Saturday, March 11, 2006

Car insurers must release brakes on premiums soon (The Scotsman: Business)


Car insurers must release brakes on premiums soon (The Scotsman: Business)
SHOULD we expect motor insurance costs to rise? It's March and the rush to buy newly registered cars will, over the next few weeks, release thousands of used cars on to the market.

High-tech car keys spur growing lockout problem (Bonita Daily News)
Scott Austin s New Year s ski vacation was going great until he got locked out of his car. The locksmiths he called said that they couldn t make a key for his Nissan Pathfinder and that he would need to tow the car to a Nissan dealership.

Does Nationwide Insurance discriminate against the overweight? (Times-Standard)
Does Nationwide Insurance Company have a policy of discriminating against people who are overweight? Do they care about fairly and honestly settling auto accident cases? It seems a very strange turn-around for what has historically been a very credible insurance company.

Auto rates on bumpy road (Winston-Salem Journal)
The N.C. Department of Insurance said yesterday that it would hold a hearing in June on an insurance-industry request to raise rates for auto insurance.

Traffic fatalities Two people died Thursday afternoon when their car lost control on snowy Oregon 22 east of Detroit (The Oregonian)
Roman G. Zaytsev, 81, of Vancouver died Tuesday in a Vancouver hospital of chest injuries received four weeks earlier in a bicycle-car collision, according to the Clark County medical examiner's office.

Insurance program expands to Peninsula (San Mateo Daily Journal)
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced Thursday the expansion of the state s low-cost auto insurance program to Santa Clara, San Mateo and Imperial counties.

Electric Insurance Revises Missouri Auto Product (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BEVERLY, Mass.----March 8, 2006--Electric Insurance announced today the introduction of its enhanced auto product in Missouri. The product is open immediately for all new business and will be available for renewal business beginning on April 5, 2006.

Scots car buyers go for Skodas (Paisley Daily Express)
Scots go for Skodas and Londoners love luxury models, a survey of car-buying habits shows. In Dumfries and Galloway there are twice the UK national average of Skodas, which also sell well in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the survey from online insurance company swiftcover.com found.

Insurance Auto Auctions Acquires NW Penn Auction Sales/Warren County Salvage in Erie, Pennsylvania (The Auto Channel)
WESTCHESTER, Ill.--March 8, 2006--Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a leader in automotive total loss and specialty salvage services in the United States, today announced the acquisition of NW Penn. Auction Sales/Warren County Salvage located in Erie, Pennsylvania. This acquisition represents the fourth IAA location in Pennsylvania, allowing IAA to better serve northern and central Pennsylvania as

Travel Insurance Comes to Botswana (AllAfrica.com)
Bumping along the road to the Gaborone International Convention Centre in his car last Friday, the managing director of Botswana Insurance Company Limited, Dziki Nganunu thought to himself that there should be pothole insurance for city motorists.

Low cost auto insurance program expanded (East Bay Business Times)
The California Low Cost Automobile Insurance program will be expanded to Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Imperial counties, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced Thursday.

State to hold hearing on auto-insurance rates (Charlotte Business Journal)
A hearing on N.C. automobile insurance rates has been set for June.

N.C. Schedules June Auto Insurance Rate Hearing (Insurance Journal)
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long has announced a hearing on auto insurance rates will be held in Raleigh in June and recently requested rate increases will be denied until after the hear

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