Leslie Ventura is an award-winning journalist from Las Vegas, currently living in Chicago, IL. With more than 10 years of professional writing experience, she has covered everything from arts and ...

Shopping for car insurance can be a real bummer. Rates depend on a variety of factors, including your driving record, location, marital status, and age, so cross-shopping between them can be a hassle.

Speeding tickets, moving violations, and at-fault crashes happen to the best of us. But if you rack up enough of these incidents—or worse yet, if your transgressions include driving recklessly or ...