Tallman Auto and Body serves KCK (Kansas City Kansan) "Commitment is not an option. It is a requirement," reads a sign in the offices of Tallman Auto and Body. For over 50 years, the business currently owned by the Dan and Don Tallman, has served Kansas City, Kan.
Protecting Yourself (Metro Weekly) So you've gotten the required insurance on your car and you think you're taken of. Or now that your homeowner's policy is in place, you're protected should some calamity befall you. Right?
Hatch targets credit-based insurance rates (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal) Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch and two state legislators announced a bill Thursday to ban insurance companies from using a consumer's credit score in setting prices for home or auto coverage.
CREDIT REPORTS: Hatch -- Keep credit scores out of insurance cost calculation (Grand Forks Herald) MINNEAPOLIS - A proposal to ban the use of credit scores in setting the price of auto and homeowners insurance was outlined Thursday by Attorney General Mike Hatch and DFL legislators.
Neighbor in need: Summer Hill helping woman devastated by house fire (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Since the night her 12-year-old son Brian woke her, yelling "Mommy, Mommy, the third floor's on fire," Elizabeth Montgomery has stayed in hotels, at friends' houses and in her car, all the while fearing the city will fine her as early as next week for the charred remains, for which she had no insurance.
U.S. braces for Katrina car scams (Sun-Sentinel) ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. -- As the vast vehicular wreckage wrought by Hurricane Katrina is carted away, law-enforcement and insurance officials are anticipating the arrival of tens of thousands of those vehicles on used-car lots across the U.S.
State Auto Financial named ``Best Managed Insurance Company'' by Forbes (The Auto Channel) COLUMBUS, Ohio--Dec. 2, 20059, 2005--State Auto Financial Corporation has been named by Forbes Magazine as its Best Managed Company in the insurance industry for the year 2006. The January 9, 2006 issue of the magazine lists STFC among the 26 "Best Managed Companies in America."
Accident still plagues car dealer (Craig Daily Press) Tony Maneotis' court file is stamped "case closed." But Moffat County's insurance company is demanding that the car dealer pay for a Sheriff's Office truck damaged in a collision three years ago.
Fire damages Wayland home: Nobody is injured as car ignites garage, starting a three-alarm blaze (The MetroWest Daily News) WAYLAND -- A car fire that began in the garage of a Wayland home last night quickly grew into a three-alarm fire that attracted at least a half dozen fire trucks from Lincoln and Wayland.
State Auto Financial Named "Best Managed" by Forbes (Insurance Journal) Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Financial Corporation has been named by Forbes Magazine as its Best Managed Company in the insurance industry for the year 2006. State Auto's ranking appears in
Best, worst car insurers are ranked (Poughkeepsie Journal) ALBANY American Modern Insurance Co. ranked No. 1 for fewest customer complaints among automobile insurance companies doing business in New York this year, while Empire Insurance received the most, a state Insurance Department report issued this week said.
Conmen guilty of insurance scam face jail (Reading Chronicle) TWO conmen who took part in an insurance scam where fake ads were placed in car magazines have been jailed for a total of three-and-a-half years.
Salvaged Car Buyers Sue Insurance Company (The Auto Channel) Angry consumers have filed lawsuits in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Celina, Napoleon and Ottawa, in the last few weeks, against State Farm Insurance Company and local car dealers for not telling the truth about salvage cars they were selling and which the insurance company had totaled out and then resold.
Car accident takes toll on the Layton family (Park Record) David Layton, was in a car crash last Thanksgiving that changed his life. Shortly after moving from Park City to Murrieta, Calif. he was in a car accident which left him with broken ribs, a cracked pelvis and six injured vertebrae.
Shanghai Insurers Sign Convention On Motor Insurance (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) A total of 25 property insurance companies operating in Shanghai signed a Self-Discipline Convention on Motor Insurance recently, agreeing to pay commissions of no more than 8 per cent for third-party insurance premiums and no more than 15 per cent for motor damage insurance and accessory insurance premiums.
Six Bills Will Lead Reform of Tort Insurance System (RedNova) By Rebecca Waddingham, Greeley Tribune, Colo. Dec. 29--Six bills aiming to change auto insurance laws will drive a new debate over Colorado's 21/2-year-old system of tort automobile insurance. When the 2006 legislative session begins Jan.
SHANGHAI INSURERS SIGN CONVENTION ON MOTOR INSURANCE (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) Automotive A total of 25 property insurance companies operating in Shanghai signed a Self-Discipline Convention on Motor Insurance recently, agreeing to pay commissions of no more than 8 per cent for third-party insurance premiums and no more than 15 per cent for motor damage insurance and accessory insurance premiums.
Six bills will lead reform of tort insurance system (Greeley Tribune Online) Six bills aiming to change auto insurance laws will drive a new debate over Colorado's 21/2-year-old system of tort automobile insurance.