All the headlines from our Commercial Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 30 2010 // During the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Roadcheck 2010, which ran from June 8 through June 10, DPS troopers inspected 6,906 commercial vehicles.Twenty-five percent of them, or 1,738, were placed out of service...
Jun 17 2010 // Vicksburg officials hope to attract one or more taxi companies as the city prepares to relaunch local cab service.The city has been without taxi service for nearly a year. Jim Stirgus Jr., president of the recently...
Mar 7 2010 // $285 MillionAmount sought in a lawsuit filed by the wife of a Bronx, New York man who was fatally shot by a police officer while defending his stepdaughter. The suit names the city and Officer Michael Falcione. Sandra...
Feb 24 2010 // A Connecticut teenage girl who says she was raped in the back of a taxi in Naugatuck in 2007 has been awarded $1 million in a lawsuit against the alleged attacker and the cab company.A Waterbury Superior Court jury reached...
Jan 21 2010 // A suburban Chicago insurance agent and a former university research technologist are charged in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme aimed at killing a federal prosecutor and drug enforcement agent, officials said.Jack Mann,...
Jan 14 2010 // Four former insurance agents have pleaded guilty for their role in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums, New Jersey’s attorney general said.They are Thomas Hurd, of Bensalem, Pa., William...
Sep 21 2009 // The new company will use independent agents and brokers for sales.Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with First...
Sep 21 2009 // The new company will use independent agents and brokers for sales.Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with First...
Sep 4 2009 // Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with bankrupt First Commercial Insurance Co., which is in liquidation.Florida CFO...
Aug 18 2009 // Insurance Services Office (ISO) lists more than 100 endorsements available for use with the business auto policy (BAP) (the total number varies by state). Out of that heap of policy-altering endorsements, most designed to...
Aug 13 2009 // Several weeks ago, MyNewMarkets.com posted a two-part series regarding coverage gaps and selling to those gaps. “Gaps That Sell” and “Three Homeowners’ Policy Gaps that Sell” detailed the...
Jul 23 2009 // Progressive introduced a new commercial auto endorsements that might limit an agent’s errors and omissions exposure, the insurer says.Imagine this scenario — a customer has commercial auto insurance for his...
Jul 20 2009 // Continental Risk Insurance Services Inc. of Lodi, Calif., can now place taxi liability anywhere from 1 taxi to large fleets. Limits range from $10,000 up to $1 million. Coverage is provided by “A” XIII rated...
Jul 6 2009 // Your commercial auto clients are likely a diverse group — from large fleets of delivery trucks to accounts with smaller numbers of local service vans — but they all share the potentially devastating human and financial...
Jul 1 2009 // New York City bicycle taxi regulations could be signed into law in August. Industry advocates and Councilman Leroy Comrie are pushing for tougher safety measures. They want drug testing for pedicab operators and an added...
Jun 25 2009 // Capitol Insurance Companies (Capitol) based in Middleton, Wis., has launched a commercial automobile insurance product.The company said the product is available for appointed insurance agents and brokers through a newly...
Jun 11 2009 // During Roadcheck 2009, which ran from June 2 through June 4, Texas Department of Public (DPS) troopers inspected 7,316 commercial vehicles, a 25.6 percent increase from Roadcheck 2008.During the three-day campaign, 7,316...
Apr 23 2009 // Alan Plafker has been appointed to the board of directors of New York’s Independent Livery Driver Benefit Fund. Plafker is a long-time insurance agents who is also secretary of the Professional Insurance Agents of...
Mar 9 2009 // A Nevada Senate panel heard testimony recently on a bill to let police ticket cab passengers for not wearing seat belts, and also ticket cabbies who don’t ensure that children riding in their taxis are buckled...
Feb 27 2009 // A Nevada Senate panel heard testimony this week on a bill to let police ticket cab passengers for not wearing seat belts, and also ticket cabbies who don’t ensure that children riding in their taxis are buckled...