America’s Insurance Crisis: How the Average Family’s Home and Auto Coverage Soared to $3,700 a Year After a Series of…

A Beacon Journal colleague recently lamented that his six-month auto insurance premium went up 17%, even though he had no claims, tickets or other changes in his family’s driving patterns. His insurance agent said car insurance rates were going up across the country. So I contacted both Dean Fadel, president of the Ohio Insurance Institute,…

When you sign up for monthly premium car insurance, you usually have to pay a little more for your first payment than you do in payments over the remaining months of the policy. This first payment includes your first month’s premium plus additional fees. These additional fees are sometimes considered a deposit or down payment….

Cheapinsurance.com has compiled a list of how the pandemic has affected the cost of car insurance from a collection of experts and government sources. Pandemic-related trends driving up auto insurance ratesContents1 Pandemic-related trends driving up auto insurance rates2 Automotive technicians are in short supply, making repairs more costly3 Replacing a totaled car is more expensive…