Car insurance basics: Coverages that may be included in your auto insurance

15-09-2011 by KiTac

Your car insurance policy may include the coverages below. Take note that the coverages are priced separately:

Personal Injury Protection

PIP takes care of the medical expenses of the driver and any passenger of the car covered by the auto insurance policy. The coverage may extend to medical payments, funeral costs, or even lost wages.

Bodily Injury Liability

This covers for injuries that you, the policy holder, ma cause to others. It may also extend to your family members while driving another car with the permission of the owner. It is critical that you have a good liability coverage since you might be sued for a large sum of money when you cause injury to another person thru a serious road mishap.

Property Damage coverage

This will take care of the costs if you or a driver with your permission cause damage to another car or property. This may include lamp posts, fences, buildings, poles, or other structures that you damage or destroy during an accident.

Collision

This will cover the cost you may incur for repair your vehicle after a collision with another vehicle, an object, or when you flip it over.

Comprehensive

This coverage will take care of your cost or losses due to fire, missiles, explosions, falling objects, hail, flood, earthquake, vandalism, animals, riots, or theft.

Coverage for under-insured motorist

This will reimburse your costs if you or a designated driver is hit by an insured motorist r is a victim of hit and run. This will be the coverage that will be tapped if you encounter a motorists who does not have enough coverage to cover for your loss and costs.

Avoiding car insurance problems and auto theft

16-01-2011 by KiTac

What else can go wrong aside from finding out that you are now part of the auto theft statistics? Another bad news is finding out that you will not be fully covered by your auto insurance.

In the United States, a car theft occurs twice every single minute. That translates to around $6 billion annually. You might be the victim of a joy rider or you can be burned by a professional who chops and ships your car piece by piece overseas.

Here are some tips how you can avoid car theft and problems with your car insurance:

Most of the time, manufacturer installed car theft protection is not enough. Experienced thieves can disable these systems easily. If you want your car protected, get an aftermarket anti-theft system which is more sophisticated.

Consider car theft protection even if you are driving an old car. Your old car may not be that flashy compared to the younger stallions on the road but some thieves like old cars because there is a higher demand for their parts.

Act immediately if you have experienced car theft. Report the incident immediately and do it while you are still at the scene of the crime. Keep a copy of all the important information about your car in your wallet. You will need the color and make of the vehicle, plate number, and VIN.

Check your insurance coverage and make sure up to what extent you are protected. Also check if you will get roadside assistance.

Have a common sense when on the road. The simples methods are the best protections against car theft. Always lock your car and park it on a well-lit are. Also avoid parking near exits which makes vehicles more prone to theft.

Tips to keep our Auto Insurance Rates down

10-06-2010 by KiTac

p74 car-insuranceDo you get that feeling that what you will see is bad news every time you get a mail from your auto insurance company? Don’t feel bad, you are not alone since car owners around the globe also share the problem of hundreds of dollars in fees for their car insurance every.

We want to share some tips so you can lower the rate of your car insurance.

Don’t be in a hurry

When on the road, you need to be a safe driver and make sure you take enough time when traveling from one location to another. This is stating the obvious but everyone needs to be reminded that getting a speeding ticket or being at fault for a road mishap does not help at all.

Don’t use your cellphone while driving. If you need to really use your phone or have to check out your GPS, pull over and do the things that you need to do. It will avoid accidents and save lives.

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How To Drive In The Rain: 2

04-04-2010 by Heather

2750711244_fde9724ebbNow that we have talked a little bit about allowing more traveling time whenever it is raining and practicing extreme caution, we now want to make sure that you understand that you do need to brake a heck of a lot sooner than you normally would whenever you are driving in the rain.

The reason for this is because your brakes are going to be soaking wet and they could actually slip, which is one of the major reasons why you want to make sure that you keep quite a bit of distance between you and the car in front of you.

This can actually save your life!  You also want to make sure that you pay attention to your surroundings and make sure that you keep your high beams on!

How To Drive In The Rain: 1

02-04-2010 by Heather

Driving at night in the rain 2When it comes to driving in the rain, it can be extremely difficult, especially if you are not used to heavy, heavy downpour of rain.  Well, in this blog, we are certainly going to make sure that you know exactly how to drive in the rain and how to make sure that you and everyone in your car is safe whenever it is raining.

One of the first things that you need to realize is the fact that there are many different things to watch out for whenever you are driving in the rain.  One of them is because everything is a little bit slicker in the rain, so you have to make sure that you are extremely careful.

What this means is that you want to definitely allow more travel time between you and the distance that you are traveling.

7 Tips for Cheaper Insurance: 2

16-03-2010 by Heather

garage24. Comprehensive storage.

If you have to place your car in storage for a while, you can save money that way. For that matter, even keeping your car in a garage can provide savings. You are, after all, keeping it safe from accidents, theft, and so on.

5. Checking your mileage.

Always double check your mileage. You can get savings if you meet the “miles to work” limit. This all comes down to knowing for certain how many miles you have to drive to work — and your vehicle’s classification.

6. Group discounts.

Group discounts are great. They can occur for many types of organizations, even fraternities and sororities.

7. Lower coverages.

If you can get away with lower amounts of coverage on things like comprehensive, liability, collision, and medical payments, you can save a lot.

7 Tips for Cheaper Insurance: 1

14-03-2010 by Heather

anti theftThere are many ways to save on your car insurance. Some of them come as quite a surprise. We are going to look at seven helpful tips.

1. Anti theft devices.

Keeping your car safe yourself makes car insurance companies happy. In some cases, your car has them. Others can be purchased on your own. Either way, they make for savings.

2. Multiple car discounts.

Having more than one car on the same policy is a big money saver. Two heads are better than one and two (or more) cars can be cheaper than one.

3. Yearly policies.

With a yearly insurance policy, your rate cannot change for an entire year. With six month policies, they are subject to change, of course, every six months.

What Is Pay As You Go Insurance? 2

22-02-2010 by Heather

Odometer 2With Pay As You Drive car insurance policies, what basically happens is that the premiums you pay are directly linked to how many miles you put on your vehicle.

Say, for instance, that you have a third car, which is generally only used when your two primary vehicles are not available. You naturally want this vehicle to be insured, yet it really rather sucks that you have to pay premiums when you may only have to drive it for a few days every few weeks or months. A Pay As You Drive policy could be ideal for this.

These policies can save a lot of money in part because the more you drive, the riskier you are in the eyes of a car insurance company; there is more of a chance that you could get into an accident.

What Is Pay As You Go Insurance?

21-02-2010 by Heather

odometer 1Car insurance seems like a constantly evolving business — because, honestly, it is. Recently, especially, we have seen an advent of paperless car insurance policies, designed not only to offer convenient coverage but also to be environmentally friendly.

But there are different types of car insurance as well. For instance, many people are turning to Pay As You Go policies. This is also known as a Pay As You Drive policy. Policies of this nature are believed to be beneficial in many ways. They are thought to cut down on the amount of gas you use as well as the amount of pollution you create, and they are believed to save money.

In the following post, we are going to discuss some of the fundamentals of Pay As You Drive car insurance, as well as why it might be the right choice for you.

Elderly Car Insurance — What Is It: 2

13-02-2010 by Heather

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Now that we have talked a little bit about how safe the elderly people are when they are behind the wheel, let’s talk about some of the discounts that they get.  To be perfectly honest, there are a ton of different companies that offer up senior discounts and car insurance companies are no different.

All the senior has to do is make sure that they ask for the senior discount and most of the time, the car insurance company will give it to them.  Car insurance companies want the elderly business, as they are most of the time the less risky choice than someone that is younger.

That is one of the main reasons why there are so many discounts that these particular drivers can take advantage of.