Although there’s nothing anyone can do about the way other’s drive, there are some steps they can take to help improve their chances of getting cheap car insurance in Seattle, Washington. Some of these helpful hints include:

• Driving an older vehicle until you’ve established yourself as a good driver. Many insurance companies penalize young drivers, particularly young men. This fact added to the value of a new vehicle can equal very large insurance costs. For this reason it’s often preferable for young people to drive older vehicles until they’ve proven their ability behind the wheel.

• Not purchasing comprehensive coverage. Many motorists, particularly those not driving very many miles a year, and those driving older cars and trucks don’t need the coverage that a comprehensive policy offers. They should carefully weigh the benefit of the policy versus the cost of the premiums.

• Taking a driving course as you mature. Many older individuals face higher insurance costs because they are perceived as being high risk drivers. When someone in this age range takes a mature driving course they can often experience a drop in their car insurance rates.

Even if you receive a few high quotes when you begin your search for cheap car insurance in Seattle, Washington, don’t be discouraged. Prices can fluctuate from company to company and you are sure to find a rate you can afford that includes all the coverage you need.

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So why aren’t the auto insurance companies writing such coverage, either directly or through used auto dealers? And given the importance of reliable transportation, why isn’t the public demanding such coverage? The answer is that both auto insurers and the public know that such insurance can’t be written for a premium the insured can afford, while still allowing the insurers to stay solvent and make a profit. As a society, we intuitively understand that the costs associated with taking care of every mechanical need of an old automobile, particularly in the absence of regular maintenance, aren’t insurable. Yet we don’t seem to have these same intuitions with respect to health insurance.

If we pull the emotions out of health insurance, which is admittedly hard to do even for this author, and look at health insurance from the economic perspective, there are several insights from auto insurance that can illuminate the design, risk selection, and rating of health insurance.

Auto insurance comes in two forms: the traditional insurance you buy from your agent or direct from an insurance company, and warranties that are purchased from auto manufacturers and dealers. Both are risk transfer and sharing devices and I’ll generically refer to both as insurance. Because auto third-party liability insurance has no equivalent in health insurance, for traditional auto insurance, I’ll examine only collision and comprehensive insurance — insurance covering the vehicle — and not third-party liability insurance.

Bumper to Bumper

The following are some commonly accepted principles from auto insurance:

* Bad maintenance voids certain insurance. If an automobile owner never changes the oil, the auto’s power train warranty is void. In fact, not only does the oil need to be changed, the change needs to be performed by a certified mechanic and documented. Collision insurance doesn’t cover cars purposefully driven over a cliff.

* The best insurance is offered for new models. Bumper-to-bumper warranties are offered only on new cars. As they roll off the assembly line, automobiles have a low and relatively consistent risk profile, satisfying the actuarial test for insurance pricing. Furthermore, auto manufacturers usually wrap at least some coverage into the price of the new auto in order to encourage an ongoing relationship with the owner.

* Limited insurance is offered for old model autos. Increasingly limited insurance is offered for old model autos. The bumper-to-bumper warranty expires, the power train warranty eventually expires, and the amount of collision and comprehensive insurance steadily decreases based on the market value of the auto.

* Certain older autos qualify for additional insurance. Certain older autos can qualify for additional coverage, either in terms of warranties for used autos or increased collision and comprehensive insurance for vintage autos. But such insurance is offered only after a careful inspection of the automobile itself.

* No insurance is offered for normal wear and tear. Wiper blades need replacement, brake pads wear out, and bumpers get dings. These aren’t insurable events. To the extent that a new car dealer will sometimes cover some of these costs, we intuitively understand that we’re “paying for it” in the cost of the automobile and that it’s “not really” insurance.

* Accidents are the only insurable event for the oldest automobiles. Accidents are generally insurable events even for the oldest autos; with few exceptions service work isn’t.

* Insurance doesn’t restore all vehicles to pre-accident condition. Auto insurance is limited. If the damage to the auto at any age exceeds the value of the auto, the insurer then pays only the value of the auto. With the exception of vintage autos, the value assigned to the auto goes down over time. So whereas accidents are insurable at any vehicle age, the amount of the accident insurance is increasingly limited.

* Insurance is priced to the risk. Insurance is priced based on the risk profile of both the automobile and the driver. The auto insurer carefully examines both when setting rates.

* We pay for our own insurance. And with few exceptions, automobile insurance isn’t tax deductible. As a result, the fear of increasing insurance rates due to traffic violations and/or accidents changes our driving behavior and we sometimes select our automobiles based on their insurability.

Each of the above principles is supported by solid actuarial theory. Although most Americans can’t describe the underlying actuarial theories, most everyone understands the above principles of auto insurance at the intuitive level. For sure, as indispensable automobiles are to our lifestyles, there is no loud national movement, accompanied by moral outrage, to change these principles.

Unsustainable Market

In contrast, similar principles are routinely violated in health insurance. To demonstrate this, let’s return to the same suburban mother from the opening paragraph. She’s busy working, driving to and from work, and driving her kids to school and activities. She ends each day exhausted, sitting on the couch with fast food. She’s obese, has a sedentary life, a bad diet, and hasn’t taken the time to go to the doctor in years. After a simple injury doesn’t heal for weeks, she turns up at the emergency room and learns she has type II diabetes. Although type II diabetes is controllable, changing diet and exercise habits and properly tracking her condition takes time and effort and she’s never quite successful in implementing the necessary lifestyle changes.

So the initial emergency room visit is only the first of a long list of health care related to non-controlled diabetes and other problems associated with obesity. Whether she has individual or group insurance, her insurance pays for each episode of care, without singling her out for a premium increase, and without charging her any more cost sharing than is charged to the healthiest and most medically diligent insureds. Her coverage continues until she voluntarily changes insurance companies and/or employers or becomes eligible for Medicare. If she’s covered under group insurance she may not even pay any premium. Her insurance continues unabated, even though the disease was caused by neglecting her body and she maintains her poor lifestyle even after the disease becomes known.

This just wouldn’t happen in auto insurance. This scenario is the auto insurance equivalent of guaranteed access to low-priced auto insurance that takes care of every possible repair, including damage already done, until the day the car falls apart so completely it’s unsalvageable (death) or reaches 200,000 miles (Medicare), regardless of whether she even changes the oil (takes care of herself) in the interim.

As a society, we don’t expect this in private-market auto insurance, but we expect it in private-market health insurance. Furthermore, there’s a chorus of national and state interests, which continuously pushes us further away from the auto insurance principles.

The current private health insurance market isn’t sustainable. Prices have been consistently increasing faster than inflation for decades. Each year, insureds use more health care than ever before and more people have no insurance at all. Most actuaries and other people in the private health insurance market don’t want national health insurance with its bureaucracy and one-size-fits-all benefits. Yet, we’re trying to sustain a private insurance system, which violates the very principles we know are necessary for private insurance markets.

Yes, health insurance involves the sacredness of human life and is therefore different from auto insurance. But if we’re to sustain a private-market solution to health insurance, actuaries need to explain to the larger society, in terms that society understands, the rationale for the following principles:

* As sacred as health care is, it’s still an economic transaction that has to be balanced by individuals and societies, against other economic choices. It can’t be unlimited. Sometimes it will be secondary to other choices. On a given day, for example, the mother in our scenario may value her car more than her health.

* Insurance premiums should be paid by the individual and tied to controllable risk factors. This will provide the best incentive for the control of risk factors.

* Although it’s hard to draw the line between abuse, neglect and ignorance, self-abuse shouldn’t be insured and we need to draw that line somewhere.

* The private market can’t provide unlimited, self-directed health insurance.

* Routine care and ongoing treatments of chronic conditions can be pre-funded, can even be subsidized, but they don’t constitute “insurable events.”

* Insurance can’t be expected to keep every human body in pristine condition. No amount of health care will prevent everyone’s ultimate death.

* Comprehensive, unlimited, non-subsidized private-market coverage isn’t possible for people with severely impaired health.

* The private health market can provide limited non-subsidized health insurance, such as protection from accidents, to even health-impaired individuals.

* Individuals who can afford to do so and who take good care of themselves should be able to “buy up” to better coverage. People have the option of buying up for everything else in life.

Discussion of these principles is lacking from most of the current health insurance debate. If society can intuitively understand how similar principles apply to health insurance, then they should be able understand the principles in the health insurance context. We need to initiate the debate.

This commentary is solely the opinion of its author. It does not express the official policy of the American Academy of Actuaries; nor does it necessarily reflect the opinions of the Academy’s individual officers, members, or staff

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If you own a car don’t move it off the drive without taking out car insurance. You might be lucky and have years of accident free motoring but then again you might not!

Car insurance isn’t meant to be something you make regular use of. Like most insurances the hope is that you will never need to make a claim but if something goes wrong and you are involved in an accident you will certainly live to regret trying to cut corners and save some money through not having car insurance.

If you haven’t go car insurance and are wondering whether or not to get a car insurance quote just take a look at ten good reasons why you should never drive without car insurance again:

1. If you have an accident that is your fault and you don’t have car insurance you could leave a vulnerable victim without the care they need to recover from what is probably the worst ordeal of their life.
2. If you are hit by an uninsured driver and you don’t have car insurance yourself your medical care won’t be covered by any form of personal liability insurance that would have been part of your auto insurance package. Have you had a look at the cost of health care recently!
3. If you are driving without car insurance you are driving illegally.
4. If you don’t have car insurance it can leave you concentrating on who’s following you or who you are passing rather than on the road. Big accident risk.
5. Your inability to fund the one off cost of replacing your car if it was stolen or written off might leave you without transport for a considerable period of time.
6. Driving without car insurance and getting caught could loose you your license.
7. If you are considered high risk it could significantly increase your car insurance premiums. Being caught driving without insurance is likely to push you into the high risk category with most car insurance providers.
8. An unexplained break in your car insurance could impact your no claims discount leaving you with higher car insurance premiums in the future.
9. If you go for a period of time without car insurance you will probably have to lie when you next apply for car insurance. Proven falsifications could result in your car insurance provider revoking insurance cover and not settling a claim.
10. Driving without car insurance could leave you personally liable for significant third party claims in the event of an accident!

If you are still tempted to drive without car insurance just try and imagine how you would feel if you hit a child. Then imagine how much worse you would feel if you then left that child without the money to fund their health care or any form of financial compensation for the devastating impact an accident might have on their life.

Don’t ever drive without car insurance!

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Many people do not believe in spending money on premiums for something that they may not every need and others would not be without it as it gives them peace of mind to know that they have made provision for their young family in case they should need it.

Insurance is not only for families with young children but also for single people. There may be a number of reasons why you would want to have life insurance. If you have anyone financially dependant on you it is wise to make provision for them in case you were no longer there to support them.

Once your family has reached adulthood and you no longer want to keep up the premiums of this policy there are ways of getting rid of the policy. Not many people are aware of the fact that they can make money out of their life policies. There are insurance brokers that will buy your policy from you for more than you would get from the relevant insurance company if you cashed it in for the surrender value. They in turn will sell the policy to various investors who buy up these life policies and then keep them until the person in question has passed away. They can then cash in the policy. Many of these investors make huge profits from these policies.

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Guidelines for filing insurance claims differ with the different types of policies. If you are filing insurance claims for medical insurance, then you should do it within two months of the medical appointment. Before filing insurance claims, do not forget to get the photocopies of all the papers you are sending to the insurance company. If the matter is not settled even after the 45 days of filing claim, contact the insurance company to resolve the issue immediately. You also need to ascertain that the doctor has indicated appropriate diagnosis codes in the receipts. Insurance company may delay the process in absence of these codes.

Call the Agent Immediately

Guidelines for filing insurance claims for other kinds of insurance require that you should thoroughly examine whatever property has been damaged. Then call the insurance provider or the agent so that you can report the damage to the insurance company. Here it is important that you note the name of the person to whom you are talking along with the record of date and time. Do not forget to give him your phone number so that he can contact you immediately as and when required. Keep handy your insurance policy number at the time of reporting. Call a photographer so that the photography or the video recording of the damaged area can be done.

Make Temporary Repairs Only Before Inspection

Do not make any permanent repairs unless the claim adjuster has examined the property and estimated the extent of the damage. However, it is possible to do necessary repair work to prevent the property from being damaged further. For example, you can repair holes in the roof or windows so that the water does not come in and make further damages. You are entitled to get the reimbursement for the amount of money you paid for temporary repairs, so keep a record of it along with all receipts. However, you should keep damaged material so that you can show it to the adjuster as a proof of the loss. It will make it easy for the adjuster to assess the damages to the property. You should put your signature on the statement of proof of loss and ascertain that if any further damage is discovered it will also be added.

CAT Offices

One important question regarding filing insurance claims is what you would do if the office of insurance company itself is damaged and closed. In such circumstances, insurance companies send catastrophe—also known as CAT‑teams in or near damaged areas so that people can contact them. If you are unable to find the CAT office, you can visit the official web site of the insurance company to get the address.

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The biggest difference in managed care insurance policies and the more common group health plans of the past is the freedom to select your own physician or specialist without this decision impacting your coverage. The growth of managed care health insurance policies can be directly attributed to rising medical costs and the attempts to control them. Under a managed care program, a system of health care networks was established. Within the network, there would be standard and customary charges.

A Preferred Provider Organization, or PPO, is a type of managed care insurance plan that addresses this desire to retain some say in the choice of a physician or specialist. The PPO gives you a choice to use their network, but allows you to select a physician of your own choice also. The costs of using the network would be much less and this is the incentive to do so. If you go out of the network, you will pay much higher costs. These would be in the form of higher deductibles and co-insurance payments.

The PPO supports preventive care as do most insurance plans today. However, even with preventive care, there may be a co-payment required. This co-payment would be higher outside the network and much lower inside it. This is the whole thrust of the rate structure in a PPO. It attempts to make the option of seeking all your medical care within the network the most attractive. At the same time, it allows you to exercise your own choice as long as you are willing to pay the extra costs.

When considered a PPO, it is important to understand the size and the location of the network. If the network appears large enough and local enough to meet your medical needs, the PPO might be a very good option. When you have a PPO, however, and are estimating your yearly cost of health insurance, make sure that you remember that the cost may be more than just your yearly premium should you opt to go out of the network for care.

Despite what may sometimes be a higher yearly cost, the PPO is extremely popular. The freedom to choose just the right doctor is important to many people. At the same time, the costs are lower when staying within the network. This double approach makes the PPO a good choice. A PPO is often the best selection for a small business owner or self-employed worker because of its flexibility.

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Typical Homeowners insurance policy has two main sections.

Section 1 includes the property of the insured and Section 2 includes the personal liability coverage that needs to be insured.

At times, lender might require homeowner’s insurance as part of requirement in obtaining a mortgage. While buying home insurance policy one has to keep certain important things in mind. One needs the best level of protection as well as the provisions for valuables like jewelry, computer equipment, kitchen appliances and other possessions. In order to have adequate home insurance coverage one must check with agent or home insurance company beforehand to be sure of the adequate coverage instead of relying on the coverage mandated by the bank or mortgage company. Those levels are for protecting the house only and eventually skip the protection of possessions.

While applying for home insurance the insurance company needs to know about your present occupation, employment history, marital status, date of birth and social security number. The insurer needs to check the credit criminal and insurance history. Insurance claims of past is also checked by the home insurance company. The decision to chose a specific type of homeowner’s policy, deductible and how to pay for the coverage depends upon the homeowner.

There is exception to destructions like flood, earthquake and poor maintenance of house. Home insurance is needed and most lending institutions will require the homeowners to acquire a certain amount of coverage before issuing a loan to purchase property. The lender has a vested interest in property and wants to ensure financial compensation in the event of disaster. Homeowners may suffer a default of loan if they fail to carry the level of coverage needed by lender.

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Generally, term life insurance is taken out to protect your loved ones from debts. For example, if you and your spouse own a home, and you were to suddenly die, your spouse could potentially pay off the mortgage instead of worrying how he or she will make the monthly mortgage payments alone. A term life insurance policy could also enable your spouse to pay off any of your existing credit card or other miscellaneous debts as all of those are passed down to your survivors.

Additionally, if you have children or if your spouse does not work, term life insurance can protect your family’s finances by providing money for college and living expenses if you die before your children are fully-grown. Your survivors can maintain their lifestyle, as they currently know it. To be sure, buying term life insurance gives your family peace of mind knowing they would be financially protected should the unthinkable occur.

Figuring out the Length of Term You Should Purchase

When determining what kind of term life policy you should buy, ask yourself the following questions:
1. What is your income? The rule of thumb is to buy 10 times your annual salary.
2. What are your short-term debts? Credit cards, car payments?
3. What are your long-term debts or financial obligations? For example, do you need money for future college educations?
4. What is the remainder of your mortgage?

The answers to these questions will help you determine how long a term to buy. Whether you buy a 10, 20, or 30-year policy is determined by your total debts, financial needs, and the needs of your dependents. If your children are almost financially independent, then you can purchase a shorter term — unless, of course, your spouse might need more financial support or if there are other relatives who depend on you for money. You can also buy term life insurance that covers you until you reach a certain age, usually 65 or 70. Just keep in mind that equote.com/life-insurance/term-life-insurance-quote.html term life insurance policies expire at a set time and premiums usually increase upon renewal.

Review Annually

It is important to review your policies annually. Many aspects of our lives change thus affecting what kind of insurance we may need. Life changing events occur that would definitely change what kind of term life coverage we may need. Perhaps a birth of a new child may prompt you to increase your term coverage from 20 to 30 years. Perhaps a divorce will prompt you to scale back on your coverage.

Aside from life changing events, you may also review your policy for any other financial protection you may need. Did you start a new business in the past year that would need to be protected financially upon your death? Do you want to leave money to charity or any heirs?

All of these things should be considered each year, as our lives are never consistent. You want to maintain proper coverage without wasting money on too much policy for your family’s needs.

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Before you purchase car insurance, you need to know what factors determine the cost of your auto insurance. Each factor is based on the risk the insurance company has to take to insure you. The higher your risk factor, the more an insurance company will charge you for coverage.

If you live in a more densely populated area you will probably have higher insurance rates than someone living in a less populated area. That’s because there are less accidents in lesser populated areas. People under the age of 25 will also find their auto insurance rates to be higher than those over 25.

What can you do to get the lowest price for your risk factor? Start by comparing quotes from several insurance companies. Insurance companies base their rates on their claims statistics which means one insurance company may charge more than another for the same policy.

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One of the best ways to get quick auto insurance quotes is by going to an insurance quote website. Immediately after you complete their short form, you’ll get 4 to 5 low cost auto insurance quotes while still online. After you have your quotes, you can compare policies and visit their websites for more detailed information.

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You can get a cheap term life insurance policy for a specific period of time, such as 10, 20 or even 30 years. Some Term Life policies are renewable, such as “Annual Renewable” and “Guaranteed Renewable”. This is going to depend on your own personal financial situation and needs.

Basically, you can get cheaper term life insurance by buying less coverage. Naturally, it’s going to cost you more for a $250,000 policy than it will for a $50,000 policy over the same time period. You’ll definitely want to shop around because all life insurance companies are not the same and you will save money by getting several free term life insurance quotes before you decide to buy your policy.

Summary - if you are in need of cheap term life insurance, your best bet is to grab several free quotes, compare the coverage available, review the policy, while checking for hidden exclusions (things that the policy will not cover) that you may not be aware of and after you’ve found one that you’re comfortable with, buy it! Finding and buying a cheap term life insurance policy isn’t rocket science so just get your quotes, compare your options and do it.

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