The Car Insurance Blog

Here are 8 myths about car insurance that have bothered most car owners. Many owners believe and drive by these fallacies everyday.

1. The color of my car will affect my insurance rate
No. The factors that will affect your insurance rate are your vehicle’s year, make, model, body-type, engine size and driving record.

2. My insurance rate is set by the government
This is not true. The government will not set your insurance rate. Your address, credit score and marital status will determine the premium that you will receive.

3. My credit score will not have any effect on my car insurance rate

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Opting to lease or rent a car will often times prove to be a better decision that actually buying one. Still, car insurance is something that should never be neglected since whether lease, rent or buy, insurance is normally required by most states. As a matter of fact, banks and dealers which finance the cars, make it a requirement for the drivers to get collision and comprehensive insurance coverage. This is to ensure coverage if in case the vehicle is totally lost. In some states, additional coverage aside from comprehensive and collision are sometimes required in accordance to the law.

• Bodily Injury Liability Coverage- when a road accident occurs and you have injured someone, as the indicated policy holder (or any family member, for that matter, who were named on the policy) you are entitled to this kind of insurance policy coverage which will handle all the expenses.
• Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage- this will cover the medical payments, lost wages, and the value of replacement services to the injured policy holder and anybody inside the car when the accident happened. In some cases, the cost of funeral is also covered.
• Property Damaged Liability Coverage- this will pay for the damages you have caused to the other car or cars involved in the accident. Also included are damages done to objects or properties that your car have hit.

Anything that is associated with a teenager is usually expensive like clothes, jewelries, allowances, gadgets and other stuffs. Providing your teenager with an auto insurance coverage is no different. There is a need to keep them safe while on the road especially with the rising incidence of drunk driving accidents. The life of your teenager is of course priceless hence can never compare to the amount you have to pay as premium for their insurance coverage.

Teenagers are considered a high risk group because of the different misdemeanor that they usually get involved with. Helping your teenager to become a responsible driver is very important not only for his safety but to help you lower the premiums on the car insurance coverage. As a parent, you need to lead by example and show your teenager how to be a responsible driver, otherwise he will adopt whatever driving habits he forms while on the road.

Yep, at least there is some good news that is coming out of the gas price hikes that are currently sweeping the country. People ar in fact driving slower on the roads and they are obeying speed limits. This used to be a challenging area for law enforcement for drivers have been known to go over the set speed limits for an infinite number of resons they can conjure up. Driving slowly allows more fuel economy allowing you to maximize the gas you put in your gas tank. People are also choosing not to fill-up rather estimate their consumptions for the week (even by the day) and filling up just a bit over that to allow for emergency stops or drives. If people only folowed the speed limits then their gas guzzlers wouldn’t have consumed too much gas and supply would have lasted a tad bit longer. Drive Safe Guys.

Urban dwellers used to be the types of folks you spend the summer with at farms as you watch the rising of the sun when you wake up early on grandpa’s farm. Studies are now showing that people in urban areas are getting nastier by the minute and auto insurance is one of the areas they happen to get high failing marks for. Farms usually get subsidies when it comes to auto insurance and other vehicles due to their use for agricultural use, but guess what? Some farm owners are claiming farm subsidies for their Porche’s, Saab’s and Jaguars among some of them and they are comitting insurance fraud in the highest respect. These people have relized that living on a farm kinda’ gets you some priviledges in the form of discounts in matters such as insurance for the farm and vehicles and knwoing that, they have started to get the same subsidies for their more speedy type vehicles and Insurance forms are finding out about it. If caught with such mis-declarations, they are subject to insurance fraud which can lead to jailtime.

THIRD PARTY FIRE AND THEFT INSURANCE: This type of policy will pay for the damages caused by your car to other people’s property due to an accident. It also has limited cover for loss or damage to your car against theft or fire only.

However, most policies do not cover damages caused by mechanical, structural or electrical failure. Also damages by depreciation, wear and tear and rust due to old age. Also, policies are meant to cover the repairs due to accidents, fire or theft and not to replace parts that have stopped working due to failure, old age, or some inherent fault.

Most people only read their policy from cover to cover when they need to make a claim. Unfortunately, by this time it’s often too late.
There are three types of car insurance policies that are offered:

COMPREHENSIVE INSURANCE: This type of insurance will cover to the damages to your car and to other people’s property if you have been involved in an accident and the driver is covered by the policy.

THIRD PARTY PROPERTY INSURANCE: This will cover the expenses on the damages to other people’s property caused by the accident. Howerver, it will not pay for the damages inflicted to the car.

Collision insurance only covers accident involving objects. To fully protect your car from all accidents, you should purchase both collision and comprehensive coverage.

8. I’ve never had or been involved in a car accident, so I don’t need automobile insurance.

False. You were lucky enough that you weren’t involve in any accidents, for now. But what if you’ve encountered an accident? You are at great risk of losing everything. Car insurance is the best thing that you can have in the event of an accident occurs. You are also required by law to have a basic form of car insurance, and failing to do so has its repercussions.

Insurance is a contract executed between the insurance provider and the policyholder. Money is exchanged for services to be delivered in events that are stipulated in the contract or policy issued by the insurance provider. Many times, there are misunderstandings that arise especially in filing for claims or services promised during the purchase of the insurance.

The government because of the nature of the insurance industry always has a regulating body that insures both parties, the insurer and the insured, get mutual protection from the law. Regulation of the industry means that every policyholder can be sure that at the time when they need to claim the services stipulated in the insurance policy, the insurance provider can and will deliver the services.