My first real job was for my state’s “assigned risk pool”. I won’t name my state here for privacy reasons, but many states have this concept.
The idea is, if you have such an awful driving record that NOBODY will volunteer to write you a policy, you go through the assigned risk pool. The pool “randomly” assigns you to an insurance company, which has to take you. The insurance company writes you a liability only policy, in theory at a substantially higher rate than you’d get if you didn’t have such a lousy record.
In practice, since liability is mandatory if you want to drive, and public transportation stinks, there was a lot of political pressure to keep rates down. If memory serves (this was 15+ years ago) there was a cap: no matter how many accidents, DWI convictions, or tickets you had, they could only charge you a certain amount over market.
My first real job was for my state’s “assigned risk pool”. I won’t name my state here for privacy reasons, but many states have this concept.
The idea is, if you have such an awful driving record that NOBODY will volunteer to write you a policy, you go through the assigned risk pool. The pool “randomly” assigns you to an insurance company, which has to take you. The insurance company writes you a liability only policy, in theory at a substantially higher rate than you’d get if you didn’t have such a lousy record.
In practice, since liability is mandatory if you want to drive, and public transportation stinks, there was a lot of political pressure to keep rates down. If memory serves (this was 15+ years ago) there was a cap: no matter how many accidents, DWI convictions, or tickets you had, they could only charge you a certain amount over market.
I'll add that to my list of things government screws up. Thanks.