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#1 NYC Man Charged With Insurance Fraud in Staged Car Crash Captured By Dashcam

Nov 12 2024 // A New York City man has been charged with staging a car accident for insurance fraud purposes last month in a case that received wide publicity after the victim shared dashboard camera footage of the crash, authorities...

#2 Blacks and Hispanics Pay More for Auto Insurance. Study Tries to Answer Why.

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...

#3 Changes to Washington Homeowners and Auto Premium Rule to Be Considered

Nov 4 2024 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has proposed modifying the state’s recently adopted premium change transparency rule.The proposal is specific to Phase 2 of the rule (the automatic inclusion of reasons...

#4 2024 More of the Same in Commercial Auto Segment After $5B Net Loss in 2023

Nov 14 2024 // After the U.S. commercial auto insurance segment sustained a $5 billion net loss in 2023, a new AM Best reports indicates further deterioration in the first half of 2024.Despite targeted underwriting initiatives, including...

#5 Legal System Abuse Hammers Truck Insurance

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...

#6 Vehicle Crashes Into Tree in Wisconsin, Killing 5

Nov 4 2024 // Five people died in a fiery vehicle crash in Wisconsin, authorities said Saturday. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the vehicle crashed into a tree Friday night off a roadway just south of...

#7 Economic, Social Inflation Influence Drop in Commercial Auto UW Profits: Triple-I/CAS

Oct 28 2024 // Commercial auto insurance has struggled to achieve underwriting profitability, even before inflationary conditions affected property/casualty lines in recent years. The trend has been accompanied by steady growth in net...

#8 Mississippi Worker Killed When Hot Asphalt Falls from Dump Truck

Nov 6 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi’s capital said a man died Monday when he was trying to repair a dump truck and asphalt poured onto him.Darrell Sheriff, 41, was underneath the truck working on a...

#9 California Plans to Rev up Sales of Electric Motorcycles

Oct 31 2024 // At New Century Motorcycles in Alhambra, a handful of electric motorcycles are relegated to the back of the store, tucked behind the dirt bikes. The store sells one a month, at most, a salesperson said.Motorcyclists have...

#10 Report: California Auto Sales Leveling off, Tesla Sales Slip

Oct 28 2024 // New vehicle registrations in California seem to be leveling off, while consumer tastes for Telsas cooled slightly.California’s new light vehicle registrations fell by 1.7% from a year earlier, totaling 1,320,708...

#11 Economic, Social Inflation Influence Drop in Commercial Auto UW Profits: Triple-I/CAS

Nov 18 2024 // Commercial auto insurance has struggled to achieve underwriting profitability, even before inflationary conditions affected property/casualty lines in recent years. The trend has been accompanied by steady growth in net...