Your renewal went up and you never claimed. Here's what actually follows you.
Premiums move for reasons that have nothing to do with you. What you control is whether you add a claim of your own.
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Plain-English guides to not-at-fault accidents in Victoria: what to do at the scene, what you're entitled to, and how the recovery actually works.
Your van is off the road. Nobody is paying you to wait.
For a sole trader the van is the business, and the days it is off the road cost more than the panel.
She drove a damaged car for a fortnight because she thought she'd have to pay for it
Not at fault, no excess, no claim on her policy, and liability accepted inside three weeks. The hard part was the two weeks before she called.
When your car is written off, the first figure you're offered is a position, not a fact
We have the car independently assessed, so the settlement is argued from evidence rather than accepted from the other side's spreadsheet.
Someone hit your car and you're putting off the repair. You may not have to pay for it.
Rates went to 4.60% and people are deferring repairs and avoiding claims. If someone else hit you, the repair and a replacement car are recoverable from their insurer.