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How Much Does Brandon Tierney Pay for Car Insurance?

Posted by Josh Anish on May 16, 2012 in Celebrity Profiles

We’re super excited to be working with the great team at 95.7 FM The Game. Sports fans in the Bay Area can now learn about CoverHound on the radio, plus we get to hang out with cool guys like Brandon Tierney.

So we’d like to welcome BT to the extended CoverHound family the best way we know how -- by figuring out whether he pays a lot for car insurance. He joins an illustrious list of celebrities to be profiled which includes Tim Tebow, Jeremy Lin, President Obama, Rick Santorum and even Jesus Christ himself.

Tags:: Car Insurance Info

Win a $1000 Gas Gift Card from CoverHound

Posted by Rory Joyce on May 16, 2012 in At CoverHound

The average household pays close to $300 a month on gas for their vehicles. CoverHound is giving away a $1,000 gas card – that’s more than 3 months worth of gas! Visit our Facebook page to enter.

Most consumers forget how much of a burden keeping your vehicles fueled up and insured is on their wallets. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s latest CPI report, we looked at the top expenses for the average US household. Remarkably, gas and insurance are the third highest expense for most households, only behind shelter and food.

Tags:: giveaways; gas

Car Insurance for Women -- How Rates Change with Age

Posted by Josh Anish on May 14, 2012 in Data

By now it is well known that women pay less for car insurance than men do. Men, at least according to the actuarial data used by insurance carriers, make larger and more frequent claims on their insurance policies -- generally as a result of driving more aggressively and more often.

But how about a female-only analysis. How about women as they age? At what age can women get the best insurance prices? Well CoverHound data has the answers to all these questions, and others. Straight from our proprietary platform.

Tags:: Car Insurance Info

The Truth about Good Student Discounts

Posted by Josh Anish on May 08, 2012 in Data

A Good Student Discount on car insurance is kind of like Mr. Snuffaluffagus on Sesame Street: everyone knows it exists, but not a lot of people have actually laid eyes on it.

Well, proprietary data from the CoverHound insurance shopping platform is happy to confirm the existence of Good Student Discounts. For the carriers who offer it, we can tell you exactly how much of a discount to expect. As for Snuffy, you’re still on your own, Big Bird -- sorry buddy.

Tags:: CoverHound data

Which Car is Cheaper to Insure: The Fiat 500 or the Chevy Volt?

Posted by Josh Anish on May 01, 2012 in Data

With national gas prices still hovering around $3.81 a gallon, petro zippers are understandably becoming more and more prevalent on American roads and highways.

The two flavors of the moment seem to be the Chevy Volt and the new Fiat North American 500. So which car is less expensive to insure? CoverHound has the answer, courtesy of its platform.