bjarvis: (Honda Civic)
bjarvis ([personal profile] bjarvis) wrote2010-05-17 05:57 pm
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Car Insurance

Last week, we received a notice for our semi-annual Ameriprise car insurance premium due in July. It's gone up quite a bit, from $960 semi-annually to $1,223.

Today, I telephoned to reduce our deductibles from $100 to $500, reducing our premium to $1,016.

A few months ago, we checked with State Farm but their quote was $200 higher than Ameriprise. A friend recommended Liberty Mutual: they are $312 more expensive than our current Ameriprise policy, even with a 5% University of Maryland alumnus discount.

I'm going to keep digging around to see what else I might potentially find. What I'd really like is some sort of online insurance brokerage where I could put in all of our data in one shot then have it obtain quotes from various insurance companies. Anyone know of such a facility?

Edit: Progressive's web site quoted us $987. Their comparison rate feature only offered a number from one company, Allstate, and that was $1269 at the low end.

Edit2: Esurance quoted us $906 semi-annually, 21st Century $1,066.71.

Have you tried Insweb?

[identity profile] rlegters.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I tried Insweb one time, and it gave me quotes from 4 or five different companies. (http://www.insweb.com/) The only downside is that every company who provided a quote followed up - persistently - and I was only checking out of curiosity.

Re: Have you tried Insweb?

[identity profile] bjarvis.livejournal.com 2010-05-18 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Just submitted via Insweb... we'll see how it goes. Thanks!