All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 23 2024 // A truck driver in Ohio has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide in a chain-reaction crash involving a charter bus filled with high school students that left six people dead and 18 injured.The crash on Interstate...
Jul 23 2024 // S&P Global Market Intelligence is forecasting a combined ratio of 99.2 for the U.S. P/C insurance industry overall in 2024, signifying a return to underwriting profitability for the first time since 2021.According to...
Jul 19 2024 // Registrations of Tesla cars in California fell 24% in the April to June period, marking the third consecutive quarter that the company posted a sales drop in its key market, indicating mounting challenges for the EV maker,...
Jul 16 2024 // Five Massachusetts residents and one New York resident have been charged in connection with a health insurance fraud scheme that allegedly involved submitting claims for more than $1 million worth of bogus medical...
Jul 15 2024 // A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists won’t be eligible to get his license back for another two years, New Hampshire safety officials said.A jury in 2022 found...
Jul 15 2024 // The commercial auto insurance segment maintained its place as a weaker-performing U.S. property/casualty insurance product line in 2023. Despite successive periods of pricing and underwriting actions, commercial auto has...
Jul 11 2024 // Fifth Third Bank agreed this week to pay a $5 million fine for illegally forcing vehicle insurance onto borrowers who had coverage. Fifth Third also agreed to pay a $15 million fine for illegal sales practices.The...
Jul 11 2024 // New classic and modern collector vehicle insurer, OpenRoad, has announced it will begin offering coverage across select U.S. states on Monday, July 15, 2024.OpenRoad will be centered around Midwest states with coverage...
Jul 8 2024 // Insurer GEICO has agreed to pay $6 million to settle claims by auto damage claims adjusters who allege the insurer failed to pay them for all hours they worked “off-the-clock.”The settlement affects 806...
Jul 5 2024 // Top U.S. automakers posted slower sales growth for the second quarter as a cyberattack at software systems provider CDK hit operations at several dealerships during the crucial selling period of late June.General Motors...
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...