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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Seniors pay an average of $887 per year for minimum car insurance coverage. Geico is the cheapest widely available option, ...

Car insurance laws might let you skate by with the bare minimum -- but that doesn't mean you should. State minimum coverage is often too low to offer real protection, and if you cause an accident, it ...

Travelers works with agents to sell, update and maintain insurance policies. While this approach can sometimes lead to higher costs, that doesn’t seem to be the case with Travel ...

In our rating of the best car insurance companies, USAA earned a score of 4.6 out of 5. It scored especially high in our cost ...

Are high coverage costs delaying your new car purchase?

John McCormick is a former deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal and has been an editor and reporter at several other media outlets, including Digital Insurance and Financial Planning, where he ...

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