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Automakers will be required to inform new-car buyers if an event data recorder has been installed in their vehicles under a new rule issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The Palisades companies, a New Jersey-based group of independent agency companies, was ranked the largest New Jersey auto insurer without one valid consumer complaint in 2005.

According to the NICB, 70,613 motorcycles were stolen last year, a slight decrease from the 71,108 stolen in 2004.

If you are injured in an auto accident, there is a one-in-seven chance that the at-fault driver is uninsured, according to a recent Insurance Research Council (IRC) study.

Are you a Whacky Weaver? Or perhaps a Driving Diva?

Growing up in the 1950s in a family where many members worked in the insurance industry, I considered insurance to be something quite different from business or finance or a job.