Latest Auto Headlines

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Auto Insurer Windhaven National Ordered Into Liquidation by Texas Court

Mar 9 2020 // Texas-based private passenger auto insurer Windhaven National Insurance Co. (WNIC), a subsidiary of Windhaven Insurance, has been ordered into liquidation at the request of the Texas Department of Insurance, which was...

Drivers at Risk: Why Delivery Apps Might Leave Clients Without Coverage

Mar 9 2020 // Why Delivery Apps Might Leave Clients Without CoverageJust a few years ago, a grocery run or a run to Chick-fil-A was to get something you needed and bring it home. These days, it seems like a run anywhere can include a...

Logic & Language, Forms & Facts: The Case of the ‘Holey’ Insurance

Mar 9 2020 // For a number of years, I’ve done a workshop called “The Adventures of Ace Insura, Claims Detective.” Participants assist Ace in solving a variety of coverage and claims mysteries. Each case has one or...

Why Banning Rating Factors Could Hurt Auto Even More

Mar 9 2020 // Auto insurance affordability is an important issue for consumers and the industry. Insurers take a wide variety of actions to make auto insurance as affordable as possible for consumers because they recognize that its cost...

Windhaven Insurance Ceasing Operations; Texas Placing Windhaven National into Receivership

Mar 9 2020 // Auto and home insurer Windhaven Insurance has alerted its agents and employees that it is winding down the insurance operations of its entities, including Windhaven National Insurance Co., ClutchAnalytics and The Hearth...

California Father and Son Charged With Auto Insurance Fraud

Mar 9 2020 // A father and son from California have been charged with felony counts of auto insurance fraud after allegedly falsifying an insurance claim in order to receive an undeserved payout from an insurance company.The charges...

Alleged Family-Run Auto Insurance Fraud Ring Snared in California

Mar 9 2020 // California Department of Insurance detectives arrested seven suspects on 31 felony charges of auto insurance fraud for their alleged involvement in a family-run organized auto fraud ring dubbed Operation Car Seats.Suspects...

Auto Insurance Reform, Minimum Wage Hike on Louisiana Governor’s Legislative Agenda

Mar 4 2020 // Gov. John Bel Edwards said on March 2 that he would renew his fight to raise Louisiana’s minimum wage in the upcoming legislative session, but he offered little insight into whether he would agree to Republican...

Texas Insurer Hallmark Financial Exiting Binding Primary Commercial Auto Business

Mar 3 2020 // Citing loss development for prior underwriting years, Dallas-based specialty property/casualty insurer Hallmark Financial Services Inc., is exiting its Binding Primary Auto business.The commercial auto product the company...

Family-run Auto Insurance Fraud Ring Snared in ‘Operation Car Seats’ in California

Mar 3 2020 // California Department of Insurance detectives arrested seven suspects on 31 felony charges of auto insurance fraud for their alleged involvement in a family-run organized auto fraud ring dubbed Operation Car Seats.Suspects...

U.S. Lags Europe in Driver Assist Technology Safety Testing

Mar 2 2020 // Autopilot, Super Cruise and Drive Pilot are different names given to technology that automates steering and braking in a growing number of vehicles, but none of it can safely “pilot” cars without regular human...

Texas Auto Body Shop Owner Get 2 Years for Insurance Fraud

Mar 1 2020 // The owner of an auto body shop in San Antonio, Texas has been sentenced to two years in jail for cashing insurance claim checks without fixing the car he was being paid to repair. The Texas Department of Insurance said...

New Florida Law Ensures Police Officers Can Park Marked Vehicles at Home

Feb 28 2020 // Some Florida law enforcement officers have been told they aren’t allowed to park their marked cars at home, but that’s about to change.One of the first bills in the 2020 legislative session signed into law will...

Trucking Can Be Deadly. And Not Just For Truckers.: Viewpoint

Feb 28 2020 // Of the major industries for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported workplace fatality rates for 2018, truck transportation was the most dangerous, with 28 deaths per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers.To be sure,...

Q4 Earnings Briefs: State Auto, National General, Donegal, Safety, Protective

Feb 28 2020 // State Auto Financial Corp. (STFC) reported fourth-quarter net income of $32.7 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.The Columbus, Ohio-based company said it had net income of 72 cents per share....

California Father And Son Charged With Auto Insurance Fraud

Feb 28 2020 // A father and son from California have been charged with felony counts of auto insurance fraud after allegedly falsifying an insurance claim in order to receive an undeserved payout from an insurance company.The charges...

Nationwide, Generali Form Joint Venture N2G to Sell Multinational Commercial Lines

Feb 27 2020 // Trieste, Italy meet Columbus, Ohio. Ciao! Hello!Two large insurers — Ohio’s Nationwide and Italy’s Generali — are teaming up to serve commercial insurance customers with global needs. The insurers announced...

Windhaven Insurance Ceasing Operations, Assets to be Auctioned Off

Feb 27 2020 // Auto and home insurer Windhaven Insurance has alerted its agents and employees in Florida that it is winding down the insurance operations of its entities, including Windhaven National Insurance Co., ClutchAnalytics and...

Northern California Sting Brings Insurance Fraud Charges in Auto Body Repair Bust

Feb 27 2020 // An operation by a crime task force in Northern California targeting auto body repair facilities resulted in eight felony counts of insurance fraud against four individualsThe California Department of Insurance, Contra...

Idaho Man Sentenced for Fabricating Bill of Sale on $700 Mercedes

Feb 27 2020 // An Idaho man was sentenced for insurance fraud in violation of Idaho code after reportedly purchasing a 1992 Mercedes for $700 and then adding the vehicle to an existing policy with GEICO.Hester then filed a claim for...