If you agree to pay for a larger portion of your own
damages by raising your deductibles, your car insurance company automatically knows they won't have to pay as much for your claims.
Not exact matches
By reducing your liability coverage for personal injury and property
damage while also
raising your
deductible, you could cut as much as 20 % off your car insurance premium.
Vermont homeowners insurance costs, for example, may be lowered
by:
raising the
deductible (say, from $ 500 to $ 1,000), installing a monitored alarm system (for which most providers offer a discount), or lowering the coverage limits (i.e. the insurance company will pay for a maximum of $ 100,000 in
damages rather than $ 150,000).
Unfortunately,
by raising the
deductible, your home insurance company will no longer pay for small claims, such as broken window repair, leaky pipe repair and minor wind and flood
damage repairs.
It's important to know your particular policy well, because in the past decade, many insurers have begun to
raise deductibles on
damage caused
by «named» storms such as Hurricane Irene.