Tag: Car insurance

Is a Car That’s Been Broken into a Car Insurance Claim?

A client texted me early Monday morning letting me know his car was broken into overnight. The good news was his car wasn’t stolen. What was stolen, though, was his wallet, watch, possibly his passport, a ring, and a few other items. His question was, did his car insurance policy cover this? He has “full” coverage policy on his car which results in a yes and no answer. Let’s look at the reasoning behind the two answers.

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What is Forced Place Insurance?

In July of this year, news agencies announced Wells Fargo forced unwanted car insurance on 500,000 to over 800,000 of its car loan customers, most of whom had valid car insurance. The type of insurance used is referred to as forced place or lenders insurance. The results of this practice were devastating; 274,000 of Wells Fargo’s customers were forced into delinquency and 25,000 vehicles were wrongfully repossessed. Wells Fargo reaped millions in revenue and fees from this practice.

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Flood Coverage and Car Insurance

Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Corpus Christi nearly two weeks ago then moved eastward along the Texas coast where it stalled over Houston for several days before moving on to Louisiana and off to the northeast. A one-thousand-year flood resulted from the trillions of gallons of water that fell along the Texas coast, enough to depress the earth’s crust by 2 centimeters. The estimate on the number of cars destroyed by Harvey ranges between 500,000 and 1,000,000. Let’s examine what kind of car insurance covers your car from flood damage.

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Car Insurance Topics for College Students

There are a couple of car insurance related topics every parent of a college student should discuss with their son or daughter before they head off to school. Both have a financial impact on the family’s car insurance rate. The biggest one is allowing a friend or roommate to drive their car or truck if they take one to school. The other one relates to grades. Let’s review this issue and ways to lower your car insurance rate.

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Converted School Buses and Car Insurance

I received a call a couple of weeks ago from someone who’d been referred to me. The caller needed car insurance for a Blue Bird bus he and his wife were buying. Their plan is to convert it into an RV and live in it as they drive to different parts of the country where they’ll live and work for varying timeframes. The question is what kind of car insurance would they need and who’d write it?

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Can You Really Get Car Insurance for $25 a Month?

My office is in east Dallas one of the melting pot areas of the metroplex. Across the street on both corners are two insurance agencies which advertise car insurance for as little as $25 to $30 a month. You may wonder if it’s a sweetheart deal that no one really gets, so I thought I’d answer the question in this post which wraps up a look at liability oriented car insurance. The answer is yes, no, and what are truly getting or giving up!

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How Does Credit Impact the Cost of Your Insurance?

How would you like to pay less for your home and car insurance? I don’t know of anyone who wants to pay more than they need to! Most people I talk with realize paying less for their insurance is attainable simply by improving your credit, or insurance, score. People with good credit pay less for their insurance than someone with not so good credit.

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When to Drop Full Coverage on Your Car Insurance

I’ve had a couple of conversations over the past two weeks on the topic of when to drop, or not even start with, full coverage car insurance (for more on what is full coverage car insurance vs liability only coverage, see last week’s post https://wiseinsurancegroup.com/full-coverage-vs-liability-car-insurance/). Some believe in dropping full coverage when the vehicle’s loan is paid off while others use the car’s age to make that decision. Let’s look at these two criteria, as well as one more.

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Full Coverage vs Liability Only Car Insurance

Some people comparing car insurance cost will request a liability only policy while others request a quote for full coverage car insurance. Most people have a general idea what they are requesting when asking for one or the other, but they may not understand this can be written several ways. Let’s contrast the two and look at how both can be written.

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New Safety Technology for Older Vehicles

Some friends of ours recently purchased a new Toyota Highlander. It’s equipped with some nice safety technology standard including blind spot and lane departure warning, a backup camera, and automatic breaking so you don’t rear end the person in front of you if they brake unexpectedly. I believe technology like this has the potential to help people be safer drivers and avoid accidents.

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