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Mar 4 2024 // The auto insurance market is tough and varied. Totaled auto losses are up, down or relatively stable, depending on the data source.Ever since the personal auto segment recorded a combined ratio of 112 in 2022 – a figure...
May 6 2024 // New technologies and rising labor costs are putting pressure on auto insurance carriers and auto repairers by making repairs more costly and increasing repair times, trends that a new report asserts are...
Nov 4 2024 // The U.S. trucking industry has been shaken to its foundations. A welter of external challenges catalyzed the failure of approximately 88,000 trucking firms in 2023. That is 10% of the nation’s trucking companies.The...
Dec 13 2024 // Standing in his front yard in Wilmington, Jose Ulloa can’t get a sentence out without coughing. Heavy-duty trucks, headed to and from the Port of Los Angeles, pass in front of his home all day, their engines roaring...
Jan 22 2024 // A power line fell on a parked car in northeast Portland, Oregon, killing three people and injuring a baby during an ice storm that turned roads and mountain highways treacherous in the Pacific Northwest.Shortly before noon...
Sep 25 2024 // At the 2016 dedication of the first state-sponsored electric vehicle charging station in Beatty, former Gov. Brian Sandoval demonstrated how easy it was to charge an electric Ford Focus.“This is the first electric...
May 15 2024 // A man injured when he was hit by a car while he was operating a low speed Segway electric scooter is not entitled to personal injury protection (PIP) benefits under New Jersey’s no-fault auto insurance law, the...
Jan 3 2025 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Seven years ago, New Orleans officials began installing adjustable barriers at intersections in the famed French Quarter to temporarily prevent vehicles from entering the tourist area where the narrow...
Sep 26 2024 // In the long war between auto insurers and windshield repair shops, the Florida Supreme Court this week sided with glass companies, leaving GEICO with little choice but to ask lawmakers to change the law if it feels repair...
Apr 22 2024 // CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to...
Nov 21 2024 // A new study examining potential unintentional bias in auto insurance finds that while Black and Hispanic drivers pay more than other drivers for coverage, they also have more claims and driving infractions.The...
Jul 15 2024 // The commercial auto insurance segment maintained its place as a weaker-performing U.S. property/casualty insurance product line in 2023. Despite successive periods of pricing and underwriting actions, commercial auto has...
Apr 9 2024 // New technologies and rising labor costs are putting pressure on auto insurance carriers and auto repairers by making repairs more costly and increasing repair times, trends that a new report asserts are...
Apr 1 2024 // The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fatal crash in San Antonio, Texas, involving a Ford electric vehicle that may have been using a partially automated driving system.The agency said in a statement...
Sep 19 2024 // A comment and promise made by former President Donald Trump on Tuesday received a lot of not-so-positive attention from the insurance industry.“Your Automobile Insurance is up 73% — VOTE FOR TRUMP, I’LL CUT...
Apr 12 2024 // A new form of sticker shock has hit American car buyers like Darin Davis.In January, when the 56-year-old Dallas real estate agent renewed the insurance on the pearly-white 2024 Cadillac XT4 that he bought just a few...
Jun 28 2024 // An employee at the Virginia Department of Health who was seriously injured when a vehicle crashed through the wall of her first floor office is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits.The Virginia...
Jun 7 2024 // The U.S. personal insurance sector is positioned for improving underwriting performance in 2024.According to Fitch’s latest U.S. Personal Lines Market Update, the change is predicted amid signs that the previous...
Sep 30 2024 // California, the birthplace of hot rod culture and televised police chases, is cracking down on a surge in deadly street takeovers.Often organized through social media, these chaotic events — also known as sideshows —...
Mar 13 2024 // Property/casualty insurers are urging Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to veto a “bad faith” insurance claims measure that they contend will “open the floodgates of litigation against insurance...