The Texas House Insurance Committee on Tuesday voted 5-4 to recommend fellow lawmakers pass a bill mandating appraisal clauses in auto insurance contracts. House Bill 2534 would institute another option for insurers and policyholders to resolve claim cost disputes without having to go to court.

Flooding and confirmed tornadoes caused damage in parts of Oklahoma and Missouri overnight and into Wednesday afternoon. Flooding was reported in Branson, Missouri, as well as several other areas, including Abilene, Texas, and Bentonville, Arkansas.

Seven people face criminal charges in Fargo for allegedly running a car insurance fraud ring where they crashed into each other’s vehicles and collected insurance money for profit.

Interstate 41 reopened Wednesday evening, April 21, after white-out conditions and freezing temperatures caused 20 crashes, including a 48 car pileup. Six people were hurt in that crash, and one Tennessee woman was killed.

Representatives from State Farm, Geico, Progressive and multiple insurance trade organizations came out against a sweeping overhaul of Florida’s automobile insurance laws proposed by state lawmakers this session.

Some homeowners and car owners in parts of Williamson and Travis counties are dealing with damage after Thursday’s hail storm.

Two people were killed Saturday night in a fiery crash involving a Tesla, according to Harris County Pct. 4 Constable Mark Herman.

Immediately following an accident, undrivable cars are typically towed away from the scene to temporary holding locations such as an impound lot or storage facility. There they remain until an insurance adjuster evaluates the vehicle and declares it a total loss or requests to have it towed to another facility to be repaired.

A cluster of severe storms swept across Southern states early Saturday, dropping large hail on a coastal Alabama city.

Tulsa Police say they’ve busted a major auto-theft ring that was operating out of Bixby. Detectives say they can’t remember seeing an operation of this magnitude before.

Motorhome travel is up by 143 percent, and this year’s season is only getting started.
California RV insurance is experiencing a boon as recreational vehicles begin another popular season due to the pandemic’s impact on travel.

Honda is recalling more than 628,000 vehicles in the U.S. to replace fuel pumps that can fail, causing the engines to stall.

Insurance adjusters can be seen as a thorn in a collision repair shop’s side, but with a shift in perspective and a few learned lessons, adjusters can quickly become a shop’s ally, even helping to streamline the repair process.

Tommy Jenkins is the Wonderful Muffler Man, a one-man shop along Rice Street in Roseville.

The pace of digital transformation is accelerating in many industries due to COVID-19, and nowhere is this more evident than in automotive insurance. At the start of the pandemic, carriers and collision repairers had to find new ways to minimize in-person interaction between employees and customers.