Title:
Auto Insurance Now Covers Family Pets At No Extra Cost
Source: TCPALM
Author: Tracie Sullivan
Date: 7/14/2008
Summary: "For a dog, nothing could be better
than a ride in the car with the windows down..."
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Title:
Insurers Offer Low-Mileage Discounts
Source: Wall
Street Journal
Author: M.P. McQueen
Date: 6/12/2008
Summary: "Car owners who are changing their
driving habits because of soaring gas prices may be able to save a
few dollars on auto insurance..."
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Title:
Block: Car Insurance Costs Driving You Crazy? Here's How To Save
Source: Clarionledger.com
Author: Sandra Block
Date: 5/22/2008
Summary: "As the price of gas accelerates toward
$5 a gallon, it's time to think about another painful cost of driving:auto
insurance..."
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Title:
Young Drivers On The Radar
Source: Wall
Street Journal
Author: M.P. McQueen
Date: 3/27/2008
Summary: "Insurers are pursuing a group of drivers
that they've traditionally tried to avoid: teenagers and young adults..."
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Title:
Auto Insurers Paying Up To Compete For Drivers
Source: Wall
Street Journal
Author: Lavonne Kuykendall
Date: 4/9/2008
Summary: "For auto insurers, 2008 is shaping
up to be another tough years..."
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Title:
The $5,000 Car Insurance Bill
Source: MSN
Money
Author: Lucy Lazarony
Date: 3/13/2008
Summary: "If you're considered high-risk by
the insurance industry--as young, urban drivers are-- your premiums
may exceed the value of the car you own..."
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Title:
Fewer Youths Jump Behind The Wheel At 16
Source: New
York Times
Author: Mary Chapman & Micheline Maynard
Date: 2/25/2008
Summary: "For generations, driver's licenses
have been tickets to freedom for America's 16-year-olds..."
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Title:
Mitchell: Auto Total Loss Trends On Decline
Source: National
Underwriter
Author: NU Online News Services
Date: 2/13/2008
Summary: "Auto insurance collision claims involving
total losses have declined since 2004..."
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Title:
Lawmakers Blast Spitzer's $15 Charge On Auto Insurance
Source: Newsday.com
Author: Michael Gormley
Date: 2/13/2008
Summary: "A proposal to charge New Yorkers a
$15 fee on their auto insurance faced a road block Wednesday..."
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Title:
Towns Seek Cash Per Crash From Out-Of-Town Drivers
Source: USA
TODAY
Author: Lori Kurtzman
Date: 1/31/2008
Summary: "In the tiny village of New Richmond,
Ohio, most people who get involved in car accidents are from somewhere
else..."
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Title:
Body Shop Rush Hour
Source: The
Gazette
Author: Debbie Kelley
Date: 1/31/2008
Summary: "Slick roads from a regular cycle of
wintry storms have caused pileups at local auto body shops..."
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Title:
Drivers Need Protection From Unscrupulous Insurers
Source: Hartford
Courant
Author: Thomas Bivona
Date: 1/28/2008
Summary: "The Connecticut Department of Insurance
appears to be in the throes of schizophrenia when it comes to enforcing
auto repair labor rate and anti-steering laws..."
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Title:
Steering By Auto Insurers Targeted
Source: Hartford
Courant
Author: Diane Levick
Date: 1/18/2008
Summary: "The Auto Body Association of Connecticut
and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal highlighted one consumer's
nightmare Thursday as they renewed their drive for stronger legislation
to stop the steering of consumers to insurers' preferred repairers..."
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Title:
Should You Say Yes To Rental Car Insurance?
Source: USA
Today
Author: Gary Stoller
Date: 12/14/2007
Summary: "Frequent business traveler James Smith
says he's saved "tons of money" during the past 30 years
declining car rental companies' optional insurance coverage..."
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Title:
Plan Ahead for Car Rental Insurance
Source: Courant.com
Author: N/A
Date: 11/30/2007
Summary: "If you're renting a car over the holidays,
chances are a clerk at the counter will try to sell you some pricey
insurance options. Should you fork out the extra cash? ..."
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Title:
Rental Cars, Insurance Policies And What Your Credit Card Covers
Source: San
Francisco Chronicle
Author: Ed Perkins
Date: 11/08/2007
Summary: "My first two reports on the growing
gaps in credit-card coverage for rental car damage generated more
e-mail than anything I've written over the past 20 years..."
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Title:
Company Adds Collision Benefit for Pets
Source: NY
Times
Author: Associated
Press
Date: 11/13/2007
Summary: "To a dog that loves drives in the
car while sticking a head out a window to feel the wind, insurance
isn't a concern ..."
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Title:
Car Insurers' Devices Track Teen Drivers
Source: AP
Author: Dave Carpenter
Date: 10/12/2007
Summary: "When 17-year-old Anna Kinderman takes
a turn too fast in her parents' sedan or jams the brakes too hard,
she apologizes aloud even when no one else is in the car..."
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Title:
Vehicle Theft Drops Again in 2006
Source: Insurance
Journal
Author: NICB
Date: 10/9/2007
Summary: "In
2006, 1,192,809 motor vehicles were reported stolen which is 42,417
fewer than in 2005, representing the third year in a row that vehicle
theft has declined...."
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Title:
Cut The Cost Of insuring Your Teen Driver
Source: MSN
Money
Author: Liz
Pulliam Weston
Date: 9/18/2007
Summary: "Your premiums soar when your teen
gets their license, but these tips from insurance pros--who also happen
to be parents-- can ease the financial stress..."
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Title: Fender-Benders Cost Luxury Car Owners
Source: NY
Times
Author: The Associated Press
Date: 8/2/2007
Summary: "Buying an expensive car can bring
an owner style, prestige and repair bills in the thousands of dollars
to fix damage caused by minor fender-benders ..."
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Title:
Putting Your Child In The Driver's Seat
Source: Post-Gazette.com
Author: Don Hammonds
Date: 7/19/2007
Summary: "Buying a car for a high school or
college student doesn't have to be as frightening as the first time
you loaned them the keys to your car..."
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Title:
New Cars That Are Too Hot To Handle
Source: MSN
Money.com
Author: Wall
Street Journal
Date: 7/17/2007
Summary: "Call it a metaphor for a prosperous,
risk embracing age or just call it bad driving..."
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Title:
Auto Theft Database Is Left To Languish
Source: Boston.com
Author: Bryan Bender
Date: 7/16/2007
Summary: "WASHINGTON -- Fifteen years after
states were directed to share motor vehicle information in a national
database, only nine states have done so, making it nearly impossible
to identify hundreds of thousands of stolen vehicles ..."
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Title:
Teenage Road Deaths A Result of Inexperience
Source: Chron.com
Author: Melanie Markley
Date: 6/15/2007
Summary: "Car crashes are the leading cause
of death among teens, experts say, largely because of their inexperience
at the wheel and their lack of maturity at assessing risky situations...."
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Title:
Insurer Tattles On Kids Who Speed
Source: USA
TODAY
Author: Robert Davis
Date: 6/5/2007
Summary: "Safeco Insurance (SAF) unveils a teen
driving package Tuesday that notifies parents when their young driver
speeds, breaks curfew or drives outside of an agreed-upon area...."
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Title:
One-Stop Car Insurance Service, Body Work Included
Source: New
York Times
Author: Joseph B. Treaster
Date: 5/26/2007
Summary: "Several insurance companies have decided
their old strategy for handling car-damage claims is in need of repair...."Read
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Title: AIG Auto Insurance
Launches GPS Based Teen Driver Pilot Program
Source: InsuranceNewsNet
Author: N/A
Date: 4/9/2007
Summary: "AIG Auto Insurance today announced
the AIG Teen GPS Program for auto insurance policyholders with teen
drivers...."Read
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Title:
Car Insurance Costing Less
Source: NorthJersey.com
Author: McClatchy Newspapers
Date: 2/22/2007
Summary: "In an age when a gallon of gas costs
an average of $2.26, car owners can rejoice at a little bit of good
news: The typical American driver will pay less for auto insurance
this year than in 2006, according to the Insurance Information Institute...."Read
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Title:
Car Insurance: Take the High Road
Source: BusinessWeek.com
Author: Alex
Halperin
Date: 2/15/2007
Summary: "Here are five of the most common blunders
to steer around when choosing a policy to insure your wheels..."Read
more
Title:Industry
Defends Job, Education As Rating Factors
Source: Insurance
Journal
Author: N/A
Date: 2/13/2007
Summary: "Insurers are defending the factors they use in pricing
auto insurance, including the occupation and education levels of insureds,
arguing that the criteria have been actuarially tested for their ability
to predict losses....."Read
more
Title:
Little Opposition to Side Crash Tests for Child Seats, But Hurdles
Exist
Source: USA
Today
Author: Jayne O'Donnell
Date: 2/8/2007
Summary: "Child safety seats don't have to pass
federal side impact crash tests like cars do, something Consumer Reports
hoped to change with a controversial January report it later retracted....."Read
more
Title:
Study: Many Teens Tired & Distracted While Driving
Source:
Insurance
Journal
Author: N/A
Date: 1/25/2007
Summary: "For
2005, the most stolen vehicle in the nation was the 1991 Honda Accord,
according to Hot Wheels, the National Insurance Crime Bureau's companion
study to its annual Hot Spots auto theft report....."Read
more
Title:
2006 Most Stolen Vehicles
Source: Insurance
Journal
Author: N/A
Date: 11/1/2006
Summary: "For 2005, the most stolen
vehicle in the nation was the 1991 Honda Accord, according to Hot
Wheels, the National Insurance Crime Bureau's companion study to its
annual Hot Spots auto theft report....."Read
more
Title:
Systems Warn Drivers of Deer in Headlights
Source: USA
TODAY
Author: Charisse Jones
Date: 10/5/2006
Summary: "Several states plan to test roadside
sensor systems that can detect large animals and warn drivers in a
bid to reduce sometimes-deadly collisions between motor vehicles and
deer, moose and other wildlife...."Read
more
Title: Studies Show SUV Air Bags Shielding Heads,
Bodies Reduce Risk of Death
Source: USA
TODAY
Author: Jayne O'Donnell
Date: 10/5/2006
Summary: "Air bags that protect both the heads and
bodies of SUV drivers and their passengers can cut the risk of death
in side crashes by more than half, an insurance industry-funded study
out Thursday shows...."Read
more
Title:
Ford to Make Stability Control Standard by Late 2009
Source: Insurance
Journal
Author: Ken Thomas
Date: 9/14/2006
Summary: "Ford Motor Co. will make rollover-reducing technology
a standard feature on all new vehicles by the end of 2009......"Read
more
Title:
Motorcycle Airbags Part of Saftey Trend
Source: The
New York Times
Author: The Associated Press
Date: 9/14/2006
Summary: "Jeaneen Parsons' husband steered their motorcycle
to the ground seven years ago to avoid hitting a passenger whose cycle
went down on a twisting mountain road in Kentucky......"Read
more
Title: NTSB Investigates Motorcycle Crashes
as Fatalities Rise
Source: Washington
Post
Author: Leslie Miller
Date: 9/13/2006
Summary: "Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's
near-fatal crash on a motorcycle this year reflected a troubling trend:
More bikers are getting killed on the road ......"Read
more
Title:
America's Most Stolen Vehicles
Source: ForbesAutos.com
Author: ForbesAutos.com
Date: 8/1/2006
Summary: "Going outside and finding broken glass where your
car used to be parked is a stomach-sickening experience......"Read
more
Title:
Car Insurance for Teenage Drivers
Source: Edmunds.com
Author: Philip Reed
Date: N/A
Summary: "The statistics about teenage drivers aren't good....."Read
more
Title:
Risk of Teen Drivers Extends to Many Others
Source: MSNBC
Author: Associated Press
Date: 1/18/06
Summary: "AAA Report: One-third of crash deaths involve pedestrians,
other on road...."Read
more
Title:
Top Five Hybrids of 2006
Source: About.com
Author: Eric Powers
Date: 1/14/2006
Summary: "Here is the list of the top 5 hybrid cars based on
fuel efficiency...."Read
more
Title:
Steer Clear of "Flood Cars"
Source:
MSN Money
Author: Chris Solomon
Date: 9/15/2005
Summary: "Hurricane Katrina swamped hundreds of thousands of
new and used cars. Some of them will be polished up and sold in used
car lots near you..."Read
more
Title:
13 Easy Ways to Save Money on Gas
Source: About.com
Author: Deborah Fowles
Date: 9/14/2005
Summary: "The cost of commuting, running errands, or vacationing
by car has risen with higher gasoline prices..."Read
more
Title:
When is an Increase Unfair?
Source: About.com
Author: Mark
Kahler
Date: 9/13/2005
Summary: "There is ample evidence that tragedy brings out the
best in many people. But in a few people, such calamity brings out
the worst greed and cruelty imaginable..."Read
more
Title:
Does Everyone Have to Have Auto Insurance?
Source: About.com
Author: Bobbie
Sage
Date: 9/13/2005
Summary: "The simple answer to the question is..."Read
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Title:
Top 10 Fuel-Saving Cars
Source: About.com
Author: Aaron Gold
Date: 9/12/2005
Summary: "With the cost of fuel rising to levels the rest of
the world endures, North Americans are beginning to consider gas mileage
when purchasing a car..."Read
more
Title:
Most Stolen Cars
Source: CNNMoney.com
Author: Peter Valdes-Dapena
Date: 3/2/2004
Summary: "Toyota & Honda still top the list, according
to insurance group count from FBI data..."Read
more
Title:
Survey Ranks States With Dumbest Drivers
Source: CNN.com
Author: N/A
Date: 5/27/2005
Summary: "Knowledge is power, and knowing some details about
auto coverage can save you money..."Read
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