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 ...

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 ...

A car insurance deductible is one of the most important elements of your car insurance coverage. It's the amount of money you must pay out of pocket toward an insured loss before your insurer steps in ...

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Leslie Kasperowicz is the former managing editor at insurance marketplace Quote.com. She has spent more than a decade writing about auto and home insurance after spending four years in customer ...

Consumers who change car insurance companies most often do so in pursuit of savings, according to data from a Consumer Reports national survey of more than 40,000 policyholders. In our most recent ...

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As spring break approaches, family gatherings, out-of-town guests and college kids returning home can often lead to handing the keys to your car — and sometimes a bit of carsharing confusion. With ...