Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. Car insurance can be a confusing ...

For decades, Consumer Reports has offered drivers an unwavering recommendation for saving money: Shop around regularly for car insurance, ideally once a year. It’s good advice, but easier said than ...

Knowing your claims history can help you know how much to budget for car insurance. Insurance claims typically cause your premium to increase. So if you have a number of them in your history, you can ...

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Chris Kissell has been a journalist for three decades and has written extensively about insurance and other personal finance topics for the past 20 years. For the last 14 years, he has been a ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...

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