The Auto Channel
The Largest Independent Automotive Research Resource
The Largest Independent Automotive Research Resource
Official Website of the New Car Buyer

IIHS President To Retire

Washington DC December 19, 2005; The AIADA newsletter reported that Brian O’Neill, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, will retire effective at year end, Automotive News reports. Institute COO Adrian Lund will succeed Mr. O’Neill, who has served as IIHS President for the past 20 years. "I think one of the things that the institute’s been able to do is, in effect, help empower the safety guys inside the car companies," says O’Neill. "We’ve made their jobs perhaps more important than they might have been without the pressure we were bringing to bear."