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Plenty of Car Buyers Assume Federal Law Gives Them Three Days to Cancel a Purchase and Walk Away, but the FTC Says That Right Simply Does Not Exist
Sign the paperwork on a new car, drive it off the lot, and get home
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Automakers Get to Run Their Own Arbitration Programs for Lemon Law Complaints, and Consumer Advocates Say the Deck Is Stacked Against the Owner From the Start
A car that won’t stop stalling, a transmission that’s been “fixed” four times without success,
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One Signed Power of Attorney Form Is All It Takes for Someone Else to Quietly Transfer Your Car Title, and You Might Not Find Out Until It Is Too Late
A single signature on a power-of-attorney form is all it takes for someone else to
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One Pennsylvania Tow Operator Took So Much Money From Stranded Drivers That He Now Owes 379,000 Dollars Back or He Is Going to Prison Instead of Home
A Pittsburgh-area tow operator who spent years hitting stranded drivers and their insurers with wildly
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Signing for a Used Car Marked As Is Feels Like Giving Up Every Legal Protection You Have, but Federal Trade Commission Rules Say That Is Simply Not True
Signing a bill of sale marked “as is” feels like signing away every legal protection
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Owning the Exact Same Rebuilt Salvage Title Car Comes With Completely Different Rules Depending on Nothing More Than Which State Happened to Issue the Title
The same wrecked Honda, rebuilt to identical mechanical standards, faces three completely different paths back
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Giving Your Own Insurance Company a Simple Recorded Statement After a Crash Feels Routine, but It Can Quietly Be Used to Shrink or Deny Your Own Claim
Minutes after a crash, an insurance company will often ask for a recorded statement, and
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Every State in the Country Has Its Own Lemon Law Ready to Protect Buyers Stuck With a Defective New Car, Yet Almost Nobody Actually Knows How to Use Theirs
Every state has a lemon law on the books, and in Georgia the trigger for
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Someone You Have Never Met Could Be Registering a Car Under Your Own Name Right Now Using Nothing More Than Your Own Vehicle Identification Number
Christene Bosse found out someone had stolen her identity when her own insurance company called
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Some Auto Lenders Have Been Quietly Slipping a Second, Far More Expensive Insurance Policy Onto Borrowers Who Already Had Coverage of Their Own in Place
Fifth Third Bank collected more than $12.7 million in insurance fees from auto loan borrowers
