More Accidents, Larger Claims Drive Costs Higher

October 25, 2016

Over the past year, several forces have coincided to place considerable upward pressure on personal automobile insurance costs. Insurer actions in response have drawn considerable media and regulatory scrutiny. This paper examines recent trends in the largest component of the cost of auto insurance the cost of accidents. The dollar amount of claims per vehicle per year known in insurance as the loss cost is rising. Loss costs are the largest component of the price of auto insurance. They are also the most volatile. Whatever direction they move, rates will eventually follow. In recent years, total loss costs have been moving considerably higher rising 13 percent in the two years ending March 2016 more than 10 times the inflation rate.

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