Then they have a real incentive to go out shopping for lower-cost coverage, and the industry and insurers have strong incentives to find cheaper ways of giving people the basic things they need.

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"It's rock-bottom low cost and simple one-stop shopping, " Lowell said.

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This venue-shopping may also have cost the Northern plaintiffs a bit of the fees out of damage awards that went to Southern lawyers instead of into their pockets.

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Car-shopping website Edmunds.com estimates Hurricane Sandy cost 30, 000 vehicle sales in October, reducing the closely-monitored Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of car sales to 14.3 million vehicles from the pre-storm forecasted 14.8 million vehicles.

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