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Five Great Reasons to Shop Around For Auto Insurance (Stuttgart Daily Leader)
(ARA) - Shopping around is the number one way of saving money on insurance. Are you sure you're getting the best deal possible with your current insurance company?

Cost of operating a car now averages $150 a week, AAA report says (Sun-Sentinel)
Here's an item you might have left out of your personal budget: The average cost of driving a car is now $7,834 a year.

The Hanover Launches Highly-Segmented Connections Auto in Conn. (Insurance Journal)
The Hanover Insurance Group announced the Connecticut launch of Connections Auto, a state-of-the-art, multi-variate auto product with nearly limitless customer segmentation capabilities. Connection

Phony insurance sales on the rise (Daily Record)
NEWYORK -- There's an epidemic of fake insurance policies being sold throughout the country: for health, life, auto, homeowners/renters, disability, prescription drug and long-term-care.

Insurance Auto Auctions Announces Improved Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WESTCHESTER, Ill.----March 27, 2006--Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a leading provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services in the United States, today announced improved financial results and record vehicle returns during both the fourth quarter and full-year 2005.

Esurance Makes Auto Insurance Shopping Easier (SYS-CON Media)
Esurance, the direct-to-consumer auto insurance company, is breaking new ground with its strategic partner, Answer Financial. When customers get a quote from http://www.esurance.com/, they can also view real-time comparison quotes and buy a competitor's policy. Answer Financial provides the engine that facilitates Esurance's real-time comparisons and purchases.

Car Hits Mother, Misses Baby (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)
A teenage mother made a life-saving action Thursday. Tucson police say she was hit by a car, but she got her baby out of the way. The mother was crossing the street with a stroller at Grant and Country Club. Police say the driver of the car was fiddling with a CD player and not paying attention.

Get More Mileage Out Of Your Auto Insurance (Ridgecrest Daily Independent)
(ARA) - Over the past year, gas prices have done nothing but spiral upwards. Consumer frustration has risen accordingly, due to financial constraints as well as consumers' inability to purchase a new car or travel as much as they might have intended.

Just Car Clinics backs repairers' Kitemark (AutoWired)
JUST CAR Clinics is supporting the new proposed BSI "Kitemark" standard for crash repairers. The new standard currently being written in conjunction with the British Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre, Thatcham, will underpin car body repair safety criteria in the future.

State Senate committee greenlights auto bill (Miami Herald)
A bill to extend Florida's no-fault auto insurance system was revised to include a few consumer-friendly provisions and more money to fight insurance fraud. Then it passed its first hurdle in the state Senate Tuesday.

Car Insurance For The Cannonball Run (The Motley Fool UK via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
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Insurance Australia Moves to 98% Ownership of Safety (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Insurance Australia Group Ltd., the nation's largest auto and home insurer, completed a tender offer for shares in Thailand's Safety Insurance Public Co., the country's sixth-biggest motor insurer.

Esurance Makes Auto Insurance Shopping Easier (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Esurance, the direct-to-consumer auto insurance company, is breaking new ground with its strategic partner, Answer Financial.

Top court rules fetuses eligible for accident insurance coverage (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ A fetus borne by a policyholder involved in a car accident is eligible for coverage under a type of casualty insurance policy, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, upholding a high court decision that ordered an insurer to pay damages over an accident in 1999.

Getting smart on insurance (New York Daily News)
If you spent more time researching your new flat-screen television purchase than you did picking out your health insurance plan, you're not alone.

Bill seeks delay on auto insurance (Orlando Sentinel)
State lawmakers try to put off decisions on Personal Injury Protection coverage until the next session. The state Legislature is unsure of what to do this session about Florida's no-fault auto-insurance law, which requires every driver to carry coverage that pays medical bills regardless of who's at fault in a crash.

Insurance panel addresses use of credit scores (Leavenworth Times)
Despite a late winter storm that produced hail, several area insurance agents recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by Lansing Business After Hours.