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Special to The Jewish News

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t was an absolute nightmare.
Like any ,other day, Carrie
Benigsohn woke up for work at
7 a.m. on June 25, 1997. She
got ready, grabbed a packet of oat-
meal and headed toward her car for
the ride to work. But when she got to
Debbie Weinstein is a writer from
. West Bloomfield.

the parking
space where her
car sat the night before, panic washed
over her. The space was empty. Her
car was gone. Stolen.
Benigsohn, 25, and a Southfield
resident, called her parents, the police
and her insurance agent — in that
order. That same evening, a resident
of a nearby neighborhood found the
black 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee,
abandoned and running, and report-

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ed it. It was missing both air bags and
more than 40 compact discs.
Benigsohn's auto insurance
replaced the air bags. But as for the
CDs, she was on her own.
"I thought that car insurance coy-

ered everything inside the car," says
Benigsohn. "I really learned my les-
son that day."
She's not alone in thinking that.
It's a popular misconception that car
insurance protects all of the things

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1998

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