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State insurance laws determine whether your insurance follows a tort system or a no-fault system. Pennsylvania is a tort state. What does this mean for your personal auto insurance?

Planning to rent a car? You’ll be asked if you want to buy supplemental insurance coverage. Here’s how to determine if you need the extra protection. https://buff.ly/3oqgssz

These specific factors will have an effect on your auto insurance rate. For example, a higher annual mileage will increase your exposure to risk. Likewise, rural areas have fewer claims than urban ones.

Business meals have increased from 50% to 100% deductible in 2021 and 2022. The temporary deduction is intended to help revive the restaurant industry in light of coronavirus-related closings. Do you plan to take advantage of the increased deduction rate this year?

Super Bowl Advertisements Budweiser is the latest corporation to back out of advertising during this year’s broadcast, choosing instead to join a public awareness campaign for the COVID-19 vaccine. For the first time in 37 years, the company won’t air its game-stealing commercials, Anheuser-Busch, which owns Budweiser, announced Monday.... Thirty-second ad spots for the Super Bowl reportedly go for about $55 million a piece. Budweiser will join Coke, Pepsi and Hyundai and will instead route some of that money to the Ad Council’s efforts to raise public awareness about the vaccine, as well as a 90-second COVID-themed film called Bigger Picture narrated by actress Rashida Jones. It will air digitally leading up to the Super Bowl, which airs on Feb. 7, 2021 on CBS.

Today in 1976 Concorde takes off! From London’s Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris, the first Concordes with commercial passengers simultaneously take flight on January 21, 1976. The London flight was headed to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and the Paris to Rio de Janeiro via Senegal in West Africa. At their cruising speeds, the innovative Concordes flew well over the sound barrier at 1,350 miles an hour, cutting air travel time by more than half. The flights were... the culmination of a 12-year effort that pitted English and French engineers against their counterparts in the USSR. In 1962, 15 years after U.S. pilot Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier, Britain and France signed a treaty to develop the world’s first supersonic passenger airline. The next year, President John F. Kennedy proposed a similar U.S. project. On October 24, 2003, the Concorde took its last regular commercial flight due to loud noise, pollution and safety issues. See more