The attorney general for Washington state is investigating auto insurers PEMCO and Progressive for potential race discrimination against the state’s drivers. Both companies use consumer credit histories, or “credit-based insurance scores” derived from a consumer’s [...]
Nearly 200,000 U.S. veterans look for jobs every year after exiting the military and only one in four has a job lined up before leaving the armed forces, according to Pew Research. Retired Sgt. 1st [...]
The use of smartphone apps most or all of the time while driving is widespread, and more prevalent among drivers younger than 50, a new survey by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has [...]
Telematics has a long way to go before it can live up to some of the hype surrounding it, members of the Collision Industry Conference’s Future Disruptions committee agreed during a recent presentation. Panelists Frank [...]
New Jersey legislators are considering a measure that would regulate peer-to-peer car-sharing, such as what Turo offers, which includes insurance liability definitions. During a Nov. 3 Senate Commerce Committee hearing on bill S2979, Insurance Council [...]
A recently released insurance trends report by Insurify looked at how inflation has impacted car insurance premiums by reviewing more than 40 million of their consumer quotes. Insurify noted that weather patterns, crime rates, and [...]
Boyd Group, the parent company of Gerber Collision, has negotiated rate increases with all of its insurance clients over the past 12 months as it responds to the challenges of inflation and a tight labor [...]
Incumbent insurance commissioners in California, Georgia, and Kansas prevailed in Tuesday’s midterm elections, while the Oklahoma commissioner was returned to office without opposition in either the primary or the general election. Meanwhile, in two states [...]
As the industry faces recruitment and retention challenges during the ongoing technician crisis — a topic covered in-depth during SEMA Show education sessions last week — Tony Adams, an AkzoNobel business services consultant and a [...]
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