Response Insurance News

With Sacramento the latest in a growing number of communities enacting accident response fees, both state and national polling has found that Californians are overwhelmingly opposed to so called ˜crash taxes.' A poll by the Insurance Information Network of California recently found that 50 percent of Californians objected to cities charging fees for emergency services at traffic accidents; only 21 percent supported the fees. Moreover, 62 percent said they opposed insurers being billed for the...

MERIDEN, Conn., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Response Insurance Group of Companies, including the Washington licensed National Merit Insurance Company, announced it would voluntarily comply with Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler's request related to its auto insurance customers in FEMA-declared disaster counties. As a result, Response will withdraw insurance cancellations or non-renewals issued or effective between "one week prior" to Dec. 3, 2007, and is making adjustments to ensu...

MERIDEN, Conn., June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to auto insurance, many safe drivers in Texas have very little to show for the care and responsibility they exercise behind the wheel. The Response Insurance Group has introduced an innovative new program to benefit safe drivers in Texas."That's why we appreciate the Texas Department of Insurance for working with us when we presented our plan to create a rate structure that much more closely reflects a person's driving record and their own ...

MERIDEN, Conn., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Response Insurance, a national direct-to-the-consumer auto insurer, gained the cooperation of Google to stop a company suspected of violating the Company's federally registered trademark RESPONSE INSURANCE by using the name to link to a non-Response Insurance sponsored web site. However, the practice employed by that company -- AutoandHome.com -- appears to continue with other insurers, among them Allstate, Nationwide, Travelers, The Hartford, Erie, and Li...