Blog posts about Car Insurance Info

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

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

Does Getting Married Help You Save on Car Insurance?

Posted by Josh Anish on April 18, 2012 in Data

Meet Josh. He’s 32 and lives in the suburbs outside San Francisco and drives a 2010 Honda Accord, though he’s still making payments on it. Josh holds a 4-year degree and a 9-5 office job as a “business analyst” -- a position to and from which he commutes 15 miles each way.

He rents his bachelor pad, where he sometimes drinks domestic beer but never before driving, thereby giving him a clean driving record. He’s been cruising around since the age of 16, and has had continual insurance the whole time.

Tags:: Car Insurance Info; CoverHound data

How to Avoid Crappy Insurance Sites

Posted by Josh Anish on April 16, 2012 in Consumers

Though we can’t use such technical language in our press kit, the mission here at CoverHound is basically to help consumers avoid crappy insurance comparison sites. Apologies if that sounds glib, but those of you who’ve spent time on a crappy insurance site are probably nodding your head in frustrated agreement right now.

For readers still unsure of what we’re talking about, we'll arrive at a definition.

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What Is No-Fault Car Insurance?

Posted by Josh Anish on March 30, 2012 in Consumers

You’re in a car accident. Your first instinct is to make sure you and your passengers aren’t hurt. Next you look across to make sure those in the other vehicle are okay too. Next it’s time to check out the cars, scrutinize for damages big and small.

But of course the question on the mind of everyone involved is... Whose fault was it?