All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2020 // General Motors Co. on Wednesday launched an auto insurance program with the help of its OnStar subsidiary, joining a growing field of companies hoping to cash in on the vast amounts of data generated by increasingly...
Nov 18 2020 // Jaskaran Singh Gill, of Tukwila, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court in Washington with two counts of first-degree theft, one count of second-degree theft and four counts of filing a false insurance claim...
Nov 17 2020 // Co-workers Rajdeep Singh, 35, of Rocklin, Calif., and David Bailey, Jr., 29, of Sacramento, were arrested on multiple counts of insurance fraud and arson after allegedly conspiring to commit vehicular arson in order to...
Nov 17 2020 // Chicago, IL, November 13, 2020 – Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (“PPCI”) successfully resolved a trucking case that went to jury trial in Florida resulting in a jury verdict of just under...
Nov 16 2020 // Jamil Reinery Flores, 39, and Nelly Patricia Turcios, 32, a married couple from Fullerton, Calif., were charged with multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting when a car accident occurred in...
Nov 16 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has approved the request by the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) for a 4.8% increase in commercial auto rates, with an effective date of March 1, 2021.TAIPA...
Nov 13 2020 // Lemonade plans to start selling term life insurance in the next 90 days, adding to its current rental, homeowners and pet insurance offerings, the company said in an earnings report this week.During an investor conference...
Nov 12 2020 // A judge on Monday ordered an auto parts manufacturer to pay $1.5 million after admitting violating federal safety standards before a worker was crushed to death by a robotic machine.The Department of Justice announced the...
Nov 10 2020 // Juan Camilo Vargas, 62, of Escondido, Calif., was arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and reporting a false vehicle theft after allegedly misrepresenting when and where his vehicle was stolen from in...
Nov 10 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic comes with one bright spot for workers’ compensation insurers: Fewer workers are being injured in motor vehicle accidents.A research brief issued by the National Council on Compensation...
Nov 9 2020 // An Indiana retailer of musical instruments is seeking the public’s help after a pallet of limited-edition guitars worth tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a suburban Indianapolis truck stop.Sweetwater...
Nov 9 2020 // A New York man has been charged with arson and other crimes after allegedly setting fire to vehicles in a tow yard and filing an insurance claim to collect the cash.Egor Spiridonov, of Broad Channel, Queens, has been...
Nov 5 2020 // Tesla recently made headlines with the beta launch of its Full Self-Driving system. That system comes with a disclaimer saying, “It may do the wrong thing at the worst time, so you must always keep your hands on the...
Nov 5 2020 // The U.S. property/casualty industry saw 13 new insurance company impairments in 2019, two more than in 2018, involving entities operating in a mix of lines of business and a variety of states, according to a new AM Best...
Nov 2 2020 // The reform of Michigan’s auto insurance market, which went into effect on July 1, 2020, brought the promise of much-needed premium relief for Michigan drivers.An April 2019 study by the Insurance Research Council...
Nov 2 2020 // A Travis County, Texas, judge has approved an order placing a Houston-based nonstandard auto insurer into receivership.On Oct. 21, Travis County District Judge Tim Sulak signed the application by the Texas Department of...
Nov 2 2020 // The race for driverless autonomous vehicles is heating up and in October, Cruise became the first to receive a permit to test cars without anyone in them on the streets of San Francisco from California’s Department...
Nov 2 2020 // I’m not sure when I first wrote about this month’s coverage issue, though I’m sure it was at least 13 years ago and probably earlier. This is the time of year when auto collisions with deer begin to peak...
Nov 2 2020 // Safety features such as automatic emergency braking and forward collision warnings could prevent more than 40% of crashes in which semis rear-end other vehicles, a new study has found.The Insurance Institute for Highway...
Oct 30 2020 // Self-driving tech company Waymo, which this month opened its driverless taxi service in the Phoenix suburbs to the public, on Friday said its autonomous vehicles there had been involved in 18 minor incidents since 2019...