All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2024 // ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta City Council has approved the payment of a settlement of $2 million to two college students who were shocked with Tasers and pulled from a car while they were stuck in downtown traffic caused...
Jul 1 2024 // The auto insurance and repair industry must “adapt to new patterns and prepare for an unpredictable future,” according to the Crash Course Q2 2024 report released by CCC Intelligent Solutions Inc., a P/C cloud...
Jul 1 2024 // The trust factor is critical in the insurance purchasing process. When customers trust their insurance provider they feel more satisfied with the insurance buying process even in the face of rising rates.That’s...
Jul 1 2024 // The U.S. personal insurance sector is positioned for improving underwriting performance in 2024.According to Fitch’s latest U.S. Personal Lines Market Update, the change is predicted amid signs that the previous...
Jul 1 2024 // A new Rhode Island law prohibits auto insurers from charging policyholders more solely because they have been widowed.The new law bans insurers from treating widows or widowers any differently than married people in terms...
Jun 28 2024 // An employee at the Virginia Department of Health who was seriously injured when a vehicle crashed through the wall of her first floor office is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits.The Virginia...
Jun 25 2024 // Nearly a decade after it began working on self-driving vehicles, Uber Technologies Inc. plans to haul freight fully autonomously for the first time later this year through an expansion of an earlier deal with Aurora...
Jun 25 2024 // A hacking group called BlackSuit is behind the cyberattack on CDK Global that’s paralyzed car sales across the US, according to Allan Liska, a threat analyst at the security firm Recorded Future Inc.The cybercrime...
Jun 21 2024 // High claim severities, persistent risky driving behavior, electric vehicles and shop-and-swap consumers are challenging auto insurers to stay profitable.The challenges will continue through the end of the year and beyond,...
Jun 20 2024 // Thousands of car dealerships were ground to a halt during a normally busy holiday Wednesday by a cyber incident at CDK Global, a major software provider for dealers across the US.The company “shut all systems down...
Jun 17 2024 // In May, Florida’s chief financial officer sent out a notice that he had appointed new members to the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association’s board of directors. Just a week later, though, one of those...
Jun 17 2024 // Louisiana lawmakers passed a series of auto insurance reform bills that aim to bring availability and competition to the market by cutting down on excessive verdicts and settlements.Legislators passed four bills endorsed...
Jun 12 2024 // Rate increases do not necessarily erode customer satisfaction with auto insurers, according to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Auto Insurance Study.The consumer intelligence company reported that when customers have a high level...
Jun 11 2024 // A police investigator concluded no criminal charges were warranted after a lobster-themed monster truck clipped a power line, causing some scary moments with live wires falling to the ground. Two people were taken to...
Jun 10 2024 // Car maker Stellantis has preventively extended a recall of vehicles with potentially faulty airbags to more Citroen and DS models, as well as the Opel brand, spokespeople for the carmaker told Reuters on Friday.Citroen C4,...
Jun 7 2024 // A Colorado woman who was seriously injured when a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in which she sat handcuffed has reached an $8.5 million settlement, a lawyer representing two of the involved police officers...
Jun 7 2024 // The U.S. personal insurance sector is positioned for improving underwriting performance in 2024.According to Fitch’s latest U.S. Personal Lines Market Update, the change is predicted amid signs that the previous...
Jun 6 2024 // A new Rhode Island law prohibits auto insurers from charging policyholders more solely because they have been widowed.The new law bans insurers from treating widows or widowers any differently than married people in terms...
Jun 5 2024 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced that a Kansas man has been sentenced to six months of probation for insurance fraud. Robert Heidbreder, age 30, pleaded guilty in the District Court of Sedgwick County...
Jun 5 2024 // TOPSHAM, Maine (AP) — A lobster-themed monster truck performing for spectators in Maine clipped an aerial power line, toppling several utility poles and sending two people to hospitals, police said. Others suffered minor...