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Car insurance premiums jump 31 percent

The cost of car insurance has risen by almost a third in the past year its biggest ever increase as insurers seek to offset a sharp rise in claims expenses driven in part by fraud AA Insurance said.

4 shortest routes to cheap car insurance

Don't insure your car for more than you have to. Follow these tips to getting cheap car insurance.

Insurance calls continue after Ozarks downpour

Car damage may be covered, but water damage in the home may not, and the cost can add up quickly.

Crash fraud driving up cost of car insurance

YOUNG drivers are increasingly prepared to stage motor accidents in order to claim on their insurance, according to figures published as insurers warn that such fraud continue

Watchdog bans insurance broker

An insurance broker was banned for using clients' cash to pay himself bonuses and buy a luxury car.

Police car crashes during pursuit

Three men are arrested after a high speed pursuit ends with a crash involving a police car and two other vehicles in Peterborough.

In post-health-reform U.S., insurance workers figure out how to fit in

In post-health-reform U.S., insurance workers figure out how to fit in By kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Sep 3, 2010 06:44PM MDT Insurance agents and brokers, at risk of becoming irrelevant in the post-health-reform world of simplified insurance shopping, are casting about for a new future. Their sales and marketing role could become redundant come 2014, when under the Affordable ...

More choice on car rental

Car insurance companies in New York State are now prohibited from mandating the use of a particular rental vehicle company, state Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer (D-Ozone Park) announced last week.

Questions Of Cash: 'My memories of US road trip are soured by hire-car crash'

Q. After finishing studying in the US I treated myself to a West Coast road trip, hiring a car from Hertz at Los Angeles airport. I paid $117 (£76) for rental car protection and $168.35 (£109) as a Liability Insurance Supplement. At Huntington Beach I was hit from behind while stationary at a red light. I immediately notified the police, obtained a witness statement confirming I was not at fault ...