Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Honesty Is The Best Policy For Getting Your Insurance Quote

By Susan Reynolds

Hours can be spent obtaining quotes for car insurance either by the telephone or online. You might be exhausted having to give your details to so many different agents. Shopping around is the most effective way to make sure you are receiving the cheapest price and best coverage for your insurance premium. The most frustration comes when your quoted rate is not what you actually end up paying. This happens all the time when people give the insurance agent false information or choose not to mention certain violations they may have had in the past.

Omitting details when you are searching for insurance quotes will always end in disaster. There is no way for you to receive accurate quotes from the agents if they are not given accurate information from you. That stop sign you ran last summer may not seem important to you but to the insurance agonies that information is important as it will be reflected in your actual policy price.

Various insurance companies will forgive violation sooner than others. You might have believed that one quoted a better price but the truth is that several others would have save you hundreds of dollars with the violations disclosed. To avoid wasting time and spending unnecessary money on insurance premiums it is best to be honest, it is the only way to know what you actually will be paying.

The difference between the times that insurance companies can punish you for a violation can be years. If you do not inform the agents about the violations you will have no idea which insurance companies will forgive you and which ones will punish you. Even after you begin a policy with an insurance agency based on the quoted price they can raise the premium upon discovering your violations. The other insurance companies may not have even charged you for the violation if it was past their time frame for recording. Be honest upfront and you will not have to worry about your policy being raised.

There are some insurance companies that will not tolerate dishonesty at all. It will not matter if the findings raise your policy or not for some, the simple fact you lied will be enough for them to refuse you coverage. Even if you spend hours finding the cheapest quote and even sent the down payment in to start the policy you run the risk of the insurance company coming back with a rejection for coverage after they run your credentials and find that you withheld important information or outright lied. This is considered nondisclosure and all insurance companies have the right to reject you for it.

It is astonishing that some people believe that the insurance companies will not find out about their violations. The insurance companies will always find out, so why go through the trouble of getting quotes at all? You may end up with a policy that is much higher than others and without giving the right information there is no way for you to know that. By being dishonest you not only increase your chances of being denied coverage but also the possibility of wasting hundreds of dollars on a policy that you could have gotten cheaper elsewhere.

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