Insurance News - Thursday, July 31, 2014

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Thursday, July 31, 2014:

• It took a while but a Toronto-based staged collision ring has been slapped with more than $800,000 in fines and restitution for false insurance claims that contributed to more than $4 million in fraudulent claims.
• Auto insurance and ridesharing: When personal and business uses of a vehicle converge, coverage confusion arises.
• Men and women can both be terrible drivers but in different ways.
• A look at the public v. private auto insurance debate - which works better?
• Is it true that low highway speed limits mainly benefit auto insurance companies in the form of higher premiums?
• A published study suggests that enforced laws banning texting produced 3% reduction in traffic fatalities for all ages.

Insurance News - Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Wednesday, July 23, 2014:

• Car crash scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated with the latest wrinkle involving organized groups gaining access to medical clinics to cash in on lucrative payouts for phony insurance treatments.
• Auto insurance fraud is more frequent and sophisticated, with organized groups replacing individual fraudsters.
• Ontario's efforts to reform the insurance sector and clamp down on fraud in the Toronto area have not slowed the problem of staged car accidents.
• There seems to be a debate going on as to whether self-driving cars will mean less traffic or in fact more congestion.
• Google may be ready to launch self-drivering cars in the near future but they may be more than 10 years away because we're just ready for them.