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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 ...

When your car breaks and the shop hands you a repair bill you can't cover, you immediately hit panic mode. Work, school drop-off, grocery runs, doctor visits, all of it starts wobbling at once. The ...

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