Personal Information for Car Insurance Application Online

 

October 18, 2007 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Auto Insurance Online 

Reader question:

When I get my car insurance online, what kind of information do they get on me?

Martin

Thank you for your question, Martin.

Every time that you apply for car insurance online, you will have to, of course, fill out an application with certain information, such as your name, age, and so on. In addition to that, your car insurance company or agent will then require some extra information and then seek out some more. They will need:

  • Your annual mileage on your vehicle.
  • Driving history.
  • Number of years you have been driving.

Using this information, they will then determine what the price of your coverage will be for buying your car insurance online.

Your driving history is contained on your motor vehicle report, which gets its information from the California department of motor vehicles. This will have the dates and quality of any moving violations you have been ticketed for, any license suspensions, as well as any car accidents. The report will also be acquired for any other people who will be on the policy you are buying of insurance online.

If you get into bad trouble, then you may be required to provide your car insurance company with an SR22 form. Normally, you will have to continue with your SR22 filing for three years after the date that your license is restored to you. I say restored because you only get an SR22 after your license has been suspended, though not in all cases of license suspension. Even though your company only has to file the SR22 form for only three years, though, the conviction will usually stay on your record for seven and you will be charged the high rates accordingly.

The SR22 form is different from the SR1 form, so don’t get confused. Anytime that you get into an accident where somebody gets hurt, or when the amount of the damages is above $750, you will need to file the SR1 form within ten days with the department of motor vehicles in your area.

Cheers,

Fashun Guadarrama.