Insurance News - Friday, March 15, 2013

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Friday, March 15, 2013:

• Car insurance won’t kick-start election.  I would agree, all the public is angry about rates it's not a big enough issue to run a campaign on and unions have also expressed that concern. But you never know.
• Desjardins General Insurance posted net income of $185.9 million in 2012 compared to $128.2 million in 2011, a 45% increase. Return on equity (ROE) was 20.9%, up from 17.4% in 2011.
• Florida governor fears that Canadians stayed away due to driving permit fiasco, he indicated the law is in the process of being removed from the books.
• NICB is concerned that staged accidents targeting big rigs could turn deadly.
• A bill that sets the legal limit to driving "stoned" (5 nanograms of active THC per milliliter of blood) was passed by the Colorado House Judiciary Committee.