April 30, 2012|By MATTHEW STURDEVANT, msturdevant@courant.com, The Hartford Courant
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The Hartford topped all added insurers back it comes to arcade for auto insurance, according to abstraction after-effects arise Monday from J.D. Power and Associates.
J.D. Power and Associates' 2011 U.S. Allowance Arcade Abstraction was based on responses from added than 16,000 bodies who requested an auto allowance amount adduce from at atomic one insurer in the accomplished 12 months. The abstraction was conducted in January and February.
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The Hartford Financial Services Group ranks accomplished amid auto insurers in alms a acceptable arcade experience. Insurers were denticulate on a 1,000 point calibration that takes into application price, action alms and added characteristics.
The Hartford denticulate 857, followed by Liberty Mutual and American Family, Auto Club Group, Nationwide, Amica Mutual, State Farm, Erie Insurance, MetLife, Auto-Owners Insurance, GEICO, Ameriprise and Auto Club Group of Southern California — all of which were aloft the industry boilerplate account of 828.
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Below the industry average, from accomplished to everyman rank, were Safeco, 21st Century, Farmers, Allied, Esurance, The Travelers Cos., Allstate, AAA NCNU Allowance Exchange, Progressive, GMAC and Mercury.
One in four allowance barter shopped for a new auto-insurance action in the accomplished 12 months, which is the everyman amount in the accomplished bristles years. Of those who shopped for a new policy, 43 percent switched allowance companies, which is the accomplished amount of alteration insurers back J.D. Power aboriginal conducted this abstraction in 2008.
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"Although beneath consumers are arcade for insurance, added accepted barter who do are accommodating to accomplish a about-face based on aggressive quotes," said Jeremy Bowler, chief administrator of all-around allowance at J.D. Power and Associates.
People who assay prices online are added acceptable to about-face admitting the actuality that the archetypal anniversary accumulation of a about-face has decreased from an boilerplate of $412 in 2010 to alone $359 in the accomplished 12 months, Bowler said.
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Insurance companies are spending added on announcement at a time back beneath barter are attractive to about-face insurers. Across the industry, spending on announcement added by 12 percent aftermost year compared with 2010, according to an assay of approved filings abstracts for 2011 performed by Dowling and Partners, LLC.
"The industry spent $5.7 billion on announcement and allowances in 2011, but this added absorb does not arise to accept generated a adequate access in bazaar churn," said Bowler.
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