Types of cars and insurance costs
You will be surprised how the common and obvious driving distraction can increase your car insurance premiums. Your first accident will raise insurance rates by about 22 while the first ticket will boost them 13% higher. It’s a fact. And most drivers know that the most common reason for having...
Old Age and Driving Skills
It’s one of those sad facts of life that ageing is inevitable. Being philosophical about it - it’s going to happen so you might as well celebrate it. The question is how society should celebrate ageing. People who rely on driving to get them around while working, continue to need their vehicles...
ZIP codes and premiums
Often, California has been in the lead when it comes to legislating for fairness. When a service industry is acting in an arbitrary way and damaging the interests of consumers, you can usually rely on Sacramento to do something about it. So, for example, the Insurance Commissioner instructed auto insurance...
If it’s cheap, will it be bad value?
One of the tried-and-tested ways of catching your attention is to announce that something is “cheap”. The trouble with this word is that it changes its meaning. Our experience tells us you get what you pay for. So, if you only pay a low price that usually means you get low quality. Although...
Is it true that men file more insurance claims than women?
We all know that there’s a war between sexes on who are better drivers, men or women? And as men are claiming to be far better at the wheel the statistics are actually on the opposite side. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Report dated 2004 notes men being involved in...
Why are premium notices a source of stress?
Life is never fair. Just when you think you have hit rock bottom and things cannot get any worse, they get worse. You would have thought that a recession would mean premium rates would stay the same. In your dreams, you might have hoped for the rates to fall. After all, there’s massive unemployment...
Insurance for the unemployed
If you don’t work in a company or don’t represent any enterprise, you should not think you don’t need a health insurance. You may find lots of causes not to have one but in reality there is only one problem that can be the cause stopping you from getting an insurance - that is, of course,...
How cheap is your life?
Before we try to answer this question let us define what life insurance is. What is it really? Well, first thing that should be said is that life insurance is meant to solve any financial situations that may occur regarding your everyday existence. Everybody has certain responsibilities. Not only do...
Be a professional businessman
If you are a respectful businessman you won’t let yourself your company down by not having something that is required for good companies to have. You probably do have insurance yourself, whether it is car insurance, health insurance or anything else. You will never let people know you have weak...
Your health knows what it needs
We are used to think we are healthy. It is good when it is also true, but most of the time we just fool ourselves by thinking that we don’t need to see medics and check our health state because we are just fine. Maybe we are that it doesn’t hurt to be hundred percent sure and know that tomorrow’s...