After an extensive four-year investigation, the owner of a Pennsylvania auto body repair business has been sentenced for filing nearly 300 false insurance claims which resulted in over $400,000 in fraudulent payouts.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson took a significant step in enhancing road safety last week by signing a bill that officially makes Missouri the 49th state to prohibit texting while driving.

Three people were killed, and another was seriously injured after a single-vehicle crash that caused the car to burst into flames in the parking lot of an elementary school Saturday night in Murrieta, authorities announced.

As many as 14 million people in the Northeast and New England were still under flood alerts this morning after a summer’s worth of rain fell in parts of New York, forecasters said.

Roy Jackson was on his way home after running some errands. He was driving along State Route 1104 in Lexington about 5 minutes from his house when a driver heading in the opposite direction suddenly swerved into his lane.

Tesla is under scrutiny by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) regarding the safety of its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) systems. The NHTSA has demanded that Tesla provide additional data related to these systems or face significant fines.

The promise of cars that drive themselves has been just over the horizon for years now -- one of those breakthroughs that’s always coming yet seemingly never arrives. That’s changing, though, and rapidly.

Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee has signed legislation amending the state’s Unfair Claims Practices Act to change the definition of unfair claims settlement practices by insurers and motor vehicle damage appraisers.

U.S. property/casualty insurers are responding to higher inflation and natural catastrophe losses with rate increases when possible and exits when not, Swiss Re Ltd. said Wednesday in a report.

New Jersey resident Anna ‘Cuqui’ Rivera, a high school graduate who works as a labor and civil rights activist and moonlights as a DJ, was paying almost $3,000 annually for auto insurance with one of the big companies. Now, she pays almost $2,000 less for coverage on her 2016 Jeep.

The latest crash test ratings released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) have raised concerns about the safety of rear passengers in small pickups. According to the IIHS, none of the five small crew cab pickups tested received a good rating, with the Nissan Frontier earning an acceptable rating, while the Ford Ranger, Chevrolet Colorado, Jeep Gladiator, and Toyota Tacoma were all rated as poor.

Severe thunderstorm activity from June 11-15 caused $7 billion to $10 billion in insured losses, according to a report Monday from data and analytics company CoreLogic Inc. This loss estimate includes damage to residential, commercial, and industrial property, as well as automobiles, but excludes damage to infrastructure such as roads, utilities and governmental facilities.

Two Detroit automakers have emerged as leaders in delivering top-quality vehicles, alongside their Asian and European counterparts. However, the 2023 U.S. Initial Quality Study by J.D. Power reveals that the Ford and Lincoln brands did not perform as strongly overall.

Culling data from more than 4.6 million automobile insurance applications, researchers at the Insurify insurance comparison marketplace picked a winner -- or more to the point, a loser -- in its determination of the car model with the most accidents so far in 2023: the Audi S4.

Honda has announced a recall of 1.2 million vehicles in the United States due to a rearview camera problem that could impact driver visibility. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) revealed that the absence of a rearview camera image may pose a risk of collision and impair the driver’s ability to see obstacles behind the vehicle.