Autonomous Vehicle Start-Up Suggests Insurers Could Control Fleet Risk
The self-driving vehicles of tomorrow could be actively monitored and shaped by insurance companies, suggests an autonomous vehicle start-up spun off from the University of Oxford.
May 2, 2018
Auto
Liability
Technology
Risk Management: Vehicle Reimbursement Programs
A new report based on US Bureau of Labor statistics has found that most motor vehicle accidents involving company cars occur during the personal time of employee drivers.
May 1, 2018
Auto
Liability
Risk Management
Simplifying Claims Involving Automated Cars
Canadas insurers are developing a framework for insuring automated vehicles that is designed for handling auto claims quickly, regardless of whether tort liability arises from human error or a manufacturing defect in the automated vehicle.
April 30, 2018
Auto
Legislation & Regulation
Liability
Overturned Semi Spills Watermelon Cargo, Causing Fatal Accident
One person died after a big rig carrying watermelons overturned, causing part of its load to strike another vehicle on I-95 in Philadelphia near the Walt Whitman Bridge.
April 30, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Pennsylvania
Family Of Woman Who Died After Flight Sues American Airlines For Negligence
The family of a South Carolina woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing American Airlines (AAL.O) of refusing to make an emergency landing after she fell ill during an April 2016 flight, leading to her death from an embolism three days later.
April 30, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
South Carolina
3 Dead, 3 Hurt In Fiery 2-Vehicle Crash In South LA
Three people were killed and three more critically injured in a two-vehicle crash in South Los Angeles Saturday evening.
The deceased included two children, authorities said.
April 30, 2018
Auto
Liability
California
The deceased included two children, authorities said.
5 Injured As Stolen Tractor-Trailer Rams Cars In Colorado
The driver of a stolen tractor-trailer in Colorado deliberately rammed into vehicles and caused numerous injuries before finally being taken into custody by police, who fired on the rig in an effort to stop the rampage, authorities said Sunday.
April 30, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Subrogation
Colorado
Hog Farms Neighbors Awarded $50M After Suing Over Smells, Spraying
Families who live near a hog farm in Bladen County, N.C., have been complaining for decades about bad smells, flies and excessive chemical spraying.
April 27, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
North Carolina
Dippin Dots CEO In DUI Crash That Damaged Two Homes
The CEO of ice cream empire Dippin Dots was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly crashed his car into a power line pole and two houses in Oklahoma, police revealed Wednesday.
April 27, 2018
Auto
Liability
Oklahoma
Kentucky Jury Awards $67.5M To Miners Who Used Defective Dust Masks
A Knott County jury has awarded $67.5 million in damages to two former coal miners who claimed defective dust masks led to their debilitating black-lung disease.
April 26, 2018
Liability
Litigation
Kentucky
Driving the Cost Of Auto Injury Insurance: Economic Losses, Attorney Involvement
A new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) shows that claimed economic losses for bodily injury liability (BI) insurance claims increased 10 percent annualized from 2012 to 2017, substantially above the medical inflation rate of 3 percent over the same period.
April 25, 2018
Liability
Litigation
Toronto Van Attack: How Insurance Applies To Vehicles Used As Weapons
If a rental vehicle is used as a murder weapon, the insurer could be on the hook if neither the driver nor the person renting the vehicle have auto insurance.
April 25, 2018
Auto
Liability
Speeding Semi Causes 9-Vehicle Pileup In Greeley, Colorado
Nine vehicle were damaged in a pileup caused by a speeding semitruck on Tuesday, the Greeley Police Department said.
April 20, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Colorado
Semi-Trailers Pile Up On Interstate In Whiteout Conditions
I-76 was shut down both ways on Tuesday afternoon after a pileup in the westbound lane. The incident took place about four miles west of Fort Morgan after a strong gust of wind created extremely low visibility.
April 19, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Subrogation
Colorado
Driver In Fatal Hit-And-Run Charged With Padding Insurance Claim
A Wheatfield hit-and-run fatality in 2014 continues to reverberate through local courtrooms. The driver who killed Ryan Fischer, 16, of North Tonawanda, faces charges of illegally padding an insurance claim he filed after the teenagers mother, who was drunk at the time, rammed his garage door and damaged his vehicle.
April 19, 2018
Auto
Fraud
Liability
New York



