All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 11 2015 // A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. driver who struck a limo van carrying comic Tracy Morgan last year had been awake for 28 hours and worked almost 14 hours at the time of the accident, U.S. investigators found.The National...
Aug 10 2015 // Smile and the world smiles with you — unless you’re having your driver’s license renewed in New Jersey.It’s been three years since New Jersey instituted its “no smiling” policy for...
Aug 7 2015 // Drivers suing Uber Technologies Inc. for better pay and benefits are proposing to pursue their group lawsuit in phases focused first on whether they qualify as employees.If they win that round, then the two sides can fight...
Aug 4 2015 // The most serious challenge to Uber Technologies Inc.’s “Be your own Boss” business model might also present an early test to the wider sharing economy as well as undermine its own $50 billion...
Aug 3 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. is jostling with drivers suing for reimbursement of their expenses in advance of an important hearing next week in the fight over whether drivers are independent contractors or employees entitled to...
Aug 3 2015 // In early July, FedEx lost a round in employment practices litigation over whether or not its drivers are employees of the company under Kansas labor statutes.On July 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit agreed...
Aug 3 2015 // The majority of property/casualty insurers do not expect autonomous or self-driving vehicles to have a real impact on their auto insurance business for another decade and have not adjusted their business models to prepare...
Aug 3 2015 // There are “far-reaching implications” for personal lines insurers and the products and services they provide as the U.S. continues to undergo changes in its demographic structure, an industry report states.The...
Jul 31 2015 // Atlanta firefighters have been warned to keep their vehicles free of valuables after authorities say thieves are targeting the vehicles while the firefighters are working.Multiple media outlets report that four pickup...
Jul 30 2015 // A 6-year-old boy died and 11 others were hurt this week when their church bus overturned near Indianapolis in an accident that police said appeared to be the result of an error by a driver with a suspended license.The boy...
Jul 29 2015 // U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says the nation should increase funds for the development of high-tech sensors that can disable a car’s ignition if its driver is drunk. The New York Democrat said on July 26 that...
Jul 27 2015 // A Portland, Ore. bicyclist is suing not only the pickup driver who hit her and shattered bones across her body, but also a second driver she says gave the truck the OK to turn.The Oregonian reported that Cynthia Lewellen...
Jul 24 2015 // A 59-year-old eastern Kansas man has been sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty in his 17th drunken driving case.The Kansas City Star reports Stephen Gast pleaded guilty after his June 10 arrest, when law...
Jul 24 2015 // The restaurants and doughnut shops that consumers pass on their commute would love to predict when they’ll be driving by. Their auto insurer may already know, and could be looking for a way to profit from that...
Jul 23 2015 // Kauai police say they have issued 539 tickets to people using cellphones while driving, an offense that can come with a pricey $300 fine for first-time law-breakers.Hawaii officials are cracking down on the use of...
Jul 23 2015 // Drivers as young as 18 years old could be allowed to drive 80,000-pound trucks between states if Congress goes along with a proposal backed by the U.S. trucking industry that safety advocates say would be a disaster.The...
Jul 22 2015 // New Berlin, Wis.-based risk management firm, HNI, announced it has launched the Transportation DART System, a performance management platform that captures metrics on productivity, safety and fuel efficiency for drivers...
Jul 21 2015 // Rhode Island’s attorney general has released a public service announcement on the dangers of drunken driving.Peter Kilmartin says the 30-second video focuses on young drivers, who are inexperienced and often...
Jul 21 2015 // Farmington police may be the first in New Mexico to crack down on distracted officers who try to use a patrol computer while driving.New software to prevent distracted driving has been installed in most of the...
Jul 20 2015 // Officials for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles are re-examining some test questions as more Floridians are failing the revamped written driver’s license test.Three out of every five have...