All the headlines from our Dealerships Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 23 2005 // Program Managers Working for the Working ClassFor some program administrators, blue is the color of money. While other insurance programs target lawyers, insurance agents and various white-collar occupations, some of the...
Apr 25 2005 // Insurance giant Allstate Corp. on April 22 sued the liquidator of an out-of-business automotive repair company that has held about 1,000 cars awaiting collision repairs until its assets are sold.Allstate filed a Superior...
Apr 13 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is urging the Oregon Senate to reject legislation which would mislead consumers about a valuable program designed to provide quality repairs to accident-damaged...
Mar 21 2005 // Workers’ compensation insurance is problematic across the nation and legislatures in many states, including Texas and Oklahoma, are currently considering bills aimed at increasing the quality of workers’ comp...
Feb 28 2005 // An Illinois bill that would require auto insurers to pay whatever any given body shop demanded for repairs would result in skyrocketing loss costs for insurers and higher premiums for drivers.H.B. 2330 is...
Feb 4 2005 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced the last two in a five-year series of settlements with various insurance companies to give refunds to Texas policyholders who paid more out of pocket on claims for auto repairs...
Nov 2 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that more than 1,200 Central Florida residents have received a total of $1.7 million under a refund plan for consumers who paid for various insurance products...
Oct 11 2004 // Farmers Insurance Exchange has begun serving civil summons and complaints upon a Los Angeles body shop and its director, accusing them of taking part in a scheme designed to defraud Farmers and its policyholders. The civil...
Sep 28 2004 // The Lansing, Mich.-based Insurance Institute of Michigan has named a former lobbyist for the auto industry as its new executive director. Peter Kuhnmuench will start Oct. 11, 2004 and previously served as legislative...
Sep 6 2004 // Mike James, president of Michael E. James Insurance Agency, plans to send agents out of the country to Mexico next year by implementing a reward program that enables qualifying agents and brokers to win an all expense paid...
Sep 6 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Lemac General Agency in Orange, Calif., has added a new market for Automobile Repair & Service Operations. Eligible classes include but are not limited to: detailers, body shops, quick lubes, heavy...
Sep 2 2004 // Farmers Insurance Exchange has begun serving civil summons and complaints upon a Los Angeles body shop and its director, accusing them of taking part in a scheme designed to defraud Farmers and its policyholders. The civil...
Aug 13 2004 // David Gorin, president of Lemac General Agency in Orange, California has recently added a new market for Automobile Repair & Service Operations.The market is rated “A” by A.M. Best. Eligible classes...
Aug 12 2004 // Mike James, president of Michael E. James Insurance Agency plans to send agents out of the country to Mexico next year by implementing a reward program that enables qualifying agents and brokers to win an all expense paid...
Aug 10 2004 // The former owner of a Milton, Florida automotive dealership has entered a plea of no contest to racketeering and organized fraud and has been ordered to begin making deposits of $5,000 a month into an escrow account that...
Jul 19 2004 // New York’s so-called vicarious liability law affecting car leasing firms costs consumers more than $130 million a year and has led to a 36 percent decline in the number of vehicles leased in New York each year,...
Jul 19 2004 // A new report released by the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services aims to give consumers a better understanding of their rights with regard to auto repair under the state’s no-fault policy. The report,...
Jun 1 2004 // The Netherlands’ Akzo Nobel announced that its Nobilas Claims & Fleet solutions business has agreed to acquire the UK-based Aon Motor Accident Management company (AMAM), which it described as “the number...
Apr 19 2004 // A resolution that calls for a study of the need to prohibit insurance companies from owning auto repair facilities was deferred indefinitely following a hearing on the issue in Honolulu recently. Senate Concurrent...
Apr 7 2004 // A resolution that calls for a study of the need to prohibit insurance companies from owning auto repair facilities was deferred indefinitely following a hearing on the issue in Honolulu recently.Senate Concurrent...