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After a repair after a fall can be a confusing and lengthy. They typically offers different body shops, please contact your insurance company to require a rental car, you get to the car body, make sure in the

On the progress of repairs, you can expect the car will be fixed, and then monitor the work and drop-off of the arrivals. And that’s when everything goes well.

Progressive is the first in the industry, the responsibility of all claims repair of motor vehicles and offer customers an easy way for their cars after a crash fixes.

Today, in 17 markets in the USA, Progressive customers and other interested parties to a claim Progressive have the choice to manage the repair process themselves or representatives have the right and progressive hand-selected Auto Body Repair Shops manage on their behalf. Progressive isolation facilities closest to the areas where its customers are concentrated for the new standard of service available to as many as possible. One customer was so satisfied with Progressive treated as she thanked repairs to a representative of CSC in Jacksonville, Florida with arms.

“We do not believe that whenever hugs,” said Passell. “But the process is always rave evaluations, and we believe that the future of auto insurance.”

Progressive tested the concept in seven markets announced before their national output on 8 April 2003. The test sites containing Cleveland, OH, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA, Virginia Beach, VA, Orlando, FL, New Orleans, LA, and Phoenix (Tempe), AZ.

During the year 2003 opened Progressive organizations in Columbus, Ohio, two in Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC, Richmond, VA, Tampa and Jacksonville, FL, Dallas, TX, two in Houston, TX, Indianapolis, IN and Detroit, MI. Progressive plans to continue rolling our other sites during the year 2004.

In addition to the centres new requirements, “One-Stop-processing applications for repair, Progressive operates more than 350 offices in all claims by 50 states. Although the branches are not equipped for” One-Stop service, representatives of businesses, continue to personally handle each customer, the statement from beginning to end and in most states to offer them a choice between the vehicle repaired in a shop, where the work is guaranteed .

Two studies published recently on the development of automobile insurance rates, show large differences in the cost of coverage across the nation. At first glance, they seem to also show a wide divergence in their conclusions. It turned out that even if they are not exactly compare apples with oranges, it will examine the different criteria for determining what is done automatically insurance costs.

For example, the latest analysis of Rochester, Wis. consulting firms Runzheimer International, shows that the lowest annual premium of $ 978, one finds in Nashville, Tenn..

However, a recent report by the Insurance Information Institute (III) indicates that the average cost for auto insurance for 2004 the USA is $ 871, $ 29 more than the previous year, the average $ 17 and lowest Runzheimer lowest as annual premium.

The difference is that Runzheimer’s based on the study Premium rates for male and female drivers on a minimum age of proper conduct and records include comprehensive coverage, collisions, injuries, property damage and uninsured drivers coverage, and III focuses on the analysis Actual that people pay for insurance across the country. And they pay what is not necessarily the width of the scope of Runzheimer on the basis of their study.

“I’m looking, what people really buy”, III, chief economist, Robert Hartwig said. His characters do not reflect the average premium, given that the average unit responsibility and heritage through different parts.

“Many people do not buy everything,” said Hartwig. He noted that in regions of the country, which are distinguished by their high cost of automobile insurance, as Detroit, many people, if not It is the most buy less coverage is available.

According to Runzheimer, Detroit was the most expensive city in the USA for auto insurance during the last year. The average premium for All-inclusive coverage was $ 4945 per year for a mid-sized sedan within a derivative of 50 miles radius of the city.

The good news is that the smallest country with the rate increases during the year 2004, when he saw during recent years has III. The cost of auto insurance is an increase of 3.5 per cent in 2004, the smallest increase in four years.

Prices in Germany rose an average 7.8 per cent in 2003 compared to 8.8 percent in 2002. The trend of smaller size is increased activated by a decrease in the number of car accidents, and crackdowns on fraud and abuse. However, rising costs of medical care, auto repair massive jury awards and continue to cause problems.

“A reduction in car accidents, in conjunction with an improved financial performance of insurers, are contributing to a sharp moderation of the costs of automobile insurance in 2004,” said Hartwig. “Some riders are still see para decreases Especially those with the best records of conduct. ”

Still, motorists in some countries, such as Florida, Massachusetts and New York can expect at costs too high due to remain higher automobile theft and fraud, the III

Runzheimer, the study also shows that conditions of detention in different parts of the country to influence how much consumers actually pay.

“There is really no secret here,” said David Freidlen, Runzheimer director of product development and vehicle cost expert. “Insurance Company based on the rate of claims records. Fewer accidents, thefts of vehicles and rules on conflict of bills to repair damage to Nashville against Detroit to a significant decline in annual insurance premiums .

Although fewer claims, those that cost more cases, “said Hartwig.” It costs more to repair cars, especially after accidents Sport Utility Vehicles. ”

The increased costs of hospitalization and medication, the state provisions that permit abuse of medical treatments and associated legal costs are lower than the fight against the rate of accidents, Hartwig added. He felt insurer pays between $ 15 billion and 20 billion dollars in rights to health care in 2004.

Besides the medical costs and higher repair bills higher jury awards in liability cases Motorsport further increase pressure on auto insurance rates.

“For liability issues are much more important than people realize,” Hartwig noted. “Over 60 percent of premium automobiles in 2003, more than $ 80 billion have been designed to cover the liability. Given that we take a look in 2004 and 2005, we see this trend.”

Car theft is another important factor that price. Preliminary data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Uniform Crime Report shows the number of car thefts rose by 0.9 per cent during the first half of 2003, the last period for which data are available. The result is an increase of 1.4 per cent in auto theft in 2002, 5.9 per cent in 2001 and 0.7 per cent in 2000. It is estimated that 1.25 million car theft have been during the year 2002.

The west and south experienced the highest number of thefts in the nation, with rates lowest in the Middle East and north-west. The main increases were stolen car in medium cities and suburbs.

The ring mold bath in homelessness by Colleen McGaw’s Mini Cooper brands such as Hurricane Katrina’s water level rose within the red sports coupe.

“It was this form, this grossness everywhere,” McGaw said, recalling found, as they automobiles, to present the conclusion of their college, three months after the storm in his New Orleans neighborhood. “I cried. Lame may seem strange, but I cried. I wanted a car, since I was a child. ”

Two years later, McGaw was shocked to learn by The Associated Press that his beloved Mini turned 3600 miles (5800 km) south of Bolivia. Its new owners - stuck to a complete overhaul of U.S. $ 23,000 (€ 15,700) and counting - is feeling their pain.

Tens of thousands of cars were damaged or destroyed by Katrina, much more under water of New Orleans in a broth corroded by salt water and mud. USA has warned Americans officials keep buying the car were drowned.

But many “cars” Katrina “were shipped overseas, which are often sold via the Internet auction rescue now self-globalisation of the recycling industry.

While the cars used to be auctioned mostly local scrap merchants and serious gearbox, understood the risks related to trade. But over the past five years, an explosion in online distribution has attracted buyers from around the world. It is a “Wild West” market “of the dream car in dirty rockbottom prices, says US-Auto-insurance analyst Brian Sullivan.

“Information is scarce, and you have to wise and know what you’re doing,” he said.

Katrina suspected car - with its wiring nervous, sand in tears and witness mildewed puent - are caught in a number of countries, but Bolivia has become a goal. A local authority considers the environment, 10000 or more flooded cars to the USA can be completed within the nation, import regime in bulk, a smuggler flourishing “Economic Affairs and an insatiable thirst for ‘approval of wheels.

Hurricane relics are part of a plethora of opportunity rapidly imports of South America’s poorest country. Betankt of money to house migrants abroad, the number of vehicles in Bolivia, a few paved streets should double in the next five years.

McGaw’s Mini is still a long way since their entry into the traffic jam.

Wagons south containers on a vessel imported by the Chilean port of Iquique and trucked over the mountains of this city of the valley of the Andes, the Cup is now on a hydraulic lift, gestrippt on its chassis and surrounded by rusty in life .

The new owner - concerned that advertising reduced the car resale value and perhaps smarting Automobile grief - rejected by its mechanics Ramiro Sanchez, to identify or interview.

“It is totally demoralized, but it does not just give, they want to be,” said Sanchez.

The mini-odyssey began, as the McGaw family fled to New Orleans August 28, 2005, the day before landing Katrina.

“I just start packing things to chance - a cocktail dress, shorts of the 7th class,” said McGaw, has been completed since his law studies and head of the Orleans Parish District Court, I do not think it was too Flood. ”

McGaw did in 2004 “red peppers” Mini in a rear-mounted homeless and the city with their parents.

The next morning, Lake Pontchartrain’s flood left by the 17th Street Canal dam, flooding the Lakeview neighborhood in eight feet (2.4 meters) of water and completely submerging the Mini.

If McGaw, finally, saw his car again three months later, it was dry, but covered with salt and mud. A beer can floating had broken through the windows.

The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) charged that the No. 4 U.S. auto insurers, rating methods and underwriting guidelines in 44 countries, rates of tie directly to education and occupation.

Geico, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (CRM), insurance and investment company billionaire Warren Buffett, taxes rejected. He called “an offensive attempt to link fundamentally fair and payment practices of its industry invidious discrimination.”

The insurer offers auto insurance for more than 6 million policyholders and insures more than 10 million vehicles.

Robert Hunter, CFA, director of insurance in Texas and a former commissioner sought assurances Geico’s rate setting a policy of “pockets of subscription main tower,” shortchange thousands of drivers.

In accordance with the guidelines Geico, he said, New Orleans factory workers, without paying high fees, $ 2636 for insurance, 91 per cent over $ 1382, knows that a worker with a cycle ’studies, to pay for the same vehicle and the site.

“It is clearly an impact on minorities and low-income people,” said Hunter in an interview. “If this is not violative of the law, it must also be. It seems very unfair. ”

In a March 14 letter from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, CFA, said Geico the use of education to determine rates statute allows to circumvent prohibitions on the use of income as a guideline for pricing, because it is racially discriminatory.

“What is very worrisome is that Geico appears that these guidelines, de facto, the method of notation,” he said. “Geico method is wrong, because not everyone has the chance, or it can afford to take a year to four College final.

The CFA has asked the NAIC to intervene before practice, he said another car insurers are to be used at the beginning, it is more widespread.

Geico, replied in a letter on March 17 on the NAIC, said the CFA are not properly position, a public policy and legal and are a “Full Frontal attack” on competition and consumers’ freedom of choice .

Take heart, moviegoer - there is quite reasonable for this statement of recognition buzz curious, you can, while “Deja Vu”. After all, it was the scene of Tony Scott ( “Enemy Of The State”), which he overfiltered stylish camera and scenes of car accident gratuitously.

If life was like a film by Scott, auto insurance would cost $ 10000 per month and each day we should all chiropractic for sexily peering over our shoulders as runway.

The does not mean that Scott - the youngest brother of “Gladiator” director Ridley - is a complete hack, his method styleforward simply the lack of soul. It is cold, Robot vagueness “Déjà Vu,” a deviation, so deeply indifferent Romantic Thriller, Denzel Washington in time travel, which seems a plasma television to save the girl of his dreams.

In the wake of a ferry terrible bomb attack in New Orleans, ATF agent Doug Carlin (Washington), on the scene.

Under the collection of evidence, Carlin, on the corpse of a Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton from “Idlewild”), a beautiful murder victim whose east Killer may be the same jerkwater vigilante (James Caviezel), set staged the bombing. No matter how inexplicable message ( “U save”) Claire’s gribouillé in the kitchen. If Carlin find their Killer, it would be his pocket Timothy McVeigh.

And here he is, where screenwriters Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio ( “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”) draw our disbelief.

Valued for its disturbing sleuthing skills, Carlin is cordially invited to an FBI task force, has access to the revolutionary technology: a satellite system the most advanced listening allows the user to peer-to-behind every closed door, anywhere on the The planet, even if four days and six hours after the act.

Carlin is not a doll, he quickly suspected that Snow White is actually a two-way rear windows in time. Watching Claire in the hours before his assassination, he finds a way to come into contact with him. The next step is obvious: Carlin and his FBI counterpart (Val Kilmer) sends it back in time to prevent their murder, and that hundreds of people around the ferry.

A semi-hunting scene treasure satisfactorily above all - in which the tail Carlin a phantom image of the perp and destroyed much of New Orleans’ car in the process - but the pace is something deadened by the fact that Much of the centre act alone, sitting near Carlin on peak surveillance footage (even if it voyeuristische, sci-fi-footage).

A 90-page Consumer Federation of America study, published this morning, concludes that California has the most consumers’ auto insurance regulator of the nation. In the report, it notes that the provisions of Proposition 103 - 1988 voters in California - led to the creation of a regulatory system benefits that consumers and insurers as well.

“Prop. 103 establishes a system of higher profits, lower rate increases, faster and lower the quota allotted to each driver of the other State,” said J. Robert Hunter, director of CFA for the insurance sector and the former Texas Insurance Commissioner, ready for study. “Instead of nostalgia complete proposals for deregulation of industry, governments should insurance commissioners in California guidance on how to deal effectively lines of personal insurance,” he added.

Consumers give an average of more auto insurance than on any other type of insurance - a year on average over $ 700 per car and more than $ 1500 per household - more than $ 100 billion. Your concerns about rising auto insurance rates, more than any other factor leading to what the voters of California, the agreement initiated by the insurer has spent ten million dollars to defeat it.

CA pilot lower rates of profit, while the profits of insurers

After the passage of Prop. 103, California drivers receive rate operation up to $ 1.3 billion. But their greatest benefit was that prices fell in the next ten years. From 1989 to 1998, auto insurance prices fell by 4 percent in California, while the increase was over 25 per cent in the rest of the country. The decline lowest corresponds to the evolution of prices in each state of the nation.

At the same time, California was auto insurer enjoy healthy profits. A calculation annual return on wealthy from 1990 to 1999 shows that the insurance has reached 16.0 percent, compared to only 10.9 percent obtained by automobile insurers nationally.

No need to explain the competition and lower prices

Despite opposition from industry, 103 propose a hybrid system more competition with the needs and greater participation of consumers. The result was lower consumer prices and industry profits higher.

More competition: competition to promote the initiative to eliminate the exemption from state permits to sell banks, insurance groups, to allow purchases in active collaboration of insurance agents off a portion their commissions, and considerably improved consumer information. Regarding the latter needs 103 proposals from the commissioner in California, to assist consumers in a survey comparison of current rates for all lines of personal insurance.

Smarter regulation: Prop. 103 insurer is required to open their books to justify increases or decreases. For the first time in the state, insurers were financial incentives for good performance. The most important thing is that this “prior authorization” of effective regulatory system ended the traditional “cost plus” method of the insurer on pricing, there were few incentives for insurers to limit losses and effective . The insurer began to engage actively with the key costs.

Prop. 103 also consumers’ good driver ‘, while reducing incentives to discrimination impact of risk factors on the drivers had little or no control. “Clean” driver get discounts of 20 per cent and the right to purchase from the insurance company of their choice at the initiative of “good conduct protections.” This was an important reason that the proportion of those who were uninsured or insured in the automotive, risks associated Plan of California has increased by more than 50% from 1989 to 1999.

Grand consumer participation: Prop. 103 also allows greater participation of consumers to provide funds for consumers, whether the intervention intervenors an “essential” to contribute to the event. This provision is not only helped to strengthen California consumers, but also helped maintain insurance regulatory authorities honest.

Hurricane Katrina could cost the insurance industry up to $ 25 billion in rights, the most costly storm in the nation’s history, updated reports Tuesday from risk assessment firms.

AIR World Wide Corp., a risk modelling, which is headquartered in Boston, has revised its projections insured damage expected in the range of $ 17 billion to 25 billion dollars. Monday, the company has offered its initial assessments of damage in a number of losses of $ 12 billion to 26 billion dollars.

A similar projection came from another firm Risk Management Solutions of Newark, California, the damage resulting projection assured the hurricane of $ 10 billion to 25 billion dollars.

That is to say Katrina could be more costly than the arrangement record of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which is some 15.5 billion dollars in insured damage. After adjustment for inflation, Andrew’s cost nearly $ 21 billion.

The figures do not extend to the property is not insured, it could add that the billions in total. The Insurance Information Institute said that in the case of Andrew’s, which is not insured losses of May, 16 billion dollars.

Other companies have lower estimates of the impact of Katrina on the insurance sector, and all emphasize that data is preliminary because research teams have been unable, in areas difficult to so, there are on-site inspections.

What is the assessment of the loss of assembly, insurance companies sent teams of devices and claims processors in the region to begin to familiarize themselves with families whose homes were damaged or destroyed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Thomas Farr, a spokesman for GuideOne Insurance Co., whose headquarters is based in West Des Moines, Iowa, said the team was undertaken in the outer edges of the region of the hurricane and works in New Orleans.

“It is not safe,” Farr said the Gulf city. “You can not get there, the authorities and do not want your disposal. There is nothing that we can do at this point.”

GuideOne provided more than 4000 churches in the region and has also written owners and auto insurance.

Both State Farm Insurance Cos. of Bloomington, Ill., and Allstate Corp. of Northbrook, Ill., the two largest emitters insurance owner’s house in the region, both teams finished calendar to move in

“It is obvious that this concern is the loss of lives and the plight of populations in these areas are in,” said spokesman Dick Luedke of State Farm. “We have empathy for these people.”

Ray Stone, a spokesman for the Minnesota-St. Paul Travelers Cos., the beginning of commercial property insurers in the region, said his team was rather than the flood water “which has caused the shutdown of government authorities immense territories.

President Bush has declared Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as disaster, people pretending to support the confederation, if they do not have insurance or damages exceed their insurance coverage.

Jayanta Guin, AIR World Wide Vice President of research and modelling, said the company cover the loss of their estimates on the basis of the storm effectively and weather information, including reports of the actual wind speed. ”

He said while Katrina customers is not an end in full New Orleans, turbulent and soil because of the low east of the city, its winds “the effect of several densely populated areas.

Tuesday preceding the Allemagne’s Munich Re, the largest reinsurer worldwide to their initial estimates for the total insured loss between $ 15 billion and 20 billion dollars and exposure to $ 489 million, said, but this figure could change once more information.

Another risk modeling company Eqecat Inc, based in Oakland, California, initially estimated damages from Katrina with a maximum of $ 30 billion, but reduced its forecast twice the storm met the east of New Orleans and population, was quickly demoted because river transport moves.

It took a hurricane for Trudy Robinson to achieve, as it took a lot of health insurance is obvious.

A teacher for 22 years, she had her entire family by a policy of the New Orleans of the school. Like her, her husband or their children was sick, Robinson had no worries about bills.

In December, the sense of security closes. With 7500 other school employees, Robinson learned she was losing their care and their work. Well, they do not know how we pay for care.

“Only such a burden,” said Robinson, whose house in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, and anything that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. “They work all your lives, and are counting on you, that protection. Unless something happens, and then it’s over.”

Tens of thousands of people struggling for learning “Katrina,” which means to descend into the ranks of the uninsured, and how it may be difficult to get off.

Many common events _ a divorce, death, a body to amend a serious illness, companies dismissing _ can lead to what economic dislocation and job loss insurance, the main source of protection for medical care in USA, most families.

The New Orleans’ Sewage & Water Board, which lost its insurance coverage, could also lose $ 4 million or more in damages drainage in the construction Broadmoor.

The board of directors is faced with nearly 400 requests from residents and businesses near the construction on Napoleon and Claiborne avenues, who say they undermine their country and caused houses and buildings to be resolved. Residents’ big houses could mean an aging $ 10000 or more to repair.

The card is already in dispute with 35 complaints, including collective action. Implementation could take years, since the Board’s preference for drawing right of defence. Support the Board of the money is all the more difficult, because the law protects the state, the government seizure of property.

It is quite difficult, just before the header for damage in the short term - human, physical, economic - that Katrina has caused.

The consideration of the long-term loss, much less a forecast of intelligence, which is along the coast of golf Storm destroyed, is almost a super-task.

However, it is important to worry about how quickly - and whether - to restore what the hurricane took.

If nothing else, has the misfortune of one million internally displaced people or more must be some serious rethinking on how we manage risk - both economically and politically.