NU Online News Service, Sept. 28, 4:10 p.m. EDT

The insurance industry and safety agencies remain divided over whether laws to ban distracted driving are indeed reducing highway accidents and deaths.

In a statement, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) and the National Safety Council (NSC) said they strongly disagreed with new research from the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), a unit of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

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