One-third of ride-share drivers surveyed in a new study reported being involved in a crash while working. Using a cellphone, driving while tired or driving on unfamiliar roads increased the likelihood of a crash, according to the study by University …
Alaska ranked first with 66.7% of fatal crashes involving special use vehicles being taxis, a new study shows. Nationally, 10% of fatal crashes involved special use vehicles are taxis. In the U.S. the taxi services industry was worth an estimated …
ORLANDO, Fla. — Cameras. One showing the driver and another facing forward. Those can be the keys to avoiding nuclear verdicts after auto and truck crashes, especially for companies with fleets of vehicles and relatively inexperienced drivers, two Crum & …
Coverage from a commercial auto policy does not remain in effect after the policy’s expiration date merely because the insurer failed to give proper notice to the Department of Motor Vehicles that it was canceling a certificate of insurance, the …
One day last month our firm received three separate, unrelated subrogation claim files involving serious personal injury, property damage, and a death resulting from tractor-trailers whose drivers had lost control after serving to avoid colliding with a deer on the …
Claims management has always been a combination of art and science. The “science” part tends to be fairly easy to understand, at least at a conceptual level. After all, insurers base a great many of their decisions on statistics and …
SAN FRANCISCO —Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O self-driving technology unit Waymo and truck fleet operator C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc CHRW.O said on Wednesday they would team up to test automated trucks with safety drivers behind the wheels in Texas in the coming …
Dezjion Henson has wanted to be a truck driver his whole life. When he turned 18 last year he jumped at the chance and signed on as an apprentice with Total Transportation of Mississippi, LLC in Richland, Mississippi. “Growing up, …
A sharp decline in claim frequency helped the commercial auto line achieve its best underwriting performance in a decade last year, but rising claim severity threatens to erode profits as traffic returns to US roadways, according to a report released …
Commercial auto is one of the biggest, most problematic cost centers in the insurance industry. Its loss ratios are incredibly high — and growing — particularly in comparison with other P&C lines. This makes it hard for carriers to make …