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Have a Happy and Inexpensive Car Insurance New Year

Written by Michele Wilmonen. Posted in Research Last Updated: 12/30/2012

Switching your old car insurance for inexpensive car insurance is a great way to start the New Year.

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Ring in the New Year with inexpensive car insurance.

Do you have an inexpensive car insurance policy? If you can’t answer that question, it’s time to start taking a look at your coverage. Since we are all so busy with New Year’s resolutions and making our lives better for the next year, now is the perfect time to start working towards a better insurance policy as well.

Clean House to get Inexpensive Car Insurance

To start your New Year’s path to inexpensive car insurance, you need to review your old insurance policy, first. Go through each coverage carefully and decide if you have enough insurance coverage, too much coverage or don’t have enough insurance coverage on your current policy.

For example, if you have a vehicle that is in storage and not being driven during the winter months you don’t need coverages like liability, collision or rental car coverage on it. If you have multiple vehicles in your household, you probably don’t need to have rental car coverage.

Go through your policy, and then talk to your insurance agent about what coverages you actually need or don’t need. Make sure to let them know that you are going to shop around to different companies as well, so they actually work towards giving you a fair assessment to be comparative with the other insurance quotes. Otherwise, they may try to talk you into keeping or purchasing coverages that you don’t actually need.

Shop Around for Inexpensive Car Insurance

It is always a good thing to shop around for new car insurance every now and then. Insurance premiums and discounts are different from one company to another and you never know what insurance company is going to have the better rates.

Insurance companies are also granted permission for rate increases at different times. This means that your insurance company may have been granted permission to raise your premium recently, while another company may not have requested an increase lately. This leaves the possibility that the other company may be able to offer a better rate for the same coverage.

Get Inexpensive Car Insurance by Checking Your Records

Insurance companies are not always right, so don’t assume yours is. They make mistakes on little things like not spelling names correctly, and they make mistakes on big things like increasing your premium for a ticket or car accident that isn’t yours.

Every ticket or accident you are being charged for should be listed on the declarations page of your insurance policy. Make sure that anything you are being charged with is your and that you are being charge correctly.

If you find accidents or tickets that are not yours, or you find not-at-fault accidents listed as at-fault accidents contact your insurance company to make the correction. This is one of the fastest ways to decrease your insurance premium. By making corrections to your policy and making sure that the corrections go back to when you were first charged with them, you may find your inexpensive car insurance with the company you are already with.

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Michele Wilmonen

Michele's first introduction to insurance was working for a major insurance company as a file clerk and a mailroom supervisor in a regional office. She learned insurance directly from underwriters and claims adjusters from questions and also watching them do their job. Since then, she's earned a number of insurance certifications from the Insurance Institute of America and also a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho. She blogs at Car Insurance Guidebook.

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