Eric : Why do you have to pay more for your teen to drive?

Teen age drivers and car insurance
Response : The terms of your auto insurance contract or policy between you and your insurer specifically require that you disclose and schedule all household drivers and all regular drivers of your vehicle on your policy. You are also required to notify your Insurer of any change in household drivers during the poliy term such as when a teen begins to drive. This allows the insurance company to properly asses the risk and assign the appropriate premium required to cover those risk.

The policy states that all the those others are covered as an added protection for the policy holder. It is not unusual for circumstances to arise when you may give permission for a non scheduled driver to operate your vehicle whether they are visiting non resident family members and other friends.

Teenagers are young drivers who are just learning to drive. They are considered immature and are known for speeding. In US the number of teenaged drivers, as per the 2003 bulletin are 4.8% of the total drivers. Yet they account for 22.1% of drivers in all accidents. The analysis indicates that teenage drivers are more likely to be at fault and the causes of this are speeding or traffic violations.Thus the insurers have categorized them as a high risk and you are charged more for the teen or young drivers.

So the language is not designed to allow the concealment of high risk teen drivers. Such concealment or non-disclosre of a known driver is considered a well known form of Insurance Fraud and can Void all policy coverages.
However, the internet has made it easy to obtain cheap teen auto insurance quote online.


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