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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Online Quotes For Car Insurance - Direct Auto Insurance

By Matt Hellstrom

If you're like millions of other people across the country these days, you may be looking for ways to economize and stretch your dollars. If so, you may want to take a look at direct auto insurance as an alternative to using the traditional insurance agency for insuring your car.

Would you trade lower rates for dealing with a website rather than a human being? If you are considering direct auto insurance, that's the question you have to ask yourself. Two factors have combined to create direct auto insurance: no-fault insurance and the Internet. With direct insurance, you deal directly with the insurer rather than through an independent agent. Cutting out the middleman allows direct insurers to offer lower rate. Some provide offices; some are strictly available over the phone or across the Internet.

Direct auto insurance firms know that lower rates are the greatest appeal and it is the reason they operate primarily in jurisdictions with mandatory no-fault car insurance. Claims settlement and administration is much faster and simpler under no-fault bylaws. This allows direct insurance companies to eliminate the middleman, the insurance agent, and lower rates for the end user. Insurance companies under no-fault legislation, always pay their own clients damages (at least in theory). Civil cases are also limited.

In fault-allocation localities, who pays the cost for damages and losses incurred in a traffic accident is determined by a finding of fault. It is a fact that payouts are delayed and civil court cases are many in fault-finding jurisdictions. In these jurisdictions, the job description of the insurance agent includes hand holding and claims expedition. But under no-fault rules, the payout is made simply based on damages incurred. This means an insurance appraiser, rather than an agent, is the key player.

The purpose of going no-fault is to reduce wait times for accident victims. The only kink in the pipeline is at the insurance appraiser stage. No-fault states typically avoid creating a bottleneck in the claims settlement pipeline at the appraiser by instituting state-run or licensed collision centers. For these reasons, insurance companies are willing to run in no fault states exclusively and offer no agents but provide attractive discount rates.

The most difficult area as far as consumer confidence goes for direct auto insurance lies in compensation for physical injuries. Unlike collision centers, the diagnosis of injuries to the human body, particularly central nervous system injuries, is not always final. Over the course of treatment and recovery from severe injuries, you want one go-to person so you don't have to get a new call-center agent up to speed every time you need to get a question answered.

With more and more consumers become aware of options that are available for their insurance dollars, the direct auto insurance is gaining the upper hand. Many such companies now have claim agents that are assigned to the insured and remain on the case until settlement. When considering going with a direct auto insurance firm, check them out carefully - do more than get a rate. You can go to the Insurance Institute of America website and get more info on any direct auto insurance firm. - 21393

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