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The family of an Arkansas teenager who died after being hit by a tractor-trailer in Texas last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the truck and his employer. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie refused to sign into law a bill that aimed to make younger drivers safer. The bill would have changed the state’s graduated driver’s license program to require novice drivers to receive more supervised practice time. … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

A La Pine, Ore. driver was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years in prison for a fatal crash near Bend that occurred while he was texting his girlfriend who was sitting next to him. Deschutes County Circuit Judge Alta … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

A texting pickup truck driver who caused a deadly highway pileup in Missouri last year has federal accident investigators taking a hard look at the use of distracting devices behind the wheel. The National Transportation Safety Board says a 19-year-old … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

States should ban all driver use of cell phones and other portable electronic devices, except in emergencies, the National Transportation Board said Tuesday. The recommendation, unanimously agreed to by the five-member board, applies to both hands-free and hand-held phones and … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

A Florida rental car customer’s auto insurer must cover crash injuries, even though the driver was someone not authorized under the rental car company’s contact. In a 5-2 opinion on Nov. 23, the Florida Supreme Court overturned a district court … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

[Business Wire] – Although many companies continue to tighten their financial belts, when it comes to voluntary benefits, employers are much more employee focused, as opposed to cost driven. The Gauging the Success of Voluntary Benefits, the second in a series of research briefs stemming from Prudential’s Sixth Annual Study of Employee Benefits: Today & [...]

The AARP Driver Safety Course gives senior citizens an opportunity to refresh their driving skills and the auto insurance companies offer them a discount in appreciation of that. This course was held at the Pasadena Senior Center on Saturday. Senior citizens will be attending the all-day class and it would help them refresh their driving [...]

The Arkansas Supreme Court has denied an insurer’s appeal of a lower court finding that the language of its insurance policy at issue in a case involving an underinsured driver is ambiguous. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company Inc. was the insurer … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

FRIDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) — Among U.S. drivers who died in a car crash, about one in four tested positive for drugs, a new study has found. View full post on Yahoo! Health News