Insurance after a claim, young person

hatty444

Hi,

I am a 19 yearold male with an insurance premium of €2400 on a 2001 Fiat Punto. I have a full Irish License. I have since changed to a Renault Clio 1.2 2006. I am insured through AxA Insurance.

The crash I had involved the rebuilding of a garden wall, a third party vehicle to the value of €3000 and two personal injury claims for whiplash for the two occupants of the third party vehicle.

I am due for insurance renewal in September and I am scared to think what my insurance premium will increase to. Does anyone have any experience as to how these claims normally go? Will my insurance premium go up by much?

TIA for the help.

wonski

Just wait until September.

Insurance is a funny business, I know of a person with 5k claim and his insurance was the same after renewal.

You are high risk in general and god knows what kind of figure they will come up with. If you had some ncb protection maybe you will get away with it somehow.

In short nobody knows.

dazed+confused

I think it's time to get a Leap card!

hatty444

Just to follow up with you as to the result of the situation to give the story some closure.

The claim was settled with a value to the region of €15,000. This resulted in me earning zero no claims bonus in my first year as a new driver.

I called into my Local AXA Branch and told the story as I found that the conversations I was having over the phone didn't seem to help. All calls are recorded and it doesn't matter what they say over the phone, once the say it they have to stick to it so they couldn't really advise me on a one to one basis. The chap in the local branch said that my insurance shouldn't go up or down, that it should stay relatively the same, he wasn't being recorded for training and quality purposes.

He explained it like this:
When you are insured as a new driver. You are insured as a 19 yearold with a full license, 0 years driving experience, 0 NCB. After my first year, I would be insured as a 20 yearold with a full license, 1 years driving experience and 0 NCB. The claim seems to have little leverage on the insurance permium.

So in essence, your insurance goes up because you have lost your NCB, not because you have a claim.

I renewed to the same tune of €2500, Third Party Fire and Theft.

In October I bought a 2016 Seat Ibiza, 1L. When I rang AxA to swap the insurance over to the new car, my premium was reduced to €1000, fully comprehensive.

Turns out making a claim wasn't the end of the world!

Bobtheman

hatty444 wrote: »

Just to follow up with you as to the result of the situation to give the story some closure.

The claim was settled with a value to the region of €15,000. This resulted in me earning zero no claims bonus in my first year as a new driver.

I called into my Local AXA Branch and told the story as I found that the conversations I was having over the phone didn't seem to help. All calls are recorded and it doesn't matter what they say over the phone, once the say it they have to stick to it so they couldn't really advise me on a one to one basis. The chap in the local branch said that my insurance shouldn't go up or down, that it should stay relatively the same, he wasn't being recorded for training and quality purposes.

He explained it like this:
When you are insured as a new driver. You are insured as a 19 yearold with a full license, 0 years driving experience, 0 NCB. After my first year, I would be insured as a 20 yearold with a full license, 1 years driving experience and 0 NCB. The claim seems to have little leverage on the insurance permium.

So in essence, your insurance goes up because you have lost your NCB, not because you have a claim.

I renewed to the same tune of €2500, Third Party Fire and Theft.

In October I bought a 2016 Seat Ibiza, 1L. When I rang AxA to swap the insurance over to the new car, my premium was reduced to €1000, fully comprehensive.

Turns out making a claim wasn't the end of the world!

Thanks for that. I had a few crashes. Total about 3.5k Three crashes to be precise. Only one involved another car. Accident might be better term . Zurich tried to ride me with 1600 only third party etc. I went to xcess direct and got 1300 fully comprehensive but with 3k excess.
If you have a car of any value then third party ain't enough.
There is little rhyme or reason in the way they operate. My policy came down to 860 this year . They intially wanted to charge me 1100 but I spoofed them and told them I had an offer of 900. Wish I spoofed them more !

Henry Ford III

3 crashes is a lot!

endacl

Henry Ford III wrote: »

3 crashes is a lot!

Two of them single vehicle. Otherwise known as ‘losing control’...

Bobtheman

Losing control is an exaggeration and poor use of vocabulary.. In two cases I just badly parked and in another case I tipped a bumper. I was at a loss to actually see the dent.
Losing control sounds like I spun off the road and wrote off the vehicle. Not the case at all but one loves a bit of hyperbole with ones tea!

Gatling

Nice story !

Graham

Bobtheman wrote: »

In two cases I just badly parked

as in you 'parked' into something else?

Bobtheman

Sorry I forgot how being honest brings out sanctimonious pricks like above. Including the "moderator". Ban the **** away.