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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: Cheap Insurance Rates??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.225846.14021@spdcc.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:58:46 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.191114.10872@athena.mit.edu> <PA_HCL.92Nov14062638@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
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- pa_hcl@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu writes:
- >Insurance prices are fixed by the state,
-
- Sort of true - there are some basal rates fixed by the state.
-
- >all insurance companies in Mass will have the same rate
-
- Mostly false - individual companies can offer different things.
- That adjusts the rates a little bit. Plus a lot of things *aren't*
- set by the state and those prices vary CONSIDERABLY! IT is still
- worth shopping around. Only things like comprehensive are set by the
- state. The rest is in the perview of the individual companies (for
- example surcharges depending on where you garage your car).
-
- [Aside - my family lives in Lawrence and according to them
- they HAD to have anti-theft devices installed before they could be
- insured at all! Are they mis-informed? It sounds like a possibility
- given the high car theft rate there (highest in the state, almost
- highest in the nation), but I haven't run across it anywhere else...]
-
- >and none of those rates will be cheap. I think
- >Massachusetts has the 2nd highest insurance rates in the country so you'd
- >be better off insuring the car in Illinois.
-
- False. I pay *less* in MA than I did in New Mexico. New Mexico
- is widely regarded to be checp *if* you are under 30 (it might be
- 32 now), and if you never ever have an accident... My insurance
- almost doubled after an accident, placing it above Massachusetts.
- Certainly, other states are much more expensive than Mass: Pennsylvania,
- California, New York (esp. NYC) all come to mind right away.
-
- >Maybe you can get a temporary
- >registration though I'm not sure if it's available in this state.
-
- No. Not to my knowledge.
-
- But to answer the original poster - the best rates I have
- found thus far in MA are with Commercial Union. Stay *AWAY*
- from Traveler's at all cost. Aetna is in the process of breaking away
- from MA for auto, and State Farm will not insure cars in MA (that
- can also mean cars *driven* in Mass, even visiting) - State Farm also is
- not widely regarded as being scrupulous with claims when they don't
- want to be!
-
- FYI my insurance for a 1988 Mazda 323 with an accident in 1990
- comes to about $850/year. I'm trying to lower it since they claim
- I've only had a license for 6 years (it's really 11)... which may or may
- not be worth asnything under this year's insurance laws. I'm 30, male.
- Other places quoted me rates of ~$1100-$1200 per year with the same info.
-