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 ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that may occur after a traumatic event such as a car accident. Without treatment, it can have long-term effects, including flashbacks ...

Car insurance rates go up by an average of 49% if you cause an accident. Your rates usually won't go up if the accident wasn't your fault or if your policy includes accident forgiveness. And not every ...

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The overall severity of the car accident and the resulting cost of an insurance claim can affect a rate increase. A minor parking lot fender bender typically won’t have the same impact as a major ...

A six-year CBS News investigation has found potential dangers from vehicle seatbacks — and a possibly outdated government safety standard. Vehicle front seats can collapse in rear-end collisions, ...

In this day and age, vehicle manufacturers are constantly developing safety features to reduce road accident-related fatalities worldwide. While these technological advancements are slowly reducing ...

A car slammed into a home's garage Saturday in the north suburbs, video of the scene showed.