{"id":1038,"date":"2017-05-03T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2017-04-25T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:23:28","slug":"auto-insurance-faux-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/2017\/auto-insurance-faux-pas\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto insurance Faux Pas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it.&nbsp;Auto Insurance can be a bit like playing Chutes and Ladders.&nbsp;A wrong move and you slide into a hole. It&#8217;s the same with auto insurance rates. With auto insurance, a wrong move, or not being aware of some things can increase your premium.<\/p>\n<p>Your insurance company uses something called ISO rating.&nbsp;The Insurance Services Office, or ISO, provides them with a magical algorithm that combines&nbsp; actuarial, statistical, and claims information bottled up in metrics and analytics.&nbsp;These provide an insurance agent with the tools to know based on location and many other pieces of information what to charge.&nbsp;Moving for a job, renting.&nbsp;You might what to ask your insurance agent what towns in the area have the lowest rates.&nbsp;A 2 mile difference in location can make a $4-20 difference in rate per month.&nbsp;Added over time, that could provide a savings.<\/p>\n<p>Making a claim can increase your rates.&nbsp;Some companies have accident forgiveness.&nbsp;Is it a minor claim? You might not want to claim it.&nbsp;Talk to your agent first.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many auto insurance companies follow the Insurance Services Office&#8217;s (ISO) standard of increasing a premium. ISO&rsquo;s surcharge plan for an accident may boost a vehicle&rsquo;s premium. And it may have an increase of&nbsp;20 to 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Another saver that is factored into ISO is how much you drive.&nbsp;With many people working remotely or working at home two to three days a week, you could possibly qualify for &quot;Usage based&quot; auto insurance.&nbsp;By reducing your driving not only do you save gas but you could save on your insurance was well.&nbsp;This program was pioneered in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Select Insurance Agency serves Coppell, TX&nbsp;and is ready to help you with all your insurance needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it.&nbsp;Auto Insurance can be a bit like playing Chutes and Ladders.&nbsp;A wrong move and you slide into a hole. It&#8217;s the same with auto insurance rates. With auto insurance, a wrong move, or not being aware of some things can increase your premium. Your insurance company uses something called ISO rating.&nbsp;The Insurance Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[892,199],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-insurance","tag-coppell-tx","tag-the-select-insurance-agency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurancefordfw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}