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Automobile deaths has been declining for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_v
by annoyingnoob 6y ago
Automobile deaths has been declining for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
Cars are safer than ever. https://one.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/timeline/index.html https://one.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/timeline/index.html
The folks with those fancy cars are paying into the system too, insurance is about pooling after all.
It seems you have a point about bodily injury claims. https://www.insurance-research.org/sites/default/files/downloads/IRC_ClosedClaimReleaseFINAL.pdf https://www.insurance-research.org/sites/default/files/downl...
However, it looks like that is mostly due to more lawyers being involved in bodily injury claims. More lawyers involved points to a failure with insurance company's ability to properly adjudicate claims. When insurance is only about profits and finding tools to further squeeze your existing clients no one benefits. Insurance companies do not need more ways to rate me, they just need to do the job they get paid to do.
- sidewndr46 6y agoI don't really understand the point your are trying to make? You state that "insurance is about pooling" then correctly observe the dollar amount they charge you is just some sort of risk rating assigned to the individual. Also if you ever have a large claim paid, you'll quickly discover it isn't about pooling at all. Every insurer will simple decline to quote you or simply quote you some insane price. Even without accidents I once got a quote that was obviously a response of "please do not purchase this policy" when I tried to get basic liability insurance.