The main reason for which companies are considering hiking average car insurance rates for the next year is that they are facing the problems with hospitalization costs incurred by drivers. Besides, new cars with advanced technology have become expensive to replace or repair and these have added to claims settlement costs meaning thereby that the payouts were high and funds depleted.
Apart from increasing operating costs and claims settlements, one more problem faced by auto insurance firms is decline in bond yields. Insurers invest funds in bonds with the hope of realizing 4 to 6% annual returns every year. But with the collapse of the market in 2008, the interest rates have dropped and so has the yield that was expected.
Premier auto insurance providers like GEICO have reported losses during the first nine months of the year 2016 on account of settlement of claims arising out of car accidents and resulting claims because of bad weather conditions. One can conclude that depletion of funds for other insurers may be much greater than GEICO. The result is a pending premium hike.
Most of the companies are about to hike car insurance rates by about 12% to 19% for the next financial year. The impact of increase in premium rates will vary from state to state but its effect will be felt by drivers across the United States as they need to be ready to shell out more money from their pockets.
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