Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster’s office announced today that it has filed suits against six companies selling extended auto-service contracts and alleged that the firms, all located in suburban St. Louis, tricked consumers into buying so-called “extended warranties” through unfair…

Extended auto-service contracts probably aren’t worth the money, according to a story in the December issue of Car and Driver.

The magazine conducted a secret-shopper sting on St. Charles County’s three biggest brokers of so-called extended warranties: Wentzille-based US Fidelis; St. Peters-based…

The St. Louis area’s big “extended warranty” firms are splitting hairs if they think they can avoid Missouri regulations on extended auto-service contracts by selling product warranties tied to the purchase of auto additives, said a spokesman for the state’s…

I wrote a story in Tuesday’s paper about cancellation penalties assessed by Mogi, a St. Charles-based broker of extended auto-service contracts. If you’re interested in more information about the allegations against the company, you’re in luck: here is the federal…

Companies that sell extended auto-service contracts frequently are accused of deceiving consumers, violating telemarketing laws, peddling worthless products and failing to give refunds owed to customers upon cancellation.

Those allegations tend to dominate news coverage of the industry, and they rarely…

If you missed it, there’s a story in today’s paper by Elizabethe Holland about a settlement in the lawsuit by Verizon Wireless against US Fidelis, the Wentzville-based broker of extended auto-service contracts.

As part of the settlement, the company is banned from making…