All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 14 2024 // (Bloomberg) — Florida’s southwestern coast — long one of America’s fastest-growing regions — is losing some of its boomtown swagger as a home-insurance crisis and other soaring costs make homes...
Feb 13 2024 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio city agreed this week to a settlement with a former K-9 officer and a truck driver involved in an attack last year, video of which garnered national attention and raised questions...
Feb 13 2024 // A driver charged in separate crashes that killed two people during a pop-up car rally in southern New Jersey has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison.Gerald White, 38, of New Castle, Delaware, pleaded guilty in...
Feb 6 2024 // A Miami man posing as an insurance agent reportedly swindled at least eight people out of $29,000 by selling them fake auto insurance policies. That man, William Diehl, was arrested recently and charged with fraud and...
Feb 5 2024 // North Carolina has a rather unique setup for auto insurance, allowing insurers to place high-risk drivers into the state Reinsurance Facility, a non-profit, state-created pool.That system came under new scrutiny last week,...
Jan 31 2024 // Two current and two former Massachusetts State Police troopers are among six charged in connection with an alleged conspiracy to give passing scores to certain Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) applicants, including...
Jan 22 2024 // The New York workers’ compensation fund for black car drivers was within its authority to impose a 2.5% surcharge on noncash tips that passengers paid to drivers, a three-justice panel of the Second Circuit Court of...
Jan 16 2024 // Trucking companies Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Drivers Management, LLC must pay $335,682 to a deaf truck driver months after an Omaha, Nebraska jury found in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Jan 12 2024 // New Mexico and Alaska are among the safest states for older drivers, a new report shows.Research carried out by personal injury law firm Bader Scott analyzed National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data from 2017 to...
Jan 10 2024 // The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled last week that state law permits the parent of a minor to elect lower than default liability limits for their child’s auto insurance coverage.A three-judge panel unanimously...
Jan 3 2024 // The New York workers’ compensation fund for black car drivers was within its authority to impose a 2.5% surcharge on noncash tips that passengers paid to drivers, a three-justice panel of the Second Circuit Court of...
Jan 2 2024 // Nevada drivers can now add a symbol that identifies certain medical conditions on their driver licenses, in an effort to improve safety on the roads, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles announced this month. The...
Dec 28 2023 // Self-driving cars could be on some British roads by 2026, the country’s transport minister Mark Harper said on Wednesday.Cars with full self-driving technology are not currently permitted on Britain’s roads but...
Dec 28 2023 // An unlicensed driver exclusion in a Pennsylvania auto insurance policy does not apply to allow an insurer to deny statutorily mandated first party medical expense benefits, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.The...
Dec 19 2023 // SLIDELL, La. (AP) – A drunken driver who fled after smashing into a Louisiana building left a debris trail that officers followed to find him at a bar, according to police.Police officers in Slidell were dispatched...
Dec 19 2023 // A Tesla driver will pay more than $23,000 in restitution for the deaths of two people during a 2019 car crash in a Los Angeles suburb, a decision announced the same day that the automaker recalled nearly all vehicles sold...
Dec 15 2023 // U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Tuesday that it is...
Dec 7 2023 // Driver Technologies, Inc., an AI-based mobility tech company, has announced its Driver Technologies Rating Service Inc. (DTRS) is rolling out its newly launched driver score to commercial fleets and insurance partners.In a...
Dec 7 2023 // ATLANTA (AP) — The family of a Georgia church deacon who died after struggling with a police officer following a minor car crash has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a tow truck driver they say arrived during...
Dec 6 2023 // DETROIT (AP) – U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously...