Latest Trucking Headlines

All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Trucking, Transportation

Jan 24 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Jeffrey L. Heath Inc., dba Heath XS, is now offering excess trucking and transportation including all types of excess auto, except LPG, hazardous materials, livery and buses.Dollars: Policy limit is $4...

NAIS Offers Admitted Truck Cargo Legal Liability

Dec 20 2004 // Clifford Mapes, president and CEO of National Advantage Insurance Services, Inc., recently added a new financially stable carrier for monoline motor truck cargo legal liability.The carrier is admitted and rated A++XV by...

Loss Ratios Improve in 45 States Nationwide

Nov 22 2004 // The commercial auto market went through some tough times. After years of deteriorating loss ratios, things have definitely turned around.What does this mean for the marketplace? In some cases, prices have started to...

Trucking Program

Nov 22 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Crump E&S of California Insurance Services Inc. announced a new trucking program. Coverage includes auto liability, physical damage and cargo.Dollars: Limits range from $750,000 to $1 million....

Crump of California Offers Trucking Program

Oct 12 2004 // Crump E&S of California Insurance Services Inc. announced a new trucking program for agents in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Admitted carrier First Financial Insurance is rated “A- VIII” by A.M. Best....

Legal Liability for Motor Truck Cargo

Aug 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. broadened and simplified its carrier-for-hire cargo coverage, which addresses a trucker’s legal liability when carrying cargo under contract. Key...

Trucking Program

Jul 19 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar is offering a new Trucking Program: BI/PD (with filings), Physical Damage, Cargo.Dollars: Policy limits of $1 million CSL. Minimum deductible of $1,000 and a minimum premium of $500 for...

Legal Liability for Truck Cargo

Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. broadened and simplified its carrier-for-hire cargo coverage, which addresses a trucker’s legal liability when carrying cargo under contract. Key...

Trucking Program

Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar is offering a new Trucking Program: BI/PD (with filings), Physical Damage, Cargo.Dollars: Policy limits of $1 million CSL. Minimum deductible of $1,000 and a minimum premium of $500 for...

BOGUS TRUCKING POLICIES’:

Jul 5 2004 // Lloyd’s America revealed it is investigating allegedly bogus umbrella trucking liability policies reportedly placed through the Oakland, Calif.-based broker Ambassador Insurance Services and/or GIO International of...

Trucking Program

Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar is offering a new Trucking Program: BI/PD (with filings), Physical Damage, Cargo.Dollars: Policy limitsd of $1 million CSL. Minimum deductible of $1,000 and a minimum premium of $500 for...

Legal Liability for Truck Cargo

Jul 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. broadened and simplified its carrier-for-hire cargo coverage, which addresses a trucker’s legal liability when carrying cargo under contract. Key...

LLOYD’S INVESTIGATES BOGUS UMBRELLA TRUCKING POLICIES:

Jul 5 2004 // Lloyd’s America has revealed exclusively to Insurance Journal that an investigation is currently underway for allegedly bogus umbrella trucking liability policies reportedly placed through the Oakland, Calif.-based...

Lloyd’s Investigates Bogus Umbrella Trucking Policies

Jun 23 2004 // Lloyd’s America has revealed exclusively to Insurance Journal that an investigation is currently underway for allegedly bogus umbrella trucking liability policies reportedly placed through the Oakland, Calif.-based...

AIMU REVISES CARGO CLAUSES:

Jun 21 2004 // The American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU) revised the association’s cargo clauses for the first time since 1966. AIMU chairman David French said the revisions would make the forms more consistent with...

Motor Truck Cargo

Jun 21 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Safety Net Insurance Marketing Corp. announced the availability of new motor truck cargo facility to their organization. Coverage is available for owner-operators, short, intermediate and long haulers....

Supreme Court Ruling Paves the Way for NAFTA

Jun 21 2004 // The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed to overturn a lower court ruling that had required the U.S. Department of Transportation to undertake an environmental impact study under the Clean Air Act before opening the...

PCI Calls Safety Rule Enforcement Most Important Concern after NAFTA Trucking Decision

Jun 10 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has issued a comment on the recent unanimous decision by the Supreme Court to allow Mexican trucks to use U.S. highways (See IJ Web site June 7).The PCI said the...

MARINE UNDERWRITERS ASSOCIATION REVISES CARGO CLAUSES:

Jun 7 2004 // The American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU) has revised the association’s cargo clauses for the first time since 1966. AIMU chairman David French said the revisions would make the forms more consistent with...

Motor Truck Cargo, Non-Trucking Automobile Liability and/or Truckers General Liability

Jun 7 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: National Advantage Insurance Services Inc. announced new programs for motor truck cargo, non-trucking automobile liability and/or truckers general liability. California brokers can write just one, any...