All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 24 2021 // If the owner of a trucking company drives one of his company’s trucks to a friend’s house for free repairs, is that considered a business use of the truck, or personal use?The Georgia Supreme Court effectively...
Nov 24 2021 // Players in the U.S. nonstandard auto insurance segment may find that return to pre-pandemic norms, with greater loss-cost pressures along with elevated inflation and supply chain issues, may counteract recent positive...
Nov 23 2021 // Reliance Global Group, which utilizes artificial intelligence and data mining to assist agents in writing auto insurance policies, announced it has launched 5MinuteInsure.com in Tennessee, its fifth new state in recent...
Nov 22 2021 // A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was indicted for allegedly causing fraudulent automobile insurance applications to be submitted on his behalf in an attempt to avoid paying the policy premiums.John A. Loor (also known as...
Nov 16 2021 // Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that drivers should save on average between 25-62% on the PIP medical portion of their auto policies compared to the previous year.The lower premiums continue a trend of declining...
Nov 15 2021 // The U.S. commercial auto insurance market turned in results for 2020 that were the best it has seen in several years, although it still did not achieve an underwriting profit.Despite several years of price increases and...
Nov 15 2021 // U.S. auto safety regulators are looking into a complaint from a Tesla driver that the company’s “Full Self-Driving” software caused a crash.The driver was beta testing the “Full Self-Driving”...
Nov 12 2021 // Almost a third of the U.S. cities with the highest percentage of drivers with prior automobile accidents are in the Southeast, according to a study by Insurify, an insurance data-analysis and rate comparison firm.The city...
Nov 10 2021 // The U.S. auto safety regulator announced on Tuesday its first-ever reward to a whistleblower, handing out more than $24 million to a former Hyundai Motor Co. employee who provided key information about safety lapses at the...
Nov 9 2021 // Digital insurer Lemonade plans to acquire California-based pay-per-mile auto insurance startup Metromile in an all-stock transaction as it continues to expand, Carrier Management reported.With the agreement, the New...
Nov 8 2021 // Women 35 and older tend to pay more for automobile insurance, especially in Florida and Alaska, an insurtech company study found.Young men usually pay much more than young women do for car insurance. But by age 35, women...
Nov 3 2021 // Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), a subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Southwest Truck Insurance Agency, Inc., an independent agency in Irving, Texas. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 1986, Southwest Truck...
Nov 3 2021 // Home, renters and pet insurer Lemonade is deploying its artificial intelligence, behavioral economics and social good mantra with its newest product, Lemonade Car.Lemonade Car is designed to offer better auto insurance...
Nov 2 2021 // A proposed bill was heard last month in the Massachusetts legislature that aims to place a time limit on auto insurance claims investigations and would make investigating insurers responsible for premium payments until the...
Nov 1 2021 // Cameras are everywhere these days, a Florida man learned after authorities say he faked the theft of a pricey motorcycle in order to gain an insurance payout.Jeffrey Stephens, 27, was arrested Friday on fraud charges, the...
Nov 1 2021 // A Missouri woman is suing GEICO after contracting a sexually transmitted disease in a car insured by the company.The woman, identified in District Court documents as M.O., had a sexual relationship with the insured, M.B.,...
Nov 1 2021 // You may have heard and even laughed about GEICO being sued by a Missouri woman who contracted a sexually transmitted disease (STD) as a result of unprotected sex in a GEICO-insured vehicle. Beyond the sheer inventiveness...
Oct 29 2021 // Officials on Wednesday were investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a large building that housed several businesses in southern New Jersey.Flames broke out Tuesday night and quickly spread throughout the US Auto...
Oct 27 2021 // The injured party in an automobile collision cannot double-dip on insurance coverage simply because she calls the payment from the other driver’s policy “punitive damages,” a Georgia appeals court has...
Oct 22 2021 // Late last month in New Castle County, Delaware, a grand jury indicted multiple residents for insurance fraud.The indictments stem from Department of Insurance Fraud Prevention Bureau investigations, in partnership with the...