Auto Insurance Specialists

Buffett to Get License for Bond Insurance

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:22:36 -0800

CNBC - ... owns some 50 businesses, including auto insurer Geico . Buffett and Ajit Jain, who heads Buffett's insurance businesses, will also seek approval to operate in California, Puerto Rico, Texas, Illinois and Florida, the report

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Auto Club Offers Tipsy Tow Service for New Year's

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:40:05 -0800

Market Wire - The Auto Club estimates that a first time DUI conviction can cost $13,468 or more in fines, penalties, restitution, legal fees and increased insurance costs. Current laws, enforcement, public awareness, and education efforts by public service ...

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Car Crashes into Two Houses

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:50:48 -0800

Police are trying to figure out what caused a driver to lose control of a car on a Rochester street and crash into two houses. It happened on Seward Street around 4 a.m. Monday. Police say the car was heading south on Seward when the driver lost control and struck the porches of two

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Vehicle theft affects everyone s insurance

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:02:18 -0800

Meridian Star - Whether it s the work of elaborate theft rings or random individual crime, auto theft is big business. On average, a vehicle is stolen every 25 seconds in the United States at a cost of about $8 billion a year Insurance for theft is included in the ...

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Allstate Makes Finding the Right Auto Policy

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:11:05 -0800

Forbes - Allstate recently unveiled two new online interactive auto insurance-related tools on Allstate.com that answer common questions in plain English and help consumers better understand their insurance needs. Bumper-to-Bumper Basics(SM) is an interactive ...

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Quebec spells doom to 'zoom zoom

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:09:14 -0800

Montreal Gazette - The Quebec government will move to ban advertising that sell cars as sporting goods and that glorify speed. Transport Minister Julie Boulet proposed an amendment to the highway safety bill yesterday that will give the provincial auto insurance board ...

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Let's honor the year's esteemed

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:10:34 -0800

St. Petersburg Times - ... Legislature Award to Florida legislators for a year full of ill-conceived measures from property tax reform and promised, not delivered property insurance fixes to the death - no, wait! - revival of personal injury protection, or PIP, auto insurance. ...

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Luxury cars put to the test

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:01:22 -0800

By RALPH VARTABEDIAN A car crash at 3 mph is rarely fatal, unless the driver dies of a heart attack when he or she sees the repair bill. A series of crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety this year has shown just how badly new cars are performing in what should be minor fender benders. Bumpers cannot handle 3 to 6 mph collisions without taking out grills, hoods, fenders and

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Thinking Like Car Thieves

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:34:29 -0800

Indiana ranks number 20 in the nation for vehicle thefts. Police say a vehicle is reported stolen just about every day in Evansville. Allstate insurance company bought a car and took it to professional car dismantlers at Ivy Tech Community

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Finding fault with insurance 'solutions'

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:40:30 -0800

Newsday - Virtually every presidential candidate would solve the crisis of the 47 million medically uninsured Americans with "individual mandates," requiring that they buy private health insurance just as they must buy auto insurance if they drive. Democrats ...

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Insurance 101: The basic points

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:54:08 -0800

Skip this article if you already understand health insurance. Or if you have a weak stomach, because it is never pretty to see society's humanistic ideals challenged by a system that pits the interests of the young and healthy against those of the old and

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Living the Hydrogen Life

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:52:56 -0800

New York Times - His auto insurance company would provide only liability and bodily-injury coverage. Honda pays the collision insurance, because they re going to take the risk of the million-dollar crunch, he said. But it s the valet-parking guys who are ...

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The Hanover Insurance Group Announces 8.5 Percent Rate Decrease for Motorcycle Policies

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:40:36 -0800

WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hanover Insurance Group, ( Nachrichten ) Inc. , a leading writer of auto, home and business insurance in Massachusetts, is lowering insurance premiums in Massachusetts for new and renewal motorcycle policies by 8.5

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Progressive Puts Down Even Deeper Roots in Phoenix as It Celebrates ...

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:05:30 -0800

Forbes - The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, in business since 1937, is the country's third largest auto insurance group and largest seller of motorcycle and personal watercraft policies based on premiums written, and is a market leader in ...

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Electric Insurance Company Names Thomas Bottichio CFO and VP of Finance

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:19:42 -0800

BEVERLY, Mass.----Electric Insurance Company, a Beverly, Massachusetts based national provider of auto, homeowners, condominium, and renters insurance announced today that Thomas Bottichio has been appointed chief financial officer and vice president of

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