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Owning a vehicle isn't cheap. In 2022, a study from Triple-A showed that the average cost to own and operate a new vehicle was more than $10,700 per year. With that much money already being spent on maintaining a car, the last thing a driver — or their insurance carrier – wants is for preventable claims to push that number even higher.

For this episode of Insurance Speak, we were joined by Ken Huening, vehicle expert and CEO of CoverSeal, to discuss some of these preventable claims – specifically, the danger rodents pose to vehicles. A climate change-driven increase in these critters combined with the advancing technology being integrated into vehicles creates an interesting claims landscape.

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Brittney Meredith-Miller

Brittney Meredith-Miller is assistant editor of PropertyCasualty360.com. She can be reached at [email protected].

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