All the headlines from our Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 16 2019 // Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday delayed plans to begin in June a comprehensive review of a valuable band of spectrum reserved for vehicles to communicate with one another.Pai on Tuesday had...
May 15 2019 // The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to vote in June on launching a new review of a key spectrum band reserved for automakers that could boost Wi-Fi use, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.In 1999,...
May 15 2019 // Detectives with the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit – Houma Field Office are asking for the public’s help in locating three people wanted for felony fraud in a case involving an alleged...
May 14 2019 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara plans to hold an investigatory hearing into how insurers’ use of occupational, educational, and other groups for setting automobile insurance rates affects insurance...
May 14 2019 // The Trump administration said Monday it will drop rules first proposed in 2012 that would have required automakers to install brake-throttle override systems to prevent runaway vehicles.The regulation was proposed by the...
May 13 2019 // The state with the highest car insurance premiums in the country is on the verge of a political showdown over long-running efforts to cut rates by reining in generous medical benefits.Auto-friendly Michigan, which is among...
May 10 2019 // The Republican-led Michigan House early on May 9 approved a plan to reduce the state’s high auto insurance premiums, moving to no longer require that drivers buy unlimited medical benefits through their car insurer...
May 10 2019 // The first major self-driving taxi service needed six months to reach 1,000 customers, another sign that growth may be slow as companies try to build businesses around autonomous vehicles.Waymo, the self-driving project...
May 9 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is lowering its rates in Kansas, for the second time in two years.As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 2.3 percent. The total state-wide expected impact for...
May 8 2019 // Michigan’s Senate has passed legislation aimed at cutting the country’s highest average auto insurance premiums by eliminating a requirement that drivers buy unlimited medical benefits to cover crash...
May 8 2019 // Competition is tightening across the P&C insurance market. With just 2 percent of new consumers entering the personal lines auto insurance market last year, and with retention rates hovering around 88 percent, most...
May 7 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Saturday said gains in its stock investments were behind its good first-quarter profit. Better results from its GEICO auto insurer and BNSF railroad units boosted operating results.The...
May 7 2019 // New York State Police have arrested Jonathan A Schuyler, 23, of Fort Plain, N.Y., for the felonies of arson in the third degree and insurance fraud in the third degree, according to a press release issued by The New York...
May 7 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Chair Warren Buffett said he isn’t worried about recent assertions by Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk that the electric car maker could offer a more compelling insurance product than traditional...
May 6 2019 // Fifteen Southern California chiropractors have been charged with a $6 million insurance and kickback scheme involving phony car crash medical claims. Los Angeles County prosecutors announced that the chiropractors are...
May 6 2019 // Oklahoma would establish rules regulating how to safely operate driverless vehicles navigating state highways under a bill passed by Legislature that has been sent to the governor’s office.Autonomous vehicles are...
May 3 2019 // Dozens of Indiana auto dealerships face lawsuits that accuse them of charging excessive fees to prepare sales-related documents.At least seven lawsuits, all pursuing class-action status, were filed in April, the...
May 2 2019 // Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered a review of how Michigan’s auto insurers use non-driving factors such as education and credit scores to set premiums that rank among the nation’s highest.The Democrat’s...
May 2 2019 // Tesla Inc. was sued over a fatal crash on a California highway allegedly caused when the Autopilot system of a 2017 Model X malfunctioned and steered the car into a concrete barrier.The case was filed just two days after...
May 2 2019 // Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. has entered the North Carolina commercial auto markets as an admitted carrier specializing in insurance for distressed and substandard risks.PPCI offers the capacity to insure...