by lukeking
Just like a lot of individuals around the world right now I’m experiencing a financial crisis. Since the economy has took such a dive, my job has cut everybody’s hours including mine down to four days a week which leaves me with 80percent of my normal income. I doubt that my meager savings will help carry me through until my hours pick up again, so I have to go over my household budget and try to trim out any fat that I see. Since the premiums that I’m paying right now are kind of on the high side, I think that the place that will start first is by searching out a whole bunch of different auto insurance companies and receiving quotes from them all.
Gathering a list of car insurance quotes from different providers used to be a time-consuming ordeal that I didn’t even want to bother with. It’s because of the difficulty and time that it takes to obtain the multiple quotes that I have stayed with the company that I have now despite their ever-increasing rate changes. Because I was lazy and in the habit of it I ended up paying a large amount of extra dollars in premiums that I didn’t need to be paying. There are plenty of car insurance businesses online these days that it makes it easy to obtain multiple quotes and make sure that you have a comprehensive plan for a price that you can afford.
Many of the different insurance websites out there will offer you the use of their searchable database as a potential customer. All it takes is for you to enter some information about yourself and your vehicles and in no time at all you can have several different vehicle insurance quotes from multiple providers all around the country. Many of the companies that you get quotes from our some of the large providers like Geico and Progressive, but there are other companies that you get quotes from which you might not have found out about otherwise. Many times it is surprising, and you might not think so, that these small vehicle insurance businesses can offer competitive rates. The truth is since they don’t have such a high overhead, they are able to provide much more competitive rates which is exactly what I’m after.
...19.07.10
It comes as a fresh blow to drivers on top of rising fuel prices and Government plans to increase tax on insurance premiums.
Even the cheapest quotes for comprehensive cover increased by 11.5 per cent in the three-month period, compared with the previous quarter, to £704, according to the AA’s closely watched British Insurance Premium Index.
It was the biggest increase since the organisation began tracking the trends 16 years ago.
Annual premiums for third party insurance, popular with younger drivers in older, cheaper cars, jumped almost 16 per cent to £1,225.
The dramatic rises come despite marked falls both in road accidents and vehicle crime, according to official figures.
But Edmund King, the AA president, said that statistics were failing to show up an unseen rise in insurance fraud scams.
Earlier this year a High Court judge imposed record damages of almost £400,000 on a ring of criminals who staged accidents to reap the benefit from insurance claims.
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
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