motor vehicle crash in state history. Thirty-six vehicles were directly involved in the crash Feb. 28 in heavy and blowing snow and icy...
Mar 7 2022 // Auto insurance pricing is complex, challenging carriers to deliver competitive rates that effectively balance risk with profit potential.Fortunately, the evolution of telematics has streamlined the pricing process to...
Mar 7 2022 // Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her head-on, killing her.She is one of the...
Mar 7 2022 // The insurance industry is ringing alarm bells about the cost of social inflation again, this time with the help of an actuarial analysis that concludes the phenomenon added more than $20 billion to the cost of commercial...
Mar 4 2022 // A second Kansas City worker has died from injuries after a trash truck crashed and caught fire, police said.The crash happened the morning of March 1 as the trash truck tried to exit Interstate 435 onto Front Street in...
Mar 4 2022 // Las Vegas police have agreed to a $300,000 settlement with the estate of a California man who said he was illegally questioned by officers during a traffic stop of a van carrying members of a motorcycle club.James Iiams, a...
Mar 4 2022 // Property and auto insurers in Australia have received 60,163 claims related to the ongoing disastrous flooding in South-East Queensland and New South Wales. Based on previous flood events, the Insurance Council of...
Mar 3 2022 // The family of a little girl who was killed when her mother’s car was rear-ended by a Jeep on a Phoenix freeway can sue the SUV’s manufacturer for wrongful death because it did not install automatic emergency...
Mar 3 2022 // The Delaware Insurance Department has issued a report critical of the use of gender in auto insurance rating and concluding that the state should end the practice as six other states have done.The report found that several...
Mar 1 2022 // The families of two Houston residents killed in a series of recent traffic accidents involving local law enforcement said Feb. 24 they believe their loved ones’ deaths are part of an ongoing problem with police...
Mar 1 2022 // Liberty Mutual Insurance said it completed the all-cash deal of about $1 billion for super-regional insurer State Auto Group.The transaction was originally announced in July 2021. Now that it gained all required regulatory...
Mar 1 2022 // The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Monday issued permits to self-driving units of General Motors and Alphabet Inc. to allow for passenger service in autonomous vehicles with safety drivers present.CPUC...
Feb 25 2022 // With unfavorable development and product mix changes propelling fourth-quarter and full-year loss 2021 ratios into the 90s—up 20 points over comparable 2020 periods—Lemonade guided shareholders that results will get...
Feb 25 2022 // The fire on the cargo ship Felicity Ace, which had burned for more than a week, is likely extinguished and the vessel is now being towed, according to the operator MOL Ship Management.The ship had been transporting...