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Web Aided Auto Insurance Shopping Grows
Compare.com, a comparison auto insurance website in the United States, has added Amica Mutual so it will be providing quotes in California and Texas starting this month. Continue reading
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Tagged Amica, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, Ken Zino
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The Un-luck of the Irish – St. Patrick’s Day Drunks
St. Patrick’s Day – when it’s said everyone is Celtic – is sometimes heartbreaking because of drunk drivers behind the wheel. NHTSA says that during St. Patrick’s Day from 2009 to 2013, there were a total of 276 lives needlessly lost in drunk-driving crashes. Continue reading
California Only State Where Auto Insurance Rates Fell
Nevertheless, California auto insurance companies earn higher profits than the national average, and the market ranks fifth most competitive in the nation using the standard applied by the U.S. Department of Justice. Continue reading
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Tagged autoinformed, autoinformed.com, Ken Zino, proposition 103
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Aluminum Ford F-150 Top IIHS Safety Pick, but Criticized, not for the First Time on Repair Costs, which could be Premature
However, IIHS said the F-150 extended cab only turned in a good performance in four of five assessments. The problem is the small overlap front test just a marginal rating for occupant protection in a small overlap front crash. The results are the first ratings for large pickups in a group the Institute is evaluating this year. Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum repair costs, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, iihs, Ken Zino
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Rising Auto Insurance Rates have People Shopping, but Not Necessarily Switching
Increases in Auto Insurance rates by an average of 2.1% nationwide in 2014, following an increase of 2.5% in 2013 have many customers shopping for a new insurer, but few are actually switching insurers. Continue reading
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Telematics Enable Usage Based Insurance and Privacy Risks
A Celant report on insurance developments also includes results of a survey on how receptive customers would be to real time feedback on their driving. How would you like to receive this message while driving: Your current driving style suggests that you have a one in three chance of having a fatal or very serious accident during the next year. Continue reading
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Tagged autoinformed, autoinformed.com, Ken Zino, privacy, telematics, usage based insurance, wunelli
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Honda heads list of Most Popular Stolen Vehicles
The Nissan Altima, Ford Fusion, F-Series pickup truck, Toyota Corolla, and Chevrolet Impala headed the list of the most oft stolen 2013 model-year vehicles. Continue reading
Telematics are ‘Driving’ Growth in Usage Based Insurance
So called OBD-II based telematics – aka onboard diagnostics – are rudimentary and controversial but they have the potential to reshape the auto insurance market to reward good or infrequent low-risk drivers while charging other, more risk exposed users to higher fees Continue reading
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Tagged auto insurance, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, Ken Zino, telematics
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Consumers Will Commit Fraud for Cheaper Car Insurance
However, in the bold new world of snooping, two thirds (64%) of people are comfortable with a telematics type of product that would share information about the events leading to a traffic accident, in order to help determine which driver was at fault. Continue reading
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Waterlogged Flood Cars – Tide Rising as Titles Falsified
Buyer beware and nowhere does that apply more than used flood cars that have been damaged by water that causes insurmountable problems after the vehicle is returned – often illegally – to service. Nearly two-thirds of these flood damaged cars are on the road in ten states – Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Louisiana, Illinois, New York, Florida, Mississippi and Virginia. However, as the research shows, crooks are moving flood cars to any state where unfortunately unknowing consumers will buy them. Continue reading
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Tagged autoinformed, autoinformed.com, carfax, flood cars, hurricane sandy, Ken Zino
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Auto Thefts Rise in the Summer Months
Every 44 seconds a motor vehicle is stolen in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NHTSA data also show that only 52% of stolen vehicles are recovered. Continue reading
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Automaker Defense of Hands-Free Devices Hooey AAA Says
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety is taking on the oft-used automaker defense their profitable selling of hands-free electronic devices that are expanding exponentially in new cars. The latest data show that dangerous mental distractions exist even when drivers “keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road.” Continue reading
Second Alabama Cop to Serve Time for I-65 Motorist Thefts
A second Alabama police officer has been sentenced to serve time because of his thefts from motorists on I-65. Former Fort Deposit police officer Carlos Tyson Bennett, 37, was sentenced to 37 months in prison, two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. Bennett stole money from motorists during traffic stops with another ex Fort Deposit cop, Jessie Alan Fuller, on Interstate 65 in 2009. Continue reading
U.S. Motorcycle Thefts Decrease to One Every 11 Minutes
The National Insurance Crime Bureau today said that motorcycle thefts were down 6% in 2011 from their 2010 total. This means 46,667 motorcycles reported stolen in 2011 compared with 49,791 in 2010. The theft rate, which sounds low, actually averages to one motorcycle theft every 11 minutes. Continue reading
Auto Theft UK Style – $473 Million Unrecovered in 2011 Alone
The latest auto theft numbers in Great Britain are just as grim as in the U.S. In 2011, 65,000 vehicles were taken from their owners in the UK and never recovered for losses of £300 million or $473 million. More than two thirds (71%) of stolen cars disappear, never to be seen again. As they are stripped for either parts or shipped out of the country, according to swiftcover.com. Not surprisingly, more expensive stolen cars are more likely to disappear without a trace. Continue reading
