Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
What is the insurance institute for highway safety? IIHS was founded in 1959 by three major insurance associations that represent 80 percent of the U.S. auto insurance market. At first, the institute aimed to support highway safety efforts by others. A decade later, IIHS was re-invented as an independent research organization. William Haddon Jr., MD, who served as the country’s first federal highway safety chief, oversaw the change after becoming president of the IIHS in 1969. By then, he had …