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re: Geico Car insurance just got jacked up 25%

Posted on 10/13/22 at 8:12 pm to
Posted by Dawgirl
Member since Oct 2015
6365 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 8:12 pm to
Ive been with State Farm for a few years and ever since I started working from home due to Covid, I am not driving my car nearly as much and my rates dropped. Before Covid I was paying around $120 a month but since Covid hit my rate for full coverage is $76 per month. Im sure if we go back to the office, my rates will go back up but my employer loves working from home so I dont see that happening anytime soon. Geico and Progressive are rip off insurance companies.
Posted by CarpeDiem
Member since Dec 2011
680 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 8:21 pm to
Still waiting on them to lower insurance premiums like they promised to do in exchange for tort reform.
Posted by H newman
Member since Oct 2021
1958 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 8:58 pm to
Insurance is the biggest scam ever perpetrated against people.
Posted by pwejr88
Red Stick
Member since Apr 2007
37570 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:02 pm to
Geico went up on us also.
Called Insurance Network of Louisiana because I always hear Mascona talk about it. They shopped us around and saved us $800 a year. Same coverage. Progressive.
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11058 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:05 pm to
quote:

Insurance is the biggest scam ever perpetrated against people.


Let’s hear how it’s a scam? Who do you think created the insurance companies in the US? You think it was the government?
Posted by Caraway Rye
Member since Oct 2021
5108 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:08 pm to
quote:

Who do you think created the insurance companies in the US? You think it was the government?


The Social Security Act of 1935

Until then it was a niche product that was not required in any form and almost none of the general population had to deal with
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11058 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:10 pm to
I’ll let you look up when Geico and State Farm were founded Hint: one of them is celebrating its 100th year anniversary
Posted by Tigerbythetale
Las Vegas
Member since Aug 2014
1458 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:11 pm to
Lots of car and boat damage claims due to hurricane Ida
Posted by Caraway Rye
Member since Oct 2021
5108 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:12 pm to
quote:

I’ll let you look up when Geico and State Farm were founded Hint: one of them is celebrating its 100th year anniversary



Yeah

They sold insurance in niche categories that were not required by anyone

They were properly in place to make a windfall in expansion of required insurance

Good job sherlock
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11058 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:18 pm to
Wow you’re a fricking idiot.

I asked

quote:

Who do you think created the insurance companies in the US?


To which you replied the social security act of 1935

State Farm was founded by a farmer in 1922. They have a relatively large amount of policies in force BEFORE 1935

Provide the language in the law that says anything about P&C insurance
Try to keep up
This post was edited on 10/13/22 at 9:22 pm
Posted by rb
Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
5633 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:22 pm to
Geico is laying off people left and right. Premiums weren’t enough to keep up with the rising costs of replacement parts and greasy lawyer litigation.
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11058 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:23 pm to
They are also a Stock company, which puts them at a disadvantage vs the competition
Posted by Caraway Rye
Member since Oct 2021
5108 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:23 pm to
Yeah I get it just fine

Insurance companies have existed all over the globe for hundreds of years

They were not required to be used in the US until the Social Security Act of 1935 and into the early 40s to protect banks

The insurance company you know today was started in 1935

This post was edited on 10/13/22 at 9:24 pm
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11058 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:25 pm to
No, it wasn’t. As I stated, provide the language that you’re referencing
Posted by Paco_taco
Dallas, Tx
Member since Apr 2012
1491 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:35 pm to
Mine went up 35%. Two young drivers with 4 cars on the policy. No changes to policy and it went from 2300 to 3200 every 6 months.
Posted by Caraway Rye
Member since Oct 2021
5108 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:38 pm to
quote:

No, it wasn’t. As I stated, provide the language that you’re referencing



From the SSA itself

quote:

This article outlines major trends
since 1935, when the Social Security
Act became law, i n insurance and annuities on United States lives underwritten by some 350 life insurance
companies of both the United States
and Canada.


https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v7n12/v7n12p14.pdf


This is the start of it all
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11058 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:42 pm to
That has absolutely nothing to do with P&C insurance.
Posted by Caraway Rye
Member since Oct 2021
5108 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:54 pm to
quote:

That has absolutely nothing to do with P&C insurance.



What does P&C insurance have anything to do with required car insurance or your insuniation that the US government has nothing to do with insurance
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11058 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 9:59 pm to
I’m guessing you don’t understand that auto insurance falls under P&C

The auto insurance requirement is a state law, not a federal law. The SS act of 1935 has nothing to do with P&C insurance or state requirements. I didn’t insinuate the government isn’t involved in regulating the industry, I stated a fact that the company was founded 13 years before by an individual and the SS act had nothing to do with it.
This post was edited on 10/13/22 at 10:00 pm
Posted by Tigerswillprevail
Member since Nov 2011
2965 posts
Posted on 10/13/22 at 10:07 pm to
I have state farm, auto and home. I shopped pricing a few years back, surprisingly they were by far the cheapest. The most surprising was the hurricane damage rep. Came and evaluated, found shite that I missed, wrote a check that day.

Not typical that I have read but have no issues with them.
This post was edited on 10/13/22 at 10:10 pm
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