All east and westbound lanes on Route 581 have reopened after a pile-up crash involving 73 vehicles on Saturday afternoon that miraculously resulted in no reported life-threatening injuries.

State Farm said Thursday that metal thieves in search of platinum, rhodium and palladium are stealing catalytic converters in ever-greater numbers, sending auto-insurance claims soaring across the U.S.

Major cities across the US have seen an ‘unprecedented’ surge in auto thefts and carjackings in recent years, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has warned.

Testifying before a US Senate Committee on the issue of car thefts, NICB president and CEO David Glawe spoke not only of the rise in auto theft cases, but also discussed the apparent connection between car stealing and other serious violent crimes.

Local governments in the United States in recent years have begun adopting ‘Vision Zero’ policies, which aim at cutting roadway fatalities to zero. Such policies - which have demonstrated success abroad - have drawn even more interest since the onset of the pandemic, during which traffic fatalities and injuries have surged.

The claims experience will become increasingly automated over the next three years, as many customers are handling their claims virtually - and this will impact insurance professionals’ daily work, a recent LexisNexis report predicts.

While insurance industry sentiment is that higher repair costs for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) features offset ADAS loss-cost benefits, a new study from LexisNexis Risk Solutions finds that’s not entirely true.

A Houston man is charged with stalking after San Antonio police said he harassed an insurance claims adjuster and slashed her car tires, according to an arrest affidavit.

After years of steady declines, traffic fatalities in the United States are on the rise, contributing to increasing auto insurance rates. This comes despite declines in the average number of miles driven due to the pandemic.

Jessica Long, 29, was in standstill traffic in her vehicle on Interstate 95 in Jacksonville on Dec. 15, 2018, when Virjona Gjuraj, driving a Honda, collided with the back of her car. After a lengthy legal battle that began in October 2019, a Duval County jury awarded Long a $16.4 million verdict against her insurance company, Travelers Home and Marine Insurance.

The story began with a 20-year-old Manitoban saying he’d fallen asleep at the wheel in a newer model Chevy Silverado, veering off the road and crashing into a few parked cars.

More than 100 cars and semis crashed on a slippery stretch of interstate in central Illinois Thursday, according to state police. The crashes stretched several hundred yards along Interstate 39, local news outlets reported.

Legislators, safety advocacy groups, and others are mulling over not only the safety of semi- or fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) but who is at fault and accountable when they’re involved in crashes. So how does that affect insurance and repairers?

According to a new report from Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I), social inflation has increased claim payouts for commercial auto insurance liability in the US alone by over $20 billion between 2010 and 2019.

Numerous class action suits have been filed against auto insurers regarding the valuation of vehicles that are total losses. These cases typically allege that insurers are undervaluing vehicles in some common way or in violation of a state regulation.

Most of the time when we mention the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in our articles, it’s because of a new recall the organization is issuing. However, the NHTSA has other even more important activities, including monitoring traffic deaths in the United States.