Insurance Information

Tips For Lowering Your Auto Insurance Quote


Do you have many claims? If so, you should do all you can to reduce them or even endeavor to file no claims at all. Why do I bring this issue up in an article about lowering your auto insurance quote? Because the number of claims is the single factor that to the highest degree influences the cost of your insurance premium. Let me give you an example: Let's say you have 5 years of no claim. Most companies will then give you an unbelievable discount of your premium, some of them even 75%! It goes without saying that this is the most powerful way to get cheap insurance.

How can an insurance company do this? Look at an insurance company as a big box of money dropped in by people who gets security in return. What the company does is simply to reallocate the money that is left when the payments for damages are deducted.

People that have many damages and file many claims, must pay a higher premium and thus get a higher car insurance quote.But a safe driver that avoid claims, is rewarded with a lower one. Fair enough?

If you are new to insurance - or even if you have had insurrances for some years, but feel you lack knowledge about it. - I'll advice you to learn the basic auto insurance terminology, before you start to shop around. It can help you, not only to get a low cost insurance but also to make the correct coverage decisions for you. Let's do a little test: Do you need PIP coverage? What does PD coverage mean? What is BI coverage?

Do not accept the first quote you get

If you ask an insurance company for a quote, you can be almost hundred percent sure you'll get a better one from at least one other company. Comprehensive marketing research the recent years has shown that prices for a new six-month policy with comparable coverage can vary greatly between different companies. And we are talking about spreads in rates of at least $500

So, equipped with this knowledge both you and I know that it pays to do a little legwork and shop around for car insurance.

Most insurance companies have a form of questions you must provide answers to in order to get an understanding of your security situation. It is really astonshing, how much the criterias for determining the price can vary between companies. What one company may consider a high risk factor another company may view as a minor risk. So why not take a little time to compare rates for a number of different companies?

The first thing you should do before you start this comparison is to go through your insurance coverages and keep your auto insurance policy on hand. Then go online and start to shop around. The internet is probably the most comprehensive, fastest and easiest way to find a decent vehicle insurance quote.

And what's even more incredible, many insurance companies now offer some great discounts for buying the policy over the web - a discount that come in addition to the no-claim discount described above.

How is this possible? To handle an insurance sale in general cost money for the companies. However, a sale on the internet will cost less money than selling it over the counter. They do not have to involve human resources if you purchase it online. Thus the companies save money on your internet purchase, and a part of this saving is passed on to you as a discount, a significant discount if you buy from the right company.

Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet publisher. He runs the website cheap-used-cars.w-eland.com Terje gives advice and helps people with automotive issues like how to get cheap car insurance and auto owners insurance in general.


MORE RESOURCES:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Insurance institute gives small trucks low marks for side-impact ...
Bizjournals.com, NC - 4 hours ago
Four of five small pickup trucks crash-tested for side-impact protection have received low ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. ...
Video: Small Pickups Panned for Safety AssociatedPress
Small Pickups Falter In Side-Impact Crashes Wall Street Journal
Safety Experts Find Small Pickups Offer Less Side-Impact ... U.S. News Rankings & Reviews
WIS - Fox 28
all 316 news articles


Earthtimes (press release)

MBIA falls amid continued bond insurance concern
Forbes, NY - 4 hours ago
AP 07.25.08, 2:43 PM ET Shares of bond insurer MBIA Inc. slid Friday afternoon amid continued worries over the viability of the greater bond insurance ...
UPDATE 2-Los Angeles sues bond insurers, Wall St banks Reuters
Los Angeles Files Suit Against Insurers Bond Buyer (subscription)
LA sues insurers over futile policy Sydney Morning Herald
CBS 2 - Reuters
all 46 news articles


Aon Urges New York State Insurance Department to Enact ...
FOXBusiness - 3 hours ago
Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management ...
Willis Group Reaffirms Call for Ending Contingent Agreements with ... MarketWatch
Under the microscope: Spitzer-era ban on insurer fees Reuters
all 20 news articles


Fitch Revises Imagine Insurance's Rating Outlook to Negative
MarketWatch - 7 hours ago
CHICAGO, Jul 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fitch Ratings has revised the Rating Outlook on Imagine Insurance Company Limited and Imagine International ...
Fitch Comments on Max Capital's Planned Acquisition of Imagine's ... FOXBusiness
Insurer Max Capital reaches Lloyd's deal Reuters
Max Capital to buy Imagine Lloyd's Business Insurance
RTT News - MarketWatch
all 45 news articles


NC Department of Insurance OKs hike in mobile home rates
Bizjournals.com, NC - 5 hours ago
The state's insurers will be able to increase rates for mobile home insurance, though not as much as they'd hoped, the North Carolina Department of ...
Agreement reached on mobile homeowners insurance WRAL.com
Mobile home insurance to rise 3.2 percent News & Observer
all 15 news articles


Executive Title Insurance Services, Inc. Changes Name to Stewart Title
FOXBusiness - 3 hours ago
Stewart provides title insurance and related information services required for settlement by the real estate and mortgage industries throughout the United ...


AM Best Removes Ratings of GMAC Insurance Group and Its Members ...
MarketWatch - 4 hours ago
The plan contemplated a dividend by GMAC of 100% of the voting interest of GMACI Holdings LLC (GMACIH), the holding company for the insurance operations, ...


Joseph F. Morris to Become President of James River Insurance Company
FOXBusiness - 3 hours ago
Mr. Morris has over twenty-eight years of insurance industry experience and most recently served as President and CEO of The Philadelphia Contributionship, ...
Morris to Take Reins of James River Insurance Co. Insurance Journal
James River Names New Chief Executive-President Trading Markets (press release)
all 5 news articles


GMAC Financial Services' SmartEdge Adds Insurance, Banking to ...
MarketWatch - 5 hours ago
Mortgage education was added in the fall of 2007 and insurance and banking is now rounding out the program. In addition, the program's Web site, www. ...


FOXBusiness

How to Collect Unemployment Insurance Without Being 'Unemployed'
FOXBusiness - 3 hours ago
In the sometimes wacky world of government economic statistics, that will be the case for individuals who receive unemployment insurance under the program ...
Washington events for July 28 - Aug. 1 MarketWatch
all 3 news articles

Insurance - Google News

home | site map
© 2006