Latest Commercial Auto Headlines

All the headlines from our Commercial Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Competition Increases in Commercial Auto, But Not Too Much-Yet

Nov 20 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...

Aim for the Bull’s Eye: Focus on Market Characteristics Improves Programs

Jul 7 2005 // The following article was published in Insurance Journal’s July 4 issue focusing on Target Markets Program Administrators Association and the program marketplace.The value of specialization and target marketing in...

Aim for the Bull’s Eye: Focus on Market Characteristics Improves Programs

Jul 4 2005 // Drilling Down into a Market’s Data Unearths Insights Conventional Methods MissThe value of specialization and target marketing in improved insurance performance has been well proven over the past 15-plus years....

Public Auto

Apr 4 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Union General is offering a variety of programs to address public auto exposures. The program can handle accounts up to 10 units. Public auto classes include limo, day care, airport, and hotel shuttles...

Progressive Drives Into S.C. Commercial Auto Insurance Market; Signs 430 Agents

Mar 7 2005 // Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) has announced it will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance...

Ga. Commissioner Parks Agency Reportedly Selling Bogus Taxi and Limo Coverage

Mar 1 2005 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine announced Tuesday that he has issued a cease and desist order against Phoenix Brokerage Inc. and Main Street Brokerage Inc., both located in Barnesville, and arrested one of the...

COMMERCIAL AUTO RESULTS TAKE U-TURN

Jan 24 2005 // Commercial auto underwriting results took a U-turn in the right direction from 1999 to 2003, according to a new study by Conning Research and Consulting Inc. The study, Commercial Automobile Markets: Solid Sectors, Worthy...

RLI Opens Commercial Auto Unit

Dec 22 2004 // RLI Transportation, a division of RLI Insurance Company, has launched a commercial auto insurance unit.According to RLI Transportation President David Dunn, the new unit will write mono-line commercial auto business with...

Loss Ratios Improve in 45 States Nationwide

Nov 22 2004 // The commercial auto market went through some tough times. After years of deteriorating loss ratios, things have definitely turned around.What does this mean for the marketplace? In some cases, prices have started to...

Progressive Now Offering Commercial Auto in N.H.

Oct 22 2004 // As previously reported by Insurance Journal, The Progressive group of companies has begun offering commercial auto coverages in New Hampshire through more than 200 agents. The product is being marketing under its new Drive...

Mass. Approves Commercial Auto Market Reforms

Sep 20 2004 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved plans to implement a limited servicing carrier program for the state’s commercial auto residual market as proposed by Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers...

Commercial Auto

Aug 9 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services (BTIS) announced a new online commercial auto program intended for up to four vehicles with a maximum GVW of 45,000 lbs. Classes of business include...

Commercial Auto/Truck Physical Damage

Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Safety Net Insurance Marketing Corporation is offering a new commercial auto/truck physical damage and high value, substandard private passenger physical damage program.Dollars: Up to $1 million coverage...

TEXAS OKAYS ISO COMM. AUTO TOOLS:

Jun 7 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cleared the way for insurers to make filings immediately using Insurance Services Office Inc.’s (ISO) commercial auto advisory information. According to ISO, its advisory...

Texas Approves Additional ISO Commercial Auto Tools

May 21 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cleared the way for insurers to make filings immediately using Insurance Services Office Inc.‘s (ISO) commercial auto advisory information.According to ISO, its advisory...

Philadelphia Insurance Agents Get Real Time Commercial Auto Services

Apr 29 2004 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies (NASDAQ: PHLY) has launched AutoIDweb, a new service on its AccessPHLY Agent Web Portal that provides agents access to their commercial auto policies with the ability to add/delete vehicles...

Mass. Streamlines and Equalizes Agents’ Access to CAR’s Commercial Auto High Risk Operation

Apr 17 2004 // The Massachusetts auto insurance industry is streamlining the way it handles high risk commercial auto risks by reducing the number of servicing carriers involved in handling them and equalizing access to the residual...

Public Auto

Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Glendale, Calif.-based general agent KF&B Inc. announced a new public auto program. The program underwrites charter and sightseeing buses, limousines, tour vans, and various types of shuttle vans....

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....

Package and Commercial Auto

Mar 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. is offering a package and commercial auto program featuring a replacement cost with optional ACV, no coinsurance and property value guard automatic increases....