All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 27 2020 // At least 23 companies selling auto insurance in New Hampshire are returning premium to their policyholders, New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Chris Nicolopoulos announced.These companies represent more than 90% of the...
Apr 24 2020 // The Concord Group Insurance Companies has announced a plan to deliver $2,400,000 in return premium and expand several underwriting guidelines and coverage limits to its more than 150,000 policyholders throughout the four...
Apr 24 2020 // Two consumer groups said on Thursday that some of the largest U.S. auto insurers, including billionaire Warren Buffett’s Geico Corp., are short-changing customers on premium rebates as Americans drive less due to...
Apr 24 2020 // The group of property/casualty insurers offering auto insurance premium discounts to recognize that insureds are driving less during the coronavirus crisis continues to grow, and now includes all major auto insurers. Most...
Apr 23 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies (State Auto) and Rural Mutual Insurance Co., headquartered in Madison, Wis., have announced plans to offer auto insurance policyholders with premium relief as a result of...
Apr 23 2020 // Preferred Mutual Insurance Company has announced its Stay Home, Stay Assured Auto Program, which will provide more than 65,000 customers with a 15% credit on their April and May personal auto insurance premiums.The credit...
Apr 22 2020 // The self-driving car was a dream deferred even before the Covid-19 outbreak brought the U.S. economy to a standstill. By early 2020, plans to launch robotaxi services had been pushed back or scaled down as excitement over...
Apr 22 2020 // Erie Insurance, based in Erie, Penn., will provide $200 million in dividends directly to personal and commercial auto insurance customers in the 12 states and the District of Columbia where the company does business. This...
Apr 22 2020 // North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance will provide a 20% dividend payment to its automobile policyholders for April and May 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.The company announced the “Here for You Promise”...
Apr 20 2020 // More Midwest-based insurers are offering premium payment relief to their auto insurance customers as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis.Branch Insurance, Grange Insurance, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Ohio Mutual...
Apr 17 2020 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office has called on the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) to direct all auto insurance companies doing business in the state to lower premiums during the...
Apr 17 2020 // NYCM Insurance will be issuing a credit to its approximately 230,000 auto policyholders. All auto policyholders as of April 30, 2020, will receive a 15% credit back from their April and May premiums. Customers will not...
Apr 16 2020 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance says collectively auto insurers will return more than $187 million in premium to drivers in the state in the form of refunds and rebates on auto insurance policies.Insurance...
Apr 16 2020 // Auto insurers have seen something new with the coronavirus pandemic: an historic reduction in driving due to millions of customers staying home and sheltering in place. That change led to carriers issuing between $8...
Apr 16 2020 // As a result of changing driving habits due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the member companies of the Utica National Insurance Group have announced that they will provide policyholders with a 15 percent payback of their...
Apr 15 2020 // Safety Insurance has announced a premium reduction plan and several other steps to meet policyholder and community needs during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.The Safety Personal Auto Relief Credit offers eligible Safety...
Apr 15 2020 // The owners of AmGeneral Insurance Bhd., Malaysia’s second-biggest auto insurer, have restarted a sale process and are seeking as much as $1 billion for the company, people with knowledge of the matter said.Kuala...
Apr 15 2020 // Farm Bureau Insurance of Tennessee said it will issue $30 million in special payments to its auto policyholders in the state in response to economic stresses caused by the coronavirus emergency.The special payment is based...
Apr 15 2020 // Nonprofits Insurance Alliance (NIA), a nationwide insurer exclusively serving 501(c)(3) nonprofits, has introduced auto coverage that reimburses California nonprofits for payments made to their employees for auto physical...
Apr 15 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based Encova Insurance plans to issue a 15% policy credit to more than 80,000 personal auto policyholders for the months of April and May.Data has continued to show that as fewer vehicles are on the road due...