Welcome to Rate and Compare Car Insurance

A practical guide to finding quality protection at an affordable price.

Some Recent Additions and High Points:

Least Expensive To Insure for 2009 The Hyundai Santa Fe

The 15 Least Expensive to Insure Cars for 2009

With Korean cars at 1 – 5



State Insurance Departments’ Auto Rate Samples

State-Seal-Sampler

 


Insurance Complaints by Company for Private Passenger Policies

Customer Satisfaction Statistics

Compiled by the National Association of Insurance Commisioners





Tesla Roadtser, Toyota Prius and a VW Touareg Colision

Mayhem in a Green Era

All Electric Car hit by Hybrid

In the land of green cars

The Least Expensive Cars to Insure

People are always wondering how much a new car they are considering will cost to insure. Ultimately only your insurer can provide the exact answer, though to give you a ballpark idea, Insure.com surveyed the rates for nearly 300 different cars, averaging several quotes for each vehicle.
The winner at $832 the Hyundai Santa Fe

Hybrid Runs Into Electric Car … a first?

This unlikely encounter, made even more so having taken place in Denmark shows how alternate energy cars can do anything conventional cars can.

As described by Steen, reportedly the driver of the Tesla: Traffic was stopped for road construction work, the Prius driver didn’t notice the slow down running into a motorcycle, then the Tetrus pushing [...]

Tips & Insurance Provider Rates From Your State Commissioner

As well as being the definitive source of state insurance regulations, you state insurance commissionaire may the best sources for company and agent licensing information, agent recommendations and fraud alerts.

You may be able to ask your state insurance department specific questions about a provider:

Whether or not the company is [...]

A Rant About Isurance Age and Gender Discrimination

Feel like telling off your insurance agent?, you might get some satisfaction from this rant about about increased costs for being a male, under 25, living away from home.

Comparing Auto Insurance Costs for Hybrid Cars

There are a number of  factors that effect the cost of operating a vehicle,  including registration, insurance, maintenance and resale value.

Hybrid car owners have made a commendable contribution to preserving the environment, with perhaps a secondary motive to save on fuel cost.  The cost fuel saving might end up a break even proposition for some [...]

Insuance Company Complaint Stats

The National Association of Insurance Commisioners maintains a database of insurance company information, including the number of complaints a given company has received.  The graph depicts the relative number of complaints compared to a national average of 1.0.

There’s plenty of other insurance company data including licensing and financial information  available at the NAIC site.

A Review of Auto Insurance Basics

What Do You Get? “Full Coverage” policies usually cover the following:

Property Damage Liability:
Pays damages caused by your car to other people’s property, within the limits set by the policy.
Bodily Injury Liability:
Pays those injured by your car, up to the limits set by the policy.
Medical Payments:
Pays the medical bills of you and usually [...]

California Issues Green Pay-As-You-Drive Regulations

September 3, 2009

California Insurance Commissioner Poizner Issues Final Pay-As-You-Drive Regulations.

Full regulation in printable form may be found here.

These new regulations will enable insurers to offer consumers to choose rates based on actual miles driven as opposed to estimated miles driven. These pay-as-you-drive regulations were originally proposed by Commissioner Poizner in September 2008.

“Pay as you drive [...]

Fraud Perpatrated Against Insurance Companies Up 21%

The National Insurance Crime Bureau reports an overall increase of 21% in “suspicious” insurance claims in the first half of 2009 compared to the first half of 2008. Perhaps an indicator of the increase of desparate acts committed due to increased  economic pressures.

Most reported incidents are up for 2009, with the largest increase in glass [...]