Insurance costs for cars is increasing across the nation
After falling for two years, car insurance premiums across the country stand again at the resumption of regular quarter-century, an increase.
Several major insurers - including Progressive, Geico, State Farm and Allstate - have begun to impose higher prices, and analysts say that by the end of the year, most other companies will probably follow. Insurers said they were forced to act because the increase in costs for repairs and treatment of injuries.
”The trend is clearly up,’’said Thomas V. Cholnoky, automatic, followed by insurance for Goldman, Sachs
While increasing the size is very different - and some companies are still cutting prices - an increase of at least 4 to 5 percent are not uncommon. And some companies have pushed up prices in some countries over 10 per cent. Analysts and industry leaders indicated that they expect more of the same next year.
In New York and Connecticut, the first signs of change appear. But the situation is less clear in New Jersey, where costs of auto insurance - an average of $ 1150 per year, a car, compared with $ 700 nationally - was the highest in the country. Last year, the legislature has the unusual step of appointing a reduction of 15 percent in prices.
While spending the insurer may growing in New Jersey, as elsewhere, “said industry leaders, it was difficult to predict whether that cost would be offset by legislative changes aimed at reducing fraud and litigation and if not, to what extent political leaders allow price increases.
Consumer advocates say that the increases are not justified. J. Robert Hunter, insurance director of the Consumer Federation of America, said that even if some were rising costs, spending for insurance, all were still down.
American spent an estimated $ 126 billion last year in car insurance, which is mandatory in all countries. It was almost four times what they pay for their houses. There are many other claims on cars and passengers at home, but the rights and responsibilities of hundreds of thousands of dollars are much more common in car crashes, incidents apartments.
Besides price increases, insurers are reducing or eliminating discounts and screening applicants more carefully, so that the highest risk drivers and simply refuse to sell to some. Several companies were also dropped on piracy administrative, with layoffs in some cases.
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