Mercedes May Help Owners Get Inexpensive Auto Insurance with Safer Car Mercedes  has long been known as one of the safest vehicles on the road, but that hasn’t stopped the car manufacturer from attempting accident free driving. Its newest protocol, the Experimental Safety Vehicle, demonstrates some impressive new features that could reduce injury and death, and possibly even accidents. If brought to market, you can bet you will see inexpensive auto insurance rates for drivers of Mercedes. The car essentially turns itself ...

Married drivers are risking their no-claims discount Couples wishing to transfer car insurance between spouses face a costly barrier, as one Independent reader found out. When May Belt renewed her car insurance last month, she got a shock. Because she wanted to transfer the policy from her husband to herself, she was told she would lose her no-claims discount. "I couldn't believe it," says May, 75, who lives in Leeds. "I have had a driving licence for 50 years and we had ...

Voters To Learn of Prop 17 Car Insurance Surcharges Judge Allen Sumner has upheld Attorney General Jerry Brown's Official Title and Summary of Proposition 17, which warns rates will go up for drivers who don't have continuous coverage. In wake of the ruling, voters will now learn in the ballot pamphlet that Prop 17 will allow insurance companies to increase rates on California drivers based on their history of buying vehicle insurance. Opponents and proponents pushed hard in court to change the Title ...

Cheat Sheet To Getting The Best El Paso Auto Insurance Quotes Did you ever wish that there was a shortcut to finding the best insurance quotes in El Paso? A way around having to assemble lists of hand written quotes that are just too much trouble? The days of lengthy phone calls to numbers from the phone book are thankfully over. With a few minutes on the internet, you can save countless hours that you used to use spend speaking with ...

In a surprise, the former auto tycoon agreed with the bankruptcy trustee that his $767 million debt will not be forgiven Besieged auto dealer Denny Hecker this week gave up his desperate court fight to get out of debt so he can focus his energies on staying out of prison. In a surprising twist, the defeated auto mogul agreed with the bankruptcy trustee that his $767 million debt will not be forgiven. Just a week ago, Hecker bitterly declared that the trustee in ...

Extended Stay Hotels Inc.’s examiner filed under seal his report addressing claims that two private-equity firms schemed with the hotel chain’s senior lenders to push out junior debt holders and take over the company by bankrupting it. Ralph Mabey, a former bankruptcy judge, filed his report under seal yesterday in Extended Stay’s case docket. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James M. Peck in Manhattan on March 10 granted Mabey’s request to keep the report under wraps temporarily. ...

There is a class of men—shadowy, unhappy, unreal-looking men—who gather in coffee houses, and play with a desire that dieth not, and a fire that is not quenched. These gather in clubs and play tournaments...but there are others who have the vice who live in country places, in remote situations—curates, schoolmasters, tax collectors—who must needs find some artificial vent for their mental energy. —H.G. Wells, Concerning Chess THE players and their seconds now gathered in Reykjavik for the world ...

There is a class of men—shadowy, unhappy, unreal-looking men—who gather in coffee houses, and play with a desire that dieth not, and a fire that is not quenched. These gather in clubs and play tournaments...but there are others who have the vice who live in country places, in remote situations—curates, schoolmasters, tax collectors—who must needs find some artificial vent for their mental energy. —H.G. Wells, Concerning Chess THE players and their seconds now gathered in Reykjavik for the world ...

A People's History of Sports in the United States By Dave Zirin The New Press; 268 pp. The Gist: In A People's History of Sports in the United States Zirin sets out to deflate the misconception that sports are "only a game." He chafes at those who dismiss them as entertainment or cordon them off from weightier subject matters, arguing instead that sports are a valuable prism through which to examine American history. Like the work that was Zirin’s inspiration—Howard Zinn's ...

College football may seem like a religion to Americans, but to many American Catholics the University of Notre Dame football team is the incarnation of their faith in sport. Yet, apart from the battle for the college football national championship, the biggest biggest news in college football this season has been the continued decline of Notre Dame. After another disappointing season, the University of Notre Dame has lost another football coach. Charlie Weis tried to make the ...