Home Insurance -- Understanding How They Calculate Your Premium And Using It To Your Advantage

The better your understanding of any subject, the more easily you can position yourself for the greatest benefits. This is true of home insurance. If you understand how insurance companies calculate your home insurance rates, you'll be better equipped to position yourself for the best price value. This article will help you do that...
Home insurance providers (Whether home owners or renters) are there to make profit. Yes, they are there to render a service. However, you must understand that they are primarily out to make a decent profit. And like every good business, they'll not jeopardize their chances of being profitable.

So what does this have to do with you? I'm glad you asked. If you have a high likelihood of making a claim an insurance company's chances of making a profit reduces by the same factor. So here's what they do to ensure they stay profitable: They increase your premium according to the risk they associate with insuring you.

To make things even clearer: Insurance companies look at the ratio of insured persons who make a claim within a profile. If they've discovered that out of every 500 insured persons within a given profile A, 5 persons typically make a claim within a year, they'll consider such a profile a higher risk than another, B, that averages one claim out of every 300 insured persons annually.

So let's say they pay $30,000 per claim for a particular policy, they can charge a premium of $150 per insured person for profile B and be able to fulfill their obligation and still turn a profit. However, they won't make any profit from profile B even if they take $500 per insured person. Therefore, they may be compelled to take as much as $650 or more in this case to make a profit.

This means that the higher the likelihood that people who fit your profile will make a claim, the higher your premium has to be. Now, what can you do about this?

First, stop everything that increases your chances of making a claim in your home insurance. For example, live in low-crime neighborhoods, have fire and security systems, etc.

Next, get and compare quotes from home insurance sites. These won't change the factors. However, they'll help you take advantage of the disparity in home insurance quotes given by different companies.

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Chimezirim Odimba writes on insurance.