Robert Passmore, director of personal lines for Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, says that some states set limits on
what factors insurers can use in the underwriting process, including marital status and gender.
Not exact matches
He also intends to work with others involved in dealing with epidemics, such as
insurers and government officials, to find out
what they regard as the most important issues and
factor them into his models.
Insurers determine to
what degree each
factor impacts the frequency and amount of payouts and come up with a formula for calculating a premium based on your characteristics.
Insurers use credit scores as one of the key
factors to determine
what is known in their world as an insurance score.
Factors such as your lifestyle and driving habits may help determine
what discounts you qualify for, depending on the
insurer.
In most states,
insurers use your credit score as one of the
factors in determining
what's called your insurance score.
The
insurer will probe you to find out
what happened and any mitigating
factors that can lessen their payout as much as possible.
The following are key
factors that auto
insurers use to determine the price of your auto insurance and
what you can do to keep it as low as possible:
Which
insurers offer Single Pay policies really depends on a variety of
factors - such as which State you are located in, and
What year it is.
In the state of Vermont,
insurers use
what are known as «price
factors» to classify drivers and charge them accordingly.
Year, make and model of a car will frame
what levels of coverage you should get and will also be a major
factor in how an
insurer will determine
what it needs to charge you to hedge against its exposure to risk and the possibility of paying claims.
Just a handful of
factors that help
insurers determine
what you'll pay.
Insurers base their rates on numerous
factors related to health, so
what you pay for your life insurance may not be the same rate a friend your age pays.
Factors such as your lifestyle and driving habits may help determine
what discounts you qualify for, depending on the
insurer.
It pays to know
what factors most
insurers use when they assess you so that over time you can choose to act in ways that reduce your premium.
Like most other life insurance products, the cost of whole life insurance is determined by age, health, lifestyle, and other
factors that contribute to your placement into
what life
insurers call a «rate class».
But you should understand
what factors most auto
insurers consider when evaluating you and developing your premium.
But to understand
what it entitles the policy holder, the pricing
factor and the impact on
insurers, we must delve a bit deeper.
What Factors Do
Insurers Consider?
Keep in mind, however, that your insurance score is not the only
factor that determines your premium (you can ask your
insurer for more details on
what the other
factors are).
Furthermore,
what if other complicating
factors in your life — a low credit score, history of making claims, bad crime statistics in your neighborhood — made
insurers even more skittish about covering you?
Life
insurers consider several different
factors when deciding
what they will charge you for your life insurance policy.