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III Advises Policyholders on Filing Claims for Storm-Related Damages

The Insurance Information Institute (III) is predicting thousands of East Coast residents will file claims for damages on their auto and homeowner policies after a weekend snow storm—the third weather-related...Read More »

NHTSA Investigating Reports of Mini Cooper Vehicle Fires

Federal safety officials are investigating a possible defect in certain Mini Cooper “S” cars that has led to increasing reports of vehicles catching fire—sometimes when they were not even running. The...Read More »

Insurance Survey: Many Parents Drive Distracted in front of Teens

A new State Farm survey finds that American parents are not so good at following their own advice about using cellphones behind the wheel, bolstering other recent reports that not even Mom and Dad are...Read More »

Insurance Org. Sees Record No. of Top-Rated Booster Seats

Parents have more top-rated booster seats to choose from than ever before, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced Thursday in releasing its annual evaluation of the child safety devices. A...Read More »

New Study Shows Drivers Double Reaction Time When Texting

A new study by researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) shows that drivers were twice as slow to react when they were texting while navigating a test track and were 11 times more...Read More »

NHTSA Announces Recalls on Some Golf, Jetta and Audi Vehicles

Volkswagen is recalling as many as 168,275 Golf, Jetta and Audi vehicles with diesel engines because of fuel system defect that could lead to fires, federal safety officials say. The recall,...Read More »

MetLife Poll Asks Who’s Safer on the Road: Men or Women?

A new poll from MetLife Auto & Home probably won’t end the age-old debate over which gender has the better drivers, but it shows that women at least think they are safer than men behind...Read More »

CDC: An Estimated 4 Million People Reported Driving Drunk in 2010

American motorists reported driving drunk about 112 million times in 2010, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study that found self-reported incidents of driving...Read More »

NHTSA Investigating Alleged Saturn Ion Steering Problems

Federal safety officials are trying to gauge the breadth of danger posed by a failure in the electric steering system of 2004 through 2007 Saturn Ion vehicles they say could lead to sudden “loss...Read More »