All the headlines from our Commercial Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 1 2012 // The Main Street America Group has introduced a remodeled commercial auto product to independent insurance agents who represent the super regional property/casualty insurance carrier in Arizona, Oklahoma and South...
Apr 23 2012 // Progressive Insurance has doubled the available liability limits of its commercial auto policies. It now offers options for $1.5 or $2 million. The expanded limits mean business owners won’t need to buy a separate...
Apr 5 2012 // National Interstate Insurance Co. has expanded its community & medical transportation (CMT) insurance program to include best-in-class fleet taxi operations. The product will be offered exclusively through National...
Apr 4 2012 // Months after their state-certified vehicle inspection station was cited by federal authorities for failing to notice defects in a bus that crashed in North Texas, killing 17 passengers, brothers Alam and Cesar Hernandez...
Mar 23 2012 // Insurance direct marketer, GEICO, has announced that it is lowering commercial auto insurance rates for business owners in Texas.Commercial insurance packages cover the cars, trucks and vans used in conducting business,...
Mar 5 2012 // Can technology positively impact a billion people in just 10 years? Possibly, if insurance is available.Consider taking a low-use personal automobile — which might sit idle most of the time — and making it available to...
Feb 22 2012 // A Wisconsin business owner is charged in federal court with torching his business and offering to kill someone’s wife in payment for helping set the fire.Prosecutors accuse 32-year-old Mathew Lemberger of Denmark of...
Feb 7 2012 // Mercury Insurance has introduced a commercial auto product that offers agents a new point-of-sale system that makes it easy to rate, qualify and issue new business, as well as online service capabilities.The new product is...
Dec 27 2011 // A federal judge has barred New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission from issuing permits for taxicabs unless they’re accessible to people with disabilities. Advocates for the disabled say it’s a...
Dec 13 2011 // All Risks Ltd. has obtained a new market for charter bus companies of all sizes effective Jan. 1, 2012.The coverage will be available through the company’s York, Penn.-based livery unit, which will serve as the...
Nov 21 2011 // Since the beginning of the year, Texas public safety officers have removed more than 66,000 unsafe commercial vehicles and more than 12,000 unsafe commercial drivers from the state’s roadways, the Department of...
Nov 16 2011 // China, the world’s largest auto market, is likely to open its mandatory auto insurance market to foreign companies next year, chairman of the Insurance Association of China said on Wednesday.The 200 billion yuan...
Oct 18 2011 // New research by Finaccord, a specialist market research consulting firm, estimates that the market for motor insurance for fleet vehicles across ten European countries is worth €15.8 billion [$21.77 billion] in premiums...
Sep 9 2011 // Two brothers accused of carrying out the slaying of a blind and mentally disabled man as part of an insurance scam have been found not guilty of all counts, including conspiracy to commit murder.James and Kareem Clea...
Sep 6 2011 // As the peculiar yellow vehicle moved into the Short North neighborhood north of downtown Columbus, Ohio, bewildered pedestrians stopped in their tracks, fumbling for their cellphone cameras.Drivers honked car horns and...
Aug 24 2011 // Opening statements are expected this week in the trial of two brothers accused of carrying out the killing of a blind and mentally disabled man as part of an insurance scam in Baltimore. Jury selection has already begun in...
Aug 24 2011 // Opening statements are expected this week in the trial in Baltimore of two brothers accused of carrying out the killing of a blind and mentally disabled man as part of an insurance scam.Jury selection began on Monday in...
Aug 22 2011 // The UK’s auto (motor) insurance market is extremely competitive, and over the past few years usually unprofitable. As a result a number of insurers are reducing capacity and/or contracting their distribution for...
Jul 27 2011 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, following a recent rash of tour bus crashes, said he will suspend the operating licenses of eight charter and tour bus companies and their 100 buses after repeated failures in safety...
Jul 4 2011 // An increase in claims from cargo theft and freight physical damage is expected to lead to higher insurance rates in the commercial auto class, a welcome development for some insurers after years of prices going...