Insurance News - Thursday, April 18, 2013

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Thursday, April 18, 2013: 

• This Globe article on abuses by towing companies makes a case for regulating the towing industry which happens to be a recommendation of the Auto Insurance Anti-Fraud Task Force.
• Credit score insurance screening under review in New Brunswick where the consumer advocates wants a ban on using credit scores to set insurance premiums.
• A study indicates that married men lie about car accidents, tickets more than their wives.
• Hudak's Progressive Conservatives insist they have a specific and tested four-point plan for lowering Ontario auto insurance rates: eliminating red tape for insurance providers, reforming the industry’s dispute resolution process, fighting insurance fraud and increasing accountability of insurance companies.
• Legislation to overhaul North Carolina's auto insurance rate approval system was rejected by a House committee as the insurance industry was divided on the proposal to allow for individual company rate approval submissions instead of a combined industry submission to the North Carolina Rate Bureau. 
• A driving study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute says that fatigue is a cause of 20 percent of car crashes, rather than the two or three percent previously estimated based on surveys, simulator studies and test tracks.
  
  
  Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/04/16/3985815/nc-auto-insurance-overhaul-proposal.html#storylink=cpy