MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Holy premium jump, Batman!

> So my son got his driver's license today (congratulations to him, big day), and I
> called my auto insurance to add him...
>
> My 6 month premium went from $200/6mo to $1000/6mo!
>
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> I asked the lady to double check that... I expected a bump, but not a 5x sky rocket.
> Sure enough, it was right. And that's WITH a good student discount.
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> Fuck me.
>
> I'lll shop around, but damn.

Yup, I had the same experience a few years ago when my son got his drivers license. Then we were thinking about buying him a beater for his first car and I checked the insurance company website to get some quick quotes to see how much the premium would go up if we did decide to buy him a car. Well, that was a big mistake because then they automatically added him to my insurance and wouldn't let me take him off so my premium shot up by $1000. They claimed that everyone in the household with a drivers license is required to have insurance regardless of whether they own or drive a car. I ended up changing insurance companies even though we did decide to buy him a car...

Now that I'm with Progressive they have been dropping our premium every six months since my son hasn't had any accidents or driving violations so it's gone down quite a lot from when I first put him on the insurance. I doubt Geico would have done the same if I had stayed with them.