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Five Actions Auto Insurers Should Take to Thrive in the Autonomous Tech Boom
We are in the golden age of autonomous technology, with new car models rolling off the assembly line daily with state-of-the-art crash avoidance features. Innovations such as parallel-park assist, ...
Why Google’s Online Insurance Experiment Failed: The Insurance Industry Sounds Off
The insurance industry had a lot to say about what Google did wrong a day after the search engine giant said it would be pulling the plug on its year-long Google Compare experiment selling auto ...
Record Takata Air Bag Recall Could Grow Larger Still
The U.S.'s auto safety regulator said it's investigating all Takata Corp.air-bag inflators that use a chemical propellant banned from future models and will compile data to determine whether to ...
State Auto Blames Auto Lines for Disappointing 2015
State Auto Financial Corp. ended 2015 with a steep drop in net income and a combined ratio that landed well above 100. Executives blamed a bad year for the insurer's auto lines but added that they've ...
Nationwide Hopes NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. Will Highlight Broad Product Roster
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is again resurfacing as a Nationwide spokesperson, with new television commercials set to debut during the Daytona 500 on Feb. 21. The professional stock car racing driver and son ...
A Year-End Assessment of Allstate’s Esurance
Allstate's Esurance continued its path of slow, steady improvement in the final months of 2015. The online auto and home insurance provider booked a 107 combined ratio for the 2015 fourth quarter, ...
The Zebra, Another Insurance ‘Disruptor,’ Attracts $17M in Funding
The Zebra, an online auto insurance comparison company, said it has closed $17 million in Series A funding with investment from Mark Cuban, Mike Maples Jr. (of Twitter and Lyft), Simon Nixon (of ...
EU Explores Creation of Cross-Border Car Insurance/Pension Market
Creating a pan-European retail market in car insurance and pensions largely hinges on whether 500 million consumers will go online to widen their choice of products, the EU's executive body said on ...