All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2022 // Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state’s top insurance regulator said Monday that a $3 billion transfer of surplus funds from the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association to car insurers will be completed this week. The...
Mar 9 2022 // Kodiak Robotics on March 9 said it has partnered with France-based CEVA Logistics to transport freight in self-driving trucks across Texas and Oklahoma, marking the latest autonomous trucking partnership in the...
Mar 2 2022 // A 75-year-old driver likely won’t face criminal charges after crashing her Bentley into a busy Miami Beach sidewalk cafe, killing one man and injuring eight others, police said.There were no signs that the woman was...
Mar 1 2022 // The families of two Houston residents killed in a series of recent traffic accidents involving local law enforcement said Feb. 24 they believe their loved ones’ deaths are part of an ongoing problem with police...
Feb 24 2022 // Austin Texas-based MGA Sensa has partnered with Incline P&C Group to provide their personal auto insurance offering. Sensa will act as an MGA to offer its product through a network of appointed retail brokers and...
Feb 23 2022 // A North Carolina motorcyclist who lost a leg after a collision with an Amazon delivery truck has filed a lawsuit arguing that unrealistic expectations for the tech giant’s delivery drivers have led to...
Feb 22 2022 // The Massachusetts House has approved a bill that would let immigrants in the country illegally obtain state driver’s licenses.If passed into law, Massachusetts would join 16 other states and the District of Columbia...
Feb 21 2022 // The two possessions that most concern insurers — homes and motor vehicles — happen to be the largest contributors to the historic 7.5% inflation rate.Perhaps that should be no surprise. “It’s the...
Feb 16 2022 // Storms across northwest Europe are set to drive electricity generation from wind farms to records this week in gusty conditions that threaten to disrupt transportation and down power lines.Weather forecasters in the UK,...
Feb 15 2022 // School trustees in Las Vegas have approved a $9 million settlement in a case involving a former school bus driver who was sent to prison in 2018 for sexually assaulting special education preschoolers.The Clark County...
Feb 15 2022 // The two possessions that most concern insurers — homes and motor vehicles — happen to be the largest contributors to the historic 7.5% inflation rate announced last week.Perhaps that should be no surprise....
Feb 10 2022 // The sun was shining when Kim Williams hopped in her Honda Odyssey to visit a friend at a nursing home. But an unexpected downpour on the drive back left her trapped in a maze of flooded streets.Williams made turn after...
Feb 7 2022 // A federal judge in Baltimore on Thursday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. filed by the family of a rideshare driver who was killed by a passenger in 2019.U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake...
Feb 7 2022 // The number of drivers ticketed in Nevada for putting the pedal to the metal in violation of speed limits continues to climb.Nevada Office of Traffic Safety data indicates over 5,100 citations were issued in 2021 to drivers...
Jan 31 2022 // McKeel Hagerty’s parents were into wooden boats and saw an unmet need to underwrite them. Hagerty, however, has been a car nut from day one. When the family’s marine insurance business finally began to offer...
Jan 28 2022 // Tesla’s most important products this year and next will not be cars, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday, but software that drives them autonomously and a humanoid robot.The audacious promises by the...
Jan 25 2022 // Under a program being offered by Boston-based life insurer John Hancock, safe drivers can earn reward points towards discounts on wellness products and their life insurance premiums.John Hancock Vitality program members...
Jan 21 2022 // Two nonprofit bodies, Consumer Reports and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), said separately on Thursday they are reviewing safeguards put in place by automakers for vehicles with partial automation.The...
Jan 20 2022 // With traffic fatalities spiking higher, the nation’s top safety investigator says a widely cited government statistic that 94% of serious crashes are solely due to driver error is misleading and that the...
Jan 14 2022 // I came across this article on Insurance Journal (of course!) today.Can a Self-Driving 40-Ton Truck Be Safe? Developers Say Yes But Others Are Skeptical. The optimist in me says that yes, self-driving trucks can be safe.The...