All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 30 2014 // While tens of thousands of immigrants living in the United States illegally are preparing to apply for a long-sought driver’s license in California starting Jan. 2, others are being urged to think twice.Immigrant...
Dec 30 2014 // Personal auto insurance companies increased their rates by an average of 2.1 percent countrywide in 2014, according to insurance consulting firm Perr & Knight’s RateWatch reports.The three states with the highest...
Dec 24 2014 // Independent insurance agents who serve the Hispanic community may be in store for a busy year.Immigration reform is on next year’s horizon, and in California a landmark law enabling undocumented individuals to obtain...
Dec 18 2014 // Knox County Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre has ordered a full review of all licensing documents for school bus drivers after questions arose about the qualifications of a driver involved in a fatal crash.The Knoxville...
Dec 18 2014 // Officials in Asheville, North Carolina said a woman was charged with driving while impaired twice in the same day by the same sheriff’s deputy. Area media outlets report warrants at the Buncombe County...
Dec 18 2014 // A Boston man who works as an Uber Technologies Inc. driver was charged with taking a woman to a secluded area and raping her, as questions about the company’s driver-screening process prompted it to begin an...
Dec 18 2014 // Online taxi service Uber Technologies Inc., which had a driver was accused of rape in New Delhi, said it is exploring adding new methods to verify drivers’ credentials and make its service safer.Uber has started...
Dec 15 2014 // The New Hampshire Liquor Commission is ramping up efforts to prevent drunken driving during the holiday season by increasing undercover monitoring of establishments serving alcohol and partnering with the state police to...
Dec 15 2014 // Fewer Wisconsinites are being hurt or killed in drunken-driving accidents. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says 185 people died in alcohol-related crashes last year — down 47 percent since 2003. Injuries from...
Dec 11 2014 // State legislators are working on ways to better identify Minnesota residents who drive without auto insurance.Motorists don’t have to show proof of insurance when renewing a vehicle’s registration. People who...
Dec 10 2014 // The Uber taxi driver held on suspicion of raping a passenger in India is a career criminal who was out on bail for sexually assaulting a woman, Indian police said, raising fresh concern about the safety of using the...
Dec 9 2014 // Plainclothes Columbia, Mo., police officers have started issuing tickets to drivers with Internet ridesharing company Uber.City staff and Uber had been negotiating regulations that would have licensed rideshare drivers...
Dec 9 2014 // A driver for Uber Technologies Inc. whose car struck and killed a six-year-old girl crossing a San Francisco street last New Year’s eve was charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, a spokesman for the...
Dec 8 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is a corrected version of this story. In a story Dec. 6 about a driver for the Internet ride-sharing company Uber being fined, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the driver had been...
Dec 5 2014 // New Jersey’s Highway Traffic Safety Division is giving more than $1.2 million to 165 police departments to combat drunken driving during the holiday season.The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign...
Dec 4 2014 // Law enforcement and state officials recently took time to remember victims of impaired driving crashes in Tennessee.According to state officials, Tennessee lost an estimated 349 lives in impaired driving crashes last year....
Dec 3 2014 // Three people jumped into a Baton Rouge, La. lake after watching a vehicle get rear-ended and careen into the water.WBRZ-TV reported the St. George Fire Department said there was only one person in the vehicle, the driver,...
Dec 2 2014 // Insurance companies around the world are promising lower rates on car coverage. The catch is they want to install the equivalent of an airplane’s black box to track how and where you drive.Smartphone applications and...
Dec 1 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said last month his department is ready to accept insurance company filings to create new commercial coverage or endorsements to personal auto insurance policies that will...
Nov 30 2014 // Peggy Young only has to look at her younger daughter to be reminded how long she has fought United Parcel Service over its treatment of pregnant employees, and why.Young was pregnant with Triniti, who’s now 7 years...