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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has filed a “friend of the court” brief with the Indiana Supreme Court in a “chameleon carrier” case in which an insurance broker is accused of helping the carrier illegally change its name to escape its bad safety record.

With potentially big changes coming to the federal Compliance, Safety, Accountability program, insurance companies are hoping for a better way to identify unsafe motor carriers in an environment where insurers may be paying out much higher claims under the current system while some carriers are battling skyrocketing premiums.

What techniques are fleets using to pursue lower insurance costs as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration revamps its Compliance, Safety, Accountability scoring system? Our Oct. 17 LiveOnWeb program, "Managing Risk in Trucking," explores this topic. Watch the replay.

AssuredPartners Inc., a Lake Mary, Fla.-based insurance brokerage firm, said it acquired the Roemer Insurance Agency and its affiliate Sunforest Transportation Insurance Group, both based in Toledo, Ohio.

In an effort to soften the blow of a surcharge tacked onto insurance policies for North Carolina truckers, officials with the state’s insurance risk pool have cut in half the surcharge that will plug a $96 million shortfall in the agency’s balance sheet.

As autonomous vehicles become more commonplace on our highways and roads, drivers of both trucks and passenger cars are likely to become more accepting of the technology, a survey of U.S. consumers by the market research firm J.D. Power found.

North Carolina motor carriers are being slapped with a 14.61% surcharge on their liability insurance policies to plug a $96 million shortfall in the state’s insurance risk pool.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Commercial Motor Carrier insurer Acuity has expanded operations to Texas, the company announced at a press conference at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition on Oct. 21.