To be honest I don’t feel that a persons credit rating have anything to do with car insurance. A quote should be an honest quote of what it cost per month and per year. Either you pay your car insurance or not. What risk is this to the Insurance company? It can be canceled by the company if payment is not made. The company doesn’t pay for an accident that occur if the policy is not in force. There is no loss to them. What is the point of making someone pay a higher premium if they haven’t had an accident nor was it their fault. This is unfair racking it in. Who made this policy to base it on your credit rating? The economy is in a depression right now so many people will have bad credit ratings and those who have fallen into this mess now will have higher payments and have never had an accident or it wasn’t their fault. They are not responsible for the deficit we have today. All rates should depend on Make, Model and Year of your car. A Credit Rating has nothing to do with paying your monthly amount for coverage. Can you tell me why, if no accidents have been caused? It doesn’t have a feasible answer to me.
In a nutshell, (statistically) people who have a poor credit score are more likely to file a claim.
Actuarial studies show that how a person manages his or her financial affairs, which is what an [insurance score] indicates, is a good predictor of insurance claims. Insurance scores, plus other factors such as age, driving record, make and model of your car, and how many insurance claims have been filed in the past, are used to help insurers differentiate between lower and higher insurance risks and thus charge a premium equal to the risk they are assuming.
The goal of every insurance company is to correlate rates for insurance policies as closely as possible with the actual cost of claims. If insurers set rates too high they will lose market share to competitors who have more accurately matched rates to expected costs. If they set rates too low they will lose money.
Some states ban the use of credit scores as a consideration. This might been seen as benefiting those in lower economic groups — but others in the risk pool are subsidizing these people (from a statistical perspective).