All the headlines from our Dealerships Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 24 2013 // Overland Park, Kan.-based SeaFire Insurance Services said it is seeking new agency partners in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for its exclusive auto dealer and repair insurance program.SeaFire said it will consider...
Apr 16 2013 // Michigan’s Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has ordered a Detroit-area auto dealer to stop selling insurance without a license.The DIFS issued a cease and desist order against Monaco Motors Ltd.,...
Apr 3 2013 // New managing general agency Risk Point, LLC, is now accepting applications from independent agents and brokers throughout the United States to provide automobile dealer physical damage coverage for qualified franchised and...
Mar 27 2013 // Overland Park, Kan.-based SeaFire Insurance Services announced it is actively seeking new agency partners in Wisconsin and Illinois for its exclusive auto dealer and repair insurance program.SeaFire will consider...
Mar 5 2013 // The neighborhood auto repair shop or local gas station might seem to be an easy risk to insure. But there are a few misunderstood coverages that agents and brokers should know about, says one California broker specializing...
Feb 11 2013 // The neighborhood auto repair shop might seem to be an easy risk to insure. But there are a few misunderstood coverages that agents and brokers should know about, says one California broker specializing in the auto services...
Jan 28 2013 // AXA Assistance UK, a leading motor and property assistance provider (part of the global AXA Group) announced that it has extended its long-term partnership with specialist classic vehicle insurance broker Footman James to...
Jan 11 2013 // President Barack Obama has signed a law repealing an outdated requirement that car dealerships keep on hand an information booklet about insurance.The bipartisan legislation, H.R. 5859, passed the Senate in December by...
Dec 26 2012 // The U.S. Senate has approved legislation that would eliminate the requirement that new-car dealerships keep on hand an information booklet about insurance.The bi-partisan legislation, H.R. 5859, endorsed by the National...
Dec 17 2012 // Beau Michael Guidry of Baton Rouge, La., has been sentenced in connection with an odometer tampering scheme that defrauded victims in and around Louisiana, the Justice Department announced.U.S. District Judge for the...
Nov 8 2012 // Superstorm Sandy may consign as many as a quarter of a million new and used cars and trucks to the scrap heap, a loss that could eventually lead to a spike in new auto sales, automakers and dealers said.So far, automakers...
Oct 24 2012 // A New York-based auto body shop has been allowed to move forward with its lawsuit that accuses Progressive Insurance Group Company and its affiliates of deceptive acts and practices.The ruling last week by the Appellate...
Oct 9 2012 // Alabama Insurance Commissioner Jim L. Ridling issued a bulletin last week approving the use of a new “insurance certification form,” MVD-1, that is designed for licensed motor vehicle dealers and others.The...
May 29 2012 // GMI Insurance, a managing general agent for transportation insurance nationwide, has launched a new program for non-franchised, used auto dealerships.GMI is the exclusive nationwide underwriting manager for this program,...
Feb 24 2012 // Some Colorado car dealers who are approving high-risk loans for the vehicles they sell are installing GPS tracking units to protect their investments. According to KREX-T, the use of tracking units is an industry-wide...
Jan 11 2012 // A New York court has ruled that a worker taking a short break does not constitute an interruption of employment, thus a worker injured during such a break is still entitled to workers’ comp benefits.The Appellate...
Dec 20 2011 // West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw said last week that his office has sued Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and an auto repair shop.The attorney general says the defendants allegedly repaired vehicles with what...
Dec 9 2011 // Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill designed to limit attorneys’ fees after a well-known lemon law lawyer collected more than $150,000 in an auto-repair dispute.The measure, part of Walker’s special...
Dec 6 2011 // 5Star Specialty Programs has expanded its Auto Dealers program to 43 states. With these new markets, the coverage is nationwide, except in Ark., Conn., D.C., Hawaii, Mass., Minn., N.J. and R.I.DEALERsure covers rural and...
Sep 23 2011 // A federal jury in Texas has convicted a car dealer from Rowlett for ‘title washing,’ a fraudulent process through which a vehicle’s title is corruptly altered to conceal information that should normally...