All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sep 14 2020 // Hagerty, based in Traverse City, Mich., has added Laura Hunter to its Brand team as vice president of Brand Communications.Reporting to Soon Hagerty, senior vice president of Brand, Hunter oversee public relations,...
Sep 14 2020 // Economic uncertainty and volatility, in combination with COVID-19-related losses, is leading to a heightened level of cautiousness among property reinsurers unless pricing and terms and conditions meet specific thresholds,...
Sep 10 2020 // Canada’s property/casualty insurance industry thus far has fared better than its life counterpart amid the economic and market dynamics created by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an AM Best report.In its...
Sep 8 2020 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has dismissed as “fiction” a recent study published by San Diego State University that ties the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August to a massive surge in COVID-19 cases and...
Sep 8 2020 // One claim dispute I was involved with I refer to in seminars as “The Unimpeachable Case of What ‘Are’ Is.” It illustrates how a single word, even the tense of a verb, in a policy form can make all...
Sep 8 2020 // Dallas-based Risk Point Underwriters LLC has named Scott A. Hoy executive vice president for the specialty auto dealer underwriting unit. Hoy will be responsible for driving profitable growth and delivering customer...
Sep 8 2020 // An 18-year-old can’t buy a beer in most U.S. states, but pretty soon he or she may be able to drive a commercial truck across state lines — and that has safety advocates alarmed.The Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
Sep 8 2020 // Elephant Insurance is now offering discounted car insurance rates to customers working from home.Policyholders and spouses working from home and driving less are eligible to receive the new discount, depending on the...
Sep 8 2020 // Berkley One has launched its Collector Vehicle product in Minnesota and and made rating enhancements to its coverage in Michigan.Berkley has provided collector vehicle owners coverage since 1974 and most recently...