Saturday, March 11, 2006

Low-cost car insurance due this summer (Palo Alto Weekly)


Low-cost car insurance due this summer (Palo Alto Weekly)
Lower-income residents of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties could get state-backed low-cost auto insurance by late summer, California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced Thursday.
Source: www.paloaltoonline.com

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.
Source: biz.yahoo.com

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.
Source: icrenfrewshire.icnetwork.co.uk

Teen killed in one-car crash; passengers tell of horseplay (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Donna Blauser's voice wavered and broke off last night as she struggled through tears to warn teenagers about the dangers ofhorseplay while driving -- just one day after her 16-year-old son died when he was thrown from a car full of teens on Man o' War Boulevard.
Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com

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

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.
Source: www.times-standard.com

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.
Source: www.bonitanews.com

Deterring car thieves (CNN Money)
Buying a car is one of the biggest investments you can make. People today spend $30, $40 or $50 thousand dollars on their set of wheels.
Source: money.cnn.com

NRMA gives free rein to customers on car repairs (Sydney Morning Herald)
NRMA Insurance has succumbed to growing criticism of its controversial internet-based smash repair system by announcing a plan to allow customers to choose their own repairer. -
Source: www.smh.com.au

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.
Source: www.oregonlive.com

2 men admit to insurance fraud (The MetroWest Daily News)
CAMBRIDGE -- Two men who admitted in court yesterday they tried to scam former Framingham Planning Board Chairman Helen Lemoine and her insurance company were ordered to write letters of apology to her.
Source: www.metrowestdailynews.com

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.
Source: allafrica.com

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.
Source: www.smdailyjournal.com

N.J. Brush Fire Disrupts Rail, Car Traffic (WNBC)
A car fire in the town of Linden spread quickly through the brush, forcing some railways and highways to shut down.
Source: www.wnbc.com

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
Source: www.insurancejournal.com

Five Great Reasons to Shop Around For Auto Insurance (Stuttgart Daily Leader)
(ARA) - Shopping around is the number one way of saving money on insurance. Are you sure you're getting the best deal possible with your current insurance company?
Source: www.stuttgartdailyleader.com

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.
Source: www.journalnow.com

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