Your New Auto Insurance

If you’re like most of us, you’re always busy, so when it’s time to buy car insurance, it’s a relief to know you can do your car insurance shopping online. Comparing insurance quotes online is easy and efficient, so why not join the hundreds of thousands of Americans who purchase home and auto insurance online? It’s safe, it’s secure, and it allows you to review as many quotes as you like before you make your choice.

Going Online to Buy Car Insurance
When you do your car insurance shopping online, it helps to assemble some information about yourself and your car ahead of time so filling out the online forms is easy. You’ll need

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When it comes to auto insurance, there are times when one needs to insure their car for an entire year and times when a day’s worth of coverage will do nicely. In this article, we will take a look at temporary auto insurance and some situations in which you might find that a day, week or month worth of car insurance is all that you need.

First – what is temporary auto insurance? These are car insurance policies that have been put together by insurance companies to allow for very short usage needs. Perhaps you are just using the car for a single day, or know that you’ll be leaving for a long vacation at the end of the month and just want a month worth of insurance. Altho

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This is a weekly feature on the NMA Blog, running each Friday, where we highlight seven of the most interesting driving news stories of the week.

OnStar tracks your car even when you cancel service Navigation-and-emergency-services company OnStar is notifying its six million account holders that it will keep a complete accounting of the speed and location of OnStar-equipped vehicles, even for drivers who discontinue monthly service.

Michigan: Many local speed limits don’t comply with state law Five years ago, lawmakers banned speed limits not set scientifically. B

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Last week, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released a top-10 list of the most frequently stolen vehicles in the United States.

For 2010, the most frequently stolen vehicles are as follows:

1. 1994 Honda Accord

2. 1995 Honda Civic

3. 1991 Toyota Camry

4. 1999 Chevrolet Pickup

5. 1997 Ford F150 Series

6. 2004 Dodge Ram

7. 2000 Dodge Caravan

8. 1994 Acura Integra

9. 2002 Ford Explorer

10. 1999 Ford Taurus

Older vehicles are stolen primarily for valuable spare parts, according to the NICB.

The report indicates that overall incidents of vehicle theft are down, mainly due to improved anti-theft technology.

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Insure4USA.com, a leading online insurance service recently published the list of most expensive vehicles to insure in 2011. According to the traffic rules of the state, all the motorized vehicles are categorized into private or public use. These motorized vehicles are driven on national highways, state highways and city roads. All the motorized vehicles must be properly insured in accordance with rules and regulation of the state. If this national law is violated by the driver and vehicle owner then penalty are charged in the form of heft fines or imprisonment. The driver and vehicle owner should be aware of the latest amendments related to the traffic rules and regulations.

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Next week, I will be moderating and speaking to my fellow personal injury attorneys at a Michigan Association for Justice seminar. The topic is voir dire, or the questioning of prospective jurors.

Voir dire is conducted by lawyers and by a judge in court. It’s a process that’s used to determine if any juror is biased in a way that would tend to favor one side over another in a trial. Voir dire can be as simple as finding out if a juror already knows one of the parties or lawyers or it can be more complicated, like the insurance company executive who is asked to serve on a No-Fault insurance trial on overdue and owing insurance benefits.

In my opinion, voir dire is the most important part of trial.  It is far more important than the opening statement or closing argument. In t

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