All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2021 // President Joe Biden plans to nominate the No. 2 auto safety official and a former California Air Resources Board official to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the White House confirmed on...
Oct 19 2021 // The risk of an injury is higher for horse riding than for other potentially risky sporting activities, such as football, motor racing or skiing.That’s according to research published in the online journal Trauma...
Oct 19 2021 // Third quarter profit fell 20% at The Travelers Companies due to higher catastrophe and auto losses but the insurer also reported a 15% boost in investment returns.Net income of $662 million for the third quarter compared...
Oct 19 2021 // After their 16-year-old daughter died in a car crash, David and Wendy Mills wondered whether she would be alive if federal rules on rear seat belt warnings had been issued on time.Four years later, with no rule and traffic...
Oct 18 2021 // For three centuries, a handful of insurers have dominated the market from the City of London. The upstart intent on challenging them rents two floors just outside the district in an area known as Silicon Roundabout, where...
Oct 14 2021 // An Austin luxury car dealer has been sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for terminating an employee who warned managers and other co-workers about potential coronavirus hazards in the workplace.The action follows an OSHA...
Oct 14 2021 // Mercury Insurance is reporting a dramatic increase in vehicle vandalism and auto theft in California, with comprehensive auto insurance claims reportedly up 40% since pre-pandemic levels.While the increase in theft and...
Oct 11 2021 // Tesla will launch its own brand of auto insurance in Texas this week, founder Elon Musk said during a Oct. 7 shareholders call addressing the company’s headquarters relocation from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas.In...
Oct 11 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.,...
Oct 6 2021 // A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 180 days in the Essex County Correctional Facility as a condition of probation for committing insurance fraud when he staged a motor vehicle accident in Newark, New Jersey.James E. Payne...
Oct 4 2021 // Four Southern states have some of the least affordable automobile insurance rates in the country, according to a recently published affordability index by the Insurance Research Council (IRC).The index measures the...
Oct 4 2021 // Louisiana has the least affordable auto insurance in the United States according to a recently published affordability index by Insurance Research Council (IRC).IRC’s affordability index measures the proportion of...
Sep 29 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials say a Ravenna, Ohio, aluminum parts manufacturer with a history of safety violations now faces $1,671,738 in penalties for 38 safety and health violations following an investigation into...
Sep 28 2021 // A group of 21 state attorneys general, the District of Columbia, and several major U.S. cities urged the Biden administration to finalize significantly stricter vehicle emissions rules than it has proposed.The U.S....
Sep 23 2021 // Just Insure, a pay-per-mile insurance technology company that uses telematics to reward safe drivers and reduce insurer bias, announced it has raised $8 million, bringing its total funding amount to $15 million.The new...
Sep 22 2021 // Why are U.S. auto safety regulators opening a new investigation into Takata air bag inflators installed in millions of vehicles built over the past 20 years?Some of those vehicles have the original inflators that were...
Sep 20 2021 // Self-driving startup Argo AI, automaker Ford Motor Co. and Walmart Inc. will together launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami, Austin, and Washington, D.C, the companies said on Wednesday [Sept. 15].Initial...
Sep 20 2021 // U.S. commercial auto insurers face some blips and disruptions on their road to profitability due to inflation and the spotty post-pandemic economic recovery.According to a Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings report,...
Sep 20 2021 // Usage-based personal auto insurance may be drawing ever-increasing attention. Its wider adoption is stymied, however, by customer age and demographics, privacy concerns, misunderstanding about the technology, and even...
Sep 17 2021 // About 40 vehicles have been destroyed or damaged during a fire in an Indianapolis auto yard.The blaze initially was reported about 1:45 a.m. on Sept. 15 as a trash fire, according to the Indianapolis Fire Department....