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Plymouth Rock Assurance Launches Motorcycle Insurance in N.J., Pennsylvania

Oct 1 2020 // Plymouth Rock Assurance launched motorcycle insurance for riders across New Jersey and Pennsylvania.The launch of the product comes than a year after the company acquired Rider Insurance Co., which has focused on the...

Police Say Connecticut Workplace Shooter Extradited, Charged with Assault

Sep 28 2020 // A truck driver accused of shooting his boss and wounding another person outside a Connecticut industrial building was charged Wednesday with assault and other crimes after being brought back from Massachusetts, where...

Texas Agency, A-MAX Auto, Expands in Houston Area

Sep 28 2020 // Dallas-based A-MAX Auto Insurance has opened two new locations opening in the Houston, Texas, area.With the two new locations — one in Houston and one in nearby Tomball, Texas, the company now has 193 offices statewide....

Reinsurance Demand Rises, Along with Flight to Quality, Say Industry Experts

Sep 28 2020 // Not only has reinsurance buying increased, but there also has been a flight to quality reinsurers by ceding insurance companies, according to several reinsurers and brokers in recent webinars held in lieu of what would...

1 Dead After Ohio Dump Truck Crash Sends Highway Sign Falling Onto Pickup

Sep 25 2020 // A dump truck struck the base of a sign on a Cleveland, Ohio, highway during the morning commute on Sept. 24, causing the sign to fall on a passing pickup truck and kill one person in the pickup, authorities said,The Ohio...

California Governor Planning to Ban Sale of New Gas Vehicles in 15 Years

Sep 25 2020 // California will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in 15 years, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, establishing a timeline in the nation’s most populous state that could force U.S....

Congress Parks Self-Driving Car Regulation Until 2021

Sep 24 2020 // The U.S. Congress will try again in 2021 to try to approve long-stalled reforms to speed the adoption of self-driving cars, a key Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday.U.S. lawmakers have been divided for years over how to...

Michigan Man Faces Felony Charges Over Alleged Fake Auto Insurance Certificates

Sep 23 2020 // A formerly licensed insurance agent in Flint, Michigan, faces multiple felony charges for allegedly selling fraudulent automobile insurance certificates.The Michigan Department of Financial Services (DIFS) said 24-year old...

Texas Auto Insurance Plan Association Requests 4.8% Commercial Rate Hike

Sep 23 2020 // The Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) has filed a request with the Texas Department of Insurance to charge new insurance rates for commercial automobiles. The filed rates represent a 4.8% increase in...

Toyota Insurance in Europe Joins Swiss Re’s Vehicle Risk Rating System

Sep 23 2020 // Toyota is the newest partner in the Swiss Re platform that provides a risk score on vehicles so insurers can develop premiums that reflect new safety features.Through this partnership with Toyota Insurance Services...

Abandoned Vehicles a Common Problem in Omaha, Nebraska, Neighborhoods

Sep 22 2020 // The blue SUV had been parked in front of the Omaha Bike Project near 33rd and California Streets, with its windows down, for more than three months.After multiple calls to the Mayor’s Hotline failed to yield results,...

9 More Indicted in Louisiana Truck/Auto Staged Accident Schemes

Sep 21 2020 // With the addition of nine new indictments, 28 people now have been charged in a federal probe into the staging of automobile accidents in Louisiana, according to U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.The nine defendants were...

MetLife Looks to Sell P&C Auto and Home Insurance Business: KBW Analysts

Sep 20 2020 // MetLife is pursuing a sale of its property/casualty auto and home insurance business, according to a report by analysts following the companyKeefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) analysts, Ryan Krueger and Meyer Shields, said...

In a First, State Farm to Acquire Texas Nonstandard Auto Insurer GAINSCO

Sep 17 2020 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is acquiring Dallas-based nonstandard auto insurer, GAINSCO, in a $400 million cash transaction. It will be the first time in State Farm’s 98-year history that it has...

Rental Car Company to Pay $80K in Penalties, Implement Reforms Over Fraud Allegations

Sep 17 2020 // A discount car rental company operating out of Newark and JFK Airports has agreed to pay $80,000 in penalties, enter binding arbitration to resolve consumer complaints and change its policies and practices following New...

House Democrats Ask Why Auto Safety Rules Are Delayed

Sep 17 2020 // Three senior Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday asked government auditors to study why U.S. auto safety regulators have failed to write dozens of new auto safety regulations.The delayed rules...

South Dakota AG Thought He Hit a Deer; It Was a Man

Sep 16 2020 // South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said in a statement late on Sept. 14 that he realized he had struck and killed a man walking along a rural stretch of highway only after returning to the scene the next day and...

Uber Backup Driver Faces Homicide Charges in Fatal 2018 Arizona Crash

Sep 16 2020 // The back-up safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber Technologies test vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 was charged with negligent homicide, prosecutors said on Tuesday.Rafael...

Pennsylvania Authorities Arrest Alleged Fraud Network Participants

Sep 15 2020 // Pennsylvania authorities filed criminal charges on July 13 in Dauphin County against Kenneth Torres, Louis Torres, Ruth Negron-Acevedo, Juan Lopez-Barco and Philadelphia-based businesses EZ Multi-Services and Saul Auto...

NHC: Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens to Hurricane

Sep 14 2020 // Update 4:00 pm EST: Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a hurricane ahead of expected landfall on Tuesday, the...