"auto-insurance" Articles & Blogs:
Moving and Your Auto Insurance
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Moving to a new place is both an exciting and stressful time. There's packing, the move, and so many other details to handle that letting your insurance company know about your new address probably isn't high on your list. But where you live can impact ...[Read on] |
You can’t avoid paying for car insurance, but you can avoid paying too much
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Unless you want to take the bus, you need car insurance. If you’re going to drive, it’s the law in all 50 states. But you can avoid paying too much for it. Here are three ways you can help keep your rate low when it comes time to renew your auto...[Read on] |
Tickets: Don't be a Prisoner to High Auto Insurance Rates
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When shopping for car insurance, one of the first things you'll be asked is: "Have you had any moving violations (tickets) in the last three years?" If the answer is "yes," don't worry, you're not alone. You have something in common with millions of d...[Read on] |
Tickets: Don't be a prisoner to high auto insurance rates
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When shopping for car insurance, one of the first things you'll be asked is: "Have you had any moving violations (tickets) in the last three years?" If the answer is "yes," don't worry, you're not alone. You have something in common with millions of d...[Read on] |
Comparison shop for cheap car insurance
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Just because the economy is in a slump doesn’t mean we should cut the things we need. Take car insurance, for example: car crashes and accidents don’t stop just because the economy is down. There are easy ways to find a cheap car insurance policy, but...[Read on] |
Keep your car insurance premium under control
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Car insurance premiums can be unruly. And unless you keep your premium under control it can take over your budget in no time at all. Pretty soon, you’re paying hundreds of dollars a year more than you should be for car insurance, and there’s no m...[Read on] |
Distracted Driving: Put Down the iPod
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By now we all know that talking on a hand-held cell phone while driving is dangerous. But what about other things that distract us from driving safely?
Are You Guilty of Distracted Driving?
Yes, we all are. Remember all those “Red Asphalt” movies w...[Read on] |
Car insurance claim tips
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We've all been there—pulled off on the side of the road, staring at the back bumper with the huge, fresh dent, wondering who's at fault (them, of course) and if the car insurance company will honor your claim. Filing a car insurance claim doesn't have t...[Read on] |
Tips from 21st Century Insurance: Have a Safe Holiday Season!
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The holiday season is full of family, fun, and goodwill, but it has a darker side. The number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities skyrockets faster than eight tiny reindeer.
Spirited Statistics:
On average from 2001 to 2005 (the last year that co...[Read on] |
Rental Car Insurance Coverage: Do You Need It?
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When you rent a car do you automatically buy rental car insurance? Did you know your rental car may already be covered through your car insurance policy?
Avoid Buying Duplicate Car Insurance CoverageWhen you are thinking about renting a car, say for y...[Read on] |
Tips for parents to save money on car insurance for teen drivers
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A mix of pride and fear is
what most parents feel when their teen begins to drive. During this important time,
parents and teens need to address a number of auto insurance and safe driving issues.
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The cost of auto insurance
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10 Easy Ways to Save on Car Insurance
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When you factor in the cost of gas, tune-ups, registration fees, and maintenance, owning a car can be incredibly expensive! But what most people don't know is that saving money on car insurance is one of the easiest ways to cut costs.
Reviewing your...[Read on] |
Car Insurance: 5 ways to stretch your dollar
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Let’s face it: a dollar simply doesn’t go as far as it used to. Where we used to spend $25 to fill up our gas tank it now costs $35 or $40. That half-gallon of ice cream is now 1.5 quarts and costs double. What is a financially savvy woman to do? Well...[Read on] |
How does your insurance company value your totalled vehicle?
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By Adam Piper, FCC Collision Centers Have you ever wondered how the insurance company decides whether to repair your vehicle or just write it off as a total loss? Here at FCC Collision Centers, we see a broad variety of damaged vehicles, and often ...[Read on] |
How to get the best financing deals on your vehicle purchase
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by Sharleen Benet If you're buying a new car or a truck or any other vehicle, you would look for the price you're getting on the purchase of the vehicle. You must look for ways you can get the best financing deals on your new vehicle purchase. There ar...[Read on] |
How car insurance affects Cash for Clunkers
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The government’s Cash for Clunkers program is back on track and many Americans are heading to car dealers to swap their older cars for new ones. What many people may not realize is that to trade-in an older car, it has to have had car insurance for at l...[Read on] |
Obama Administration Takes Tough Tone on GM, Chrysler
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President Obama insists his administration’s plans will help insure auto industry’s futureAmerican Auto Industry | Today 1:55 pm
Barack Obama refuses to sit by and let the American auto industry squander its bailouts.
As Chrysler and Gen...[Read on] |
Insurance Company: Rape Survivor? Nope, We Won't Take Her
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by Amanda Stone, Volunteer, National Women's Law Center
“Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had survived rape. Let...[Read on] |
Her Ovaries, His Cigarettes: Which Costs More in the Individual Health Insurance Market?
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by Brigette Courtot, Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
For most of their lives, women are charged more than men for health plans in the individual insurance market. This is a consequence of “gender rating,” the common insurance industry pr...[Read on] |
A Mother’s Day Stick Shift: What Mom’s Cars Say About Her
| Many members of the tribe of the auto-obsessed can trace their compulsion back to parental indoctrination—a sort of vehicular Munchausen-by-proxy, in which the implanted toxin is a father’s fascination with a rusty Austin-Healy 3000 or a mother’s pr...[Read on] |
Top 10 tips for senior drivers
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As the baby
boomers head en masse into their senior years, they have more options than ever
to help them stay on the road longer and safer. It's not just about protecting
drivers, either: Other drivers and pedestrians are also at risk. Auto insurance pr...[Read on] |
Women Everywhere Read This: Top Auto Accident Statistics
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According to Online Lawyer Source, vehicular accidents pose a serious threat to the public and auto accident statistics are the leading cause of death for people under the age of 34. Leading cause? This is something serious to consider. For all the moms ...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Women Pay The Price For Health Insurance
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NPR's Morning Edition takes on women and health insurance.
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Infographic: How the Automotive Industry is Embracing Social Media
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At AskPatty, we keep a keen eye on social media as it relates to the auto industry, and it looks like we're not the only ones. Social media is an interesting venue - success here is not gained by spending money on ads - the big gains here come from out-t...[Read on] |
Health Reform Will End Gender Rating, Kind of, Sort of, Maybe…
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by Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
As we’ve discussed here many times before, gender rating is the harmful and discriminatory insurance practice of charging individuals and employers different premiums based on gender. ...[Read on] |
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