All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 26 2020 // The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday sharply criticized Tesla Inc.’s lack of system safeguards in a fatal 2018 Autopilot crash in California and called U.S. regulators’ approach in overseeing the...
Feb 26 2020 // Toyota car owners can buy insurance that promises them up to 40 percent savings for safe driving.Toyota Insurance Management Solutions (TIMS) has teamed up with Nationwide to launch what they are calling TIMS BrightDrive,...
Feb 26 2020 // This week’s blog post comes to us from friend of the Academy, Joseph S. Harrington. Joe is a prolific writer, observer, and commentator on the insurance industry. This post is based on his recent Academy webinar by...
Feb 26 2020 // QIC Global, the specialty insurance and reinsurance subsidiary of Qatar Insurance Group, announced the appointment of Michael van der Straaten, as CEO of QIC Global (International), effective March 1, 2020.van der Straaten...
Feb 25 2020 // Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint, has agreed to acquire Credit Karma, the consumer technology platform, for approximately $7.1 billion in cash and stock.The combination brings together two technology...
Feb 24 2020 // A deer sent flying when it was hit by a car in southeast Iowa crashed through the window of a second car, killing its driver, the Iowa State Patrol said. The accident occurred a little after 7 p.m. Wednesday on Iowa...
Feb 24 2020 // Arizona leads the nation in auto glass claims despite being 14th in total population, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.Insurance industry data shows that between 2015 and 2019, 10% of the nation’s...
Feb 24 2020 // Allstate first disclosed its Transformative Growth Plan in December, an effort to overhaul how it does business, boost efficiency and reduce expenses. During the Illinois-based property/casualty insurer’s Q4 2019...
Feb 21 2020 // State Auto Financial Corp. 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....
Feb 20 2020 // Farmers Insurance has launched its first auto insurance product in South Carolina, delivered exclusively through a new digital and customizable auto insurance policy available on Farmersdirect.com.The digital auto...
Feb 19 2020 // RLI Transportation, a division of RLI Insurance Company, has partnered with Samsara, an industrial IoT company that provides sensors and software to manage vehicle fleets and industrial operations. The partnership will...
Feb 19 2020 // May Mobility Inc.’s boxy white-and-green self-driving shuttle pulls up to a damp corner in downtown Detroit. Its big doors swing out revealing a safety driver and six seats that face each other. It’s more...
Feb 18 2020 // Two people suffered minor injuries in a fire that destroyed a Fort Dodge, Iowa, towing and auto business in northwestern Iowa, officials said.The fire broke out in the afternoon on Feb. 14 in Mid Iowa Towing, television...
Feb 14 2020 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro responded strongly to a Consumer Federation of America report that Delaware service members may return home from deployment to increased auto insurance premiums, calling the...
Feb 14 2020 // The Auto Club Group (ACG) and AAA Carolinas have merged and combined operations, it was announced last month.With North and South Carolina part of The Auto Club Group family, the company now serves more than 13.5 million...
Feb 13 2020 // Madison, Wis.-based Understory, which offers parametric insurance for severe weather risks, has launched its supplemental hail insurance product for automotive dealers in five new states: Arizona; New Mexico; Ohio;...
Feb 13 2020 // Two years after a train carrying Republican members of Congress collided with a garbage truck, five passengers have filed lawsuits against the driver, trash company and train conductor.Dana Naylor Jr., 32, was acquitted of...
Feb 13 2020 // A young woman from Idaho who sustained a traumatic brain injury in a 2018 van crash while traveling to a Christian conference in Portland, Ore. with her youth group is suing the church and the youth pastor who was driving...
Feb 12 2020 // A U.S. House panel on Tuesday heard from advocates of imposing stricter safeguards for self-driving cars as part of any effort to speed the adoption of the vehicles on U.S. roads.At the same subcommittee hearing, groups...
Feb 11 2020 // Byron Mounce, of Puyallup, Wash., pleaded guilty in Pierce County Superior Court to one count of third-degree theft after an investigation showed it was trying to defraud his auto insurer.An investigation by Washington...