LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday signaled their intent to make lowering high auto insurance premiums a top priority in the two-year session, proposing legislation that would make it optional for Michigan drivers to buy what is now mandatory unlimited medical ...

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and residents have filed a federal lawsuit over Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance law.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday against Patrick McPharlin, the director of Michigan’s Department of Insurance and Financial Services, which oversees the state’s ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada state officials are reminding as many as 600,000 vehicle owners they could face auto insurance rate increases July 1, when minimum liability coverage requirements go up.

Officials announced earlier that almost one in three of Nevada’s 2 million licensed ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new auto insurance company in Rhode Island is rewarding drivers with cheaper rates based off how they drive.

The catch is that policyholders have to allow HiRoad Assurance Company to track them in a cellphone app.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan drivers with auto insurance will pay more money than ever — $192 annually per vehicle — to cover unlimited medical benefits for severely injured motorists.

The fee was announced Thursday by the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association, a state-created entity ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — About one in three Nevada motorists, or as many as 600,000 people, could face a 9 percent jump in auto insurance rates this summer when the state raises the basic required minimum levels of bodily injury and property damage coverage, officials said.

The increase, effective ...

ATLANTA (AP) — With Georgia having experienced a spike in both fatal crashes and auto insurance premiums, legislators advanced a proposal to make it illegal to hold a cellphone while driving.

By a non-unanimous voice vote, a House committee on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill by Rep. ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Birmingham-based Infinity Property and Casualty were bought for $1.4 billion.

Kemper Corp. acquired the auto insurance provider in a cash and stock transaction, making it one of the largest nonstandard auto insurers in the country, Al.com

The Michigan House late Thursday voted 45-63 against a bill to reduce the cost of auto insurance premiums by giving drivers a choice on levels of personal injury protection.

Here is how members of the Republican-controlled chamber came down on the measure:

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Forty-one ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A bill to reduce auto insurance premiums was defeated late Thursday by the Michigan House, another blow for longstanding efforts to rein in medical costs contributing to the highest average rates in the country.

After hours of behind-the-scenes arm twisting and an ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A bill advancing in Michigan’s Legislature would require lower auto insurance premiums for all drivers while making it optional to buy unlimited medical benefits.

The Republican-controlled House Insurance Committee approved the legislation 9-5 Thursday. It moves to ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Legislation to reduce Michigan’s high auto insurance premiums by letting drivers opt out of mandatory unlimited medical coverage is in peril, with majority Republicans lacking enough support to pass it on their own and many Democrats pushing an alternative plan.

House ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Legislation to reduce Michigan’s high auto insurance premiums by letting drivers opt out of mandatory unlimited medical coverage is in peril, with majority Republicans lacking enough support to pass it on their own and many Democrats pushing an alternative plan.

House ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group defending Michigan’s auto insurance system says it has uncovered instances of insurers illegally selling more expensive policies to women and widowed drivers, raising questions about state oversight of rating practices as the industry pushes lawmakers to contain ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group defending Michigan’s auto insurance system says it has uncovered instances of insurers illegally selling more expensive policies to women and widowed drivers, raising questions about state oversight of rating practices as the industry pushes lawmakers to contain ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Any proposal to automatically cut premiums for Michigan drivers would be “dead” on arrival in the Republican-led Senate, Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof said Wednesday, bringing into question lawmakers’ long-sought aim to enact major auto insurance changes.

Meekhof, on ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s insurance regulator says he’s reached a deal with auto insurers for a premium increase of just over 2 percent instead of the nearly 14 percent average increase companies sought in February.

The state Insurance Department said Thursday the new rates ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida may change the kinds of auto insurance drivers must purchase.

The Florida House on Wednesday voted 89-29 to repeal a requirement that motorists carry a type of auto insurance known as personal injury protection. Under Florida’s no-fault insurance law ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — When dozens of taxi and limo drivers claimed the same home address, it led to a big insurance bust.

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says 70 Charlotte-area taxi and limousine drivers falsely listed the same address in suburban Union County to get a ...

LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) — The annual auto insurance fee Michigan drivers pay toward caring for people catastrophically injured in crashes is rising to $170, a $10 increase.

The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association announced Monday the new per-car assessment for the 12 months starting July ...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate approved a bill Thursday to raise the minimum amount of liability coverage drivers are required to carry on auto insurance policies, a proposal backers say is needed to protect accident victims from loss.

The bill by Sen. Kate Brophy McGee, R-Phoenix, is ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Homeowner and personal auto insurance rates in Maine continue to rank among the lowest in the nation.

State Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa says that recent national reports show Maine has the third lowest average auto insurance premium for the fourth year in a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Insurance companies are seeking approval for their plans to raise auto insurance costs for North Carolina motorists by an average of nearly 14 percent this year.

The state Insurance Department said Friday it received the request from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, ...

BOSTON (AP) — More than a million Massachusetts drivers will see their auto insurance bills increase by as much as 9 percent this year.

Insurance companies and industry officials tell The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/29vF00u ) that cheaper gas and ...