January 17, 2021 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Insurance Company,
NEWSLETTER,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
speed limits,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets By guest writer Eric Peters The problem with speed limits is they’re arbitrary and presumptive. A velocity maximum is decreed, and you are presumed a threat to others if you exceed it. Almost everyone understands this is silly—else almost everyone would not “speed” routinely. Most of us do not play Russian roulette, for instance, irrespective […]
As of November 5th, 33 people have been charged in an elaborate staged-accident scam involving slammers, spotters, crooked lawyers, and doctors. All are accused of conspiring to bilk insurance companies and commercial carriers for damages. The local police and FBI investigations are ongoing and more people are expected to be indicted in the near future. […]
April 14, 2019 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FARS,
IIHS,
INSURANCE,
Insurance Company,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMSL,
SPEED LIMIT,
Traffic Tickets By Gary Biller, NMA President Every two or three years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) splashes the media with a recycled report of how many deaths have occurred due to raised speed limits. And reporters dutifully echo it as gospel because sensational headlines like, “Speed limit increases are tied to 37,000 deaths over […]
March 10, 2019 • ACLU,
CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ILLEGAL SEARCH,
ILLINOIS,
INDIANA,
INSURANCE,
Insurance Company,
IOWA,
LICENSE PLATE,
MINNESOTA,
Motorcycle,
NEW JERSEY,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
OHIO,
OOIDA,
PENNSYLVANIA,
RACIAL PROFILING,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
RENTAL CAR,
TEXAS,
TICKET CAMERA,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC STOP,
Traffic Tickets,
VERMONT Many motorist rights court cases have made news in the past three months. Last week, we presented the first part of this update that focused on federal court decisions, and a few from the US Supreme Court. This week, we are diving into key motorist-related cases in state supreme or appellate courts. Our hope is […]
December 30, 2018 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
AUTO INDUSTRY,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Congestion Pricing,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
Insurance Company,
ITE,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
NSC,
NTSB,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Ridesharing,
ROAD-USER FEES,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
Traffic Safety,
Traffic Tickets We wanted to do something special for Issue #520 because it marks ten years of uninterrupted weekly NMA e-newsletters that, we hope, have provided entertaining (if not thought-provoking) perspectives. To carry on that tradition, NMA and NMA Foundation directors were asked to provide mini essays for the occasion. No one likes homework but they tackled […]
