
California Insurance Commissioner Orders Premiums Returned To Businesses
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has ordered insurers to return premiums from certain lines to businesses and consumers. This has raised pressure on those insurers to take larger steps to reduce customer financial burden caused by COVID-19.
April 15, 2020
Auto
Legislation & Regulation
Liability
Workers' Compensation
California

54 Vehicles Pile Up On Icy Kennedy Expressway In Chicago
More than 50 cars were involved in a massive pileup crash on the inbound Kennedy Expressway at North Avenue in just one of more than a dozen crashes reported Wednesday morning.
April 15, 2020
Auto
Liability
Subrogation
Illinois

As Coronavirus Empties Streets, Speeders Hit The Gas
Empty roads in the United States and Europe are tempting drivers to go out and shift into high gear. From Los Angeles to New York, London and Berlin, coronavirus lockdowns have drained traffic from normally crowded roads.
April 15, 2020
Auto

Tornadoes Rip Through The South, Leaving At Least 16 Dead
At least 16 people were killed after tornadoes began ripping through the South on Easter, destroying homes and storefronts and leaving over 1 million people without power from an intense storm system now headed towards the Mid-Atlantic.
April 13, 2020
Auto
Property
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi

Driver Annihilates Ultra-Rare Gemballa Mirage GT In Manhattan Hit-And-Run Rampage
If you felt a disturbance in the force this morning, you werent alone. Early this a.m., an allegedly stolen Gemballa Mirage GT was used to smash into several parked cars in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of New York City before finally coming to a crumpled halt just past the Javits center.
April 7, 2020
Auto
Liability
New York

How COVID-19 Is Probably Affecting Your Auto Claimants
The precautions underway to reduce COVID-19 transmission risk appear to be having a direct impact on auto accident benefits claimants — and not in a good way.
April 6, 2020
Auto
Liability

Auto Insurers Refund Millions As Americans Shelter-In-Place
Allstate and a regional insurer will refund hundreds of millions of dollars in car insurance premiums as the coronavirus pandemic has led home-bound Americans to drive less.
April 6, 2020
Auto

Fire Destroys At Least 3500 Rental Vehicles At Florida Airport
A fire that spread through a grassy area of Southwest Florida International Airport has destroyed thousands of rental cars, fire department officials said. The blaze began Friday, spanned 15 acres and originally involved only 20 cars in the grassy rental car overflow area at the airport in Fort Myers, fire department officials said.
April 6, 2020
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Florida

Nissan Recalls Over 250K Vehicles To Replace Takata Air Bags
Nissan is recalling more than a quarter-million SUVs, trucks and vans worldwide to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.
The vehicles have air bags with volatile ammonium nitrate that can explode with too much force and hurl shrapnel. But they have a moisture-absorbing chemical that was supposed to make them safe. U.S. safety regulators are to determine whether all inflators with the drying agent have to be recalled.
April 3, 2020
Auto
Subrogation
The vehicles have air bags with volatile ammonium nitrate that can explode with too much force and hurl shrapnel. But they have a moisture-absorbing chemical that was supposed to make them safe. U.S. safety regulators are to determine whether all inflators with the drying agent have to be recalled.

Car Theft Ring Targets Memphis Area Dealerships
Eight car dealerships in the Memphis metro area have been hit by an auto theft ring in the past 10 days, according to a news release from the Greater Memphis Auto Dealers Association.
April 2, 2020
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Property
Tennessee

GM Reaches $120M Settlement Over Lost Vehicle Value From Brand Reputation Hit
General Motors Co has reached a $120 million settlement with owners who claimed that their vehicles lost value because of defective ignition switches, which have been linked to 124 deaths.
March 30, 2020
Auto
Litigation

Attorneys See Coronavirus Panic-Related Accidents In South Florida
As South Florida media reported on empty supermarket shelves because of COVID-19 panic-buying, some personal injury attorneys say they saw a spike in car accident cases.
March 27, 2020
Auto
Liability
Litigation
Florida

Ford Issues Safety Recall On 249,000 Fiesta, Fusion And Lincoln Models
Ford is recalling 248,912 cars from the 2014 to 2016 model years because door latches have been found to be susceptible to cracking and failure in warm regions. The risk is that the door might not close properly, even after multiple attempts, and that it may open while the car is being driven.
March 27, 2020
Auto
Subrogation

Touchless Claims Show Promise, But Is It Enough To Save Commercial Auto?
As AI, image quality and cloud-based services improve, the insurance industry is slowly moving closer to an era where many claims may soon be processed without any human touch at all.
March 26, 2020
Auto
Technology

Wide Tornado Spins Through Mississippi Town, Causing Injuries And Damage
A "large and destructive" tornado ripped across northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama late Tuesday afternoon, reportedly causing injuries and damage in the town of Tishomingo, Mississippi, near the Alabama state line.
March 25, 2020
Auto
Property
Alabama
Mississippi



