All the headlines from our Commercial Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 20 2006 // The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies has announced it is now offering commercial auto insurance in West Virginia.While Progressive’s commercial coverages are available directly to consumers by phone and over...
Mar 19 2006 // Progressive drives into W.Va.The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies has announced it is now offering commercial auto insurance in West Virginia. While Progressive’s commercial coverages are available directly...
Mar 10 2006 // Americans’ expanding waistlines were a factor in the capsizing of a Baltimore water taxi that killed five people in 2004, a trend that has led to other deadly transportation accidents, the government said.The...
Mar 2 2006 // The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies has announced it is now offering commercial auto insurance in West Virginia.While Progressive’s commercial coverages are available directly to consumers by phone and over...
Feb 21 2006 // Insurers for the company that ran the water taxi that capsized in the Inner Harbor, killing five people, sued the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, claiming the military branch certified the taxi for too many passengers.The...
Feb 19 2006 // Unusual circumstances surround dropped sale of Universal UnderwritersMost failed company mergers remain a secret, except to a handful of insiders. That was not the case with the collapsed attempt by Zurich Financial...
Feb 19 2006 // Rental firms can take advantage of financial liability laws to limit their exposureMany car rental operators can save significant expenses and still protect their business by using non-traditional risk management methods....
Feb 8 2006 // Insurance rates for taxicabs in the Distrcit of Columbia are being reduced as the result of a more competitive market sparked by a change in policy duration.Acting Commissioner Thomas Hampton of the District of Columbia...
Jan 16 2006 // RISC Inc. announced it is rolling out a new commercial auto market in Oklahoma.Coverage highlight include: –Service vehicles of all types –Waste disposal; salvage and recycling operations –Oil Lease...
Dec 5 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Dec 4 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Nov 21 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...
Nov 21 2005 // Before you can finish saying “Beam me up, Scotty,” chances are a tiny transmitter is bouncing a signal off a satellite somewhere in space, indicating that your insured’s taxi is stowed in the hold of a...
Nov 21 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment actually could be a commercial vehicle, according to the insurance...
Nov 21 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment could be considered a commercial vehicle according to the insurance...
Nov 20 2005 // Insurers like writing commercial auto business, and most lines of business, in the Midwestern states because of market stability and a favorable legislative and regulatory climate. But even in this typically stable line of...
Nov 20 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment actually could be a commercial vehicle, according to the insurance...
Nov 20 2005 // Watch out! That mobile drilling unit you assume is covered under your insured’s commercial general liability policy as a piece of mobile equipment could be considered a commercial vehicle according to the insurance...
Nov 20 2005 // AutosHi-Tech Gadgets Help Curb Losses Vendors of these types of high tech products strive to convince the insurance industry, and businesses that purchase commercial auto insurance for a wide variety of vehicles, that they...
Nov 20 2005 // Company Name 2004* 2005**12/31/2004 6/30/2005 State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. 964,544 159,665St Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. 654,788 46,260Zurich American Insurance Co. 630,760 170,012Auto-Owners Insurance...