All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...