My wife and I have car insurance through Progressive. We moved to CO 6 months ago and are paying ~$475 for 2 cars for the first 6 months. However, our premium went up to ~$625 for the next 6 month payment, and that’s after the lump sum payment discount. No clue why it raised in price because we haven’t gotten any tickets or been in any accidents and I haven’t modified the coverage at all. We did Snapshot and it says we’re going to be saving another $55 by continuing with snapshot, so I can’t imagine our driving patterns have increased our premium by $150. Online, it doesn’t say why it’s increasing. How can I reduce my premium without changing coverage? When I call and ask why my premium went up, will threatening to leave for another insurance provider force their hand to give me a lower rate? If so, what information should I come prepared with?

Trying to figure out how much longer I should justify purchasing insurance for my goldendoodle. He is very healthy, not overweight. But I do have some pricey allergy treatments for him a couple times a year, but doubling his insurance is crazy! Any recommendations? \*\*Nationwide pet insurance\*\*

Long story short. Storm came thru Pittsburgh region. Pretty moderate wind and hail damage to roof, windows, screens, gutters and downspouts. Had 2 adjusters that never called me back. 3rd adjuster scheduled a “ladder assist” inspection. Had 2 seek now inspections. (Needed a re-inspection since first one was done with a wet roof.) Adjuster 3 said “I put you in for a full roof replacement”. 2 days later I now have adjuster #4 assigned to my case. Adjuster #4 states “your old adjuster didn’t have the authority to issue you a full roof replacement, management is disputing your claim, we’re having a engineer come out to your house for an inspection, the hail in your area wasn’t that big in diameter”. It’s been 40+ days since the storm and I have an interior leak…. They just came out 2 days ago to inspect the inside. Has this happened to anyone else? What’s my next move? I have pictures of my roof from September 2024 when I had my chimneys re-pointed with no damage. Now you can tell I have shingles bent from the storm. It at a loss on what to do. Edit #1: 1” hail came thru the area. Edit #2: Correction to edit #1 - Roof is 10 years old. Looking into weather report now. 1.75” hail in my location. 60mph winds. 1/4 mile away a roof was blown off a grocery store. 4 of my neighbors have already had their roofs replaced.

Evacore under the auspices of Highmark ( aka Gravemark) has denied my cardiac cath for the second time. Next step —- letter +\~ phone call to Evacore ????

Hi all, So this is a grey area and I really do not know how to go about this so I would appreciate any input here. I'd rented a car for the weekend to drive around town and visit nearby places. Had some time left before returning so I had a colleague over, and we decided to go out but he wanted to take the wheel. So, we drove to a nearby restaurant and while parking into the restaurant he backed too heavily and banged into the wall. There is a sizeable damage to the car's rear with scratches all around, damage to the rear lights and the bumper too. I know I am screwed as it is the worst car rental company (Sixt), but also, I was not driving. I know my card, Amex has an insurance that covers this sort of stuff, but of course it requires me to be the authorized driver to be able to claim this. I do not know what to do here, because I do care about the colleague and don't want him to get screwed because of the charges too because I know it is gonna be hefty one (probably a couple thousand bucks to say the least), so any advice would be appreciated here. Do I trust the claim verification process to not involve checking through on the cameras, or, just be honest, I don't know. Help!

Hi all! I have a 13 year old German shepherd mix Pitbull grandpa baby with no pre existing conditions. I took him to the vet recently and it looks like he may have signs of arthritis at his back legs. Aside from that he is relatively healthy and has a few years strong(hopefully) My question is whether to continue my current insurance with nationwide or switch to something relatively cheaper/better or stash cash. I recently used it for his visit and they only covered 70 % of the visit, vaccine was not included and I have a 250 deductible. My premium is about 200 a month. My family and I think aside from emergencies and possible end of life care we’re not sure if the premium is worth it. Any advice is deeply appreciated!

I was just informed that my progressive home policy will be dropped due to the condition of my detached garage's roof. They want to see a signed contract to demolish the structure or replace the roof within "the immediate future." The problem is, we are working with a contractor and engineer to plan and permit a new 2 story garage/living space in its place and that process will likely take at least a year before breaking ground, maybe more. It would be a huge waste of money to re roof a structure that will be demolished and would be a huge inconvenience to demolish the structure over a year early. Does anyone know the magic words to say to impress upon them that the structure will be torn down. Or is there any way they can exclude that structure from my policy? Or am I SOL and should start shopping for a new policy?

Anyone familiar with this? Or the MassHealth system in general? I am behind befuddled here. Received notices over the weekend that my children’s MassHealth Standard was downgraded to MassHealth Family Assistance. Mine stayed the same. Dads was terminated. We are not married. Dad goes through the VA and does not need health insurance. He is 100% disabled through the VA but still employable ‘outside his field’. The kids have been on MassHealth for at least 7 years now. Dad got a job last year, we reported the income, nothing changed except for his no longer needing health insurance as he didn’t realize the VA was sufficient (we are required to carry health insurance in Massachusetts). I received these letters this weekend and cannot get a live person on the phone. I don’t know if I need to find the kids a new health plan or not. The letter is not clear, at all, as to what my next steps are and coverage ‘ends’ from MassHealth Standard on this coming Saturday. One of my children was born with several medical conditions and we pretty much live at the doctor/specialist. If anyone had any guidance or advice I’d gladly take it!

I'm insured with Geico in Texas, with a $1,000 deductible for both collision and comprehensive coverage, and I’m also enrolled in their rental reimbursement program. My car needed repairs, so I took it to the body shop and used Geico’s rental service to get a car from Enterprise. I paid about $50 in taxes and fees with my United MileagePlus Explorer card — Geico covered the rest of the rental. While I was driving the rental, the windshield cracked. Enterprise later sent me a bill for $415. I contacted Geico, but they said they won’t cover it because the damage is below my $1,000 deductible. I also reached out to Chase (the MileagePlus Explorer card issuer), but they said the rental insurance benefit doesn’t apply because I didn’t pay for the entire rental with the card — Geico paid most of it — so they won’t cover it either. So now I’m stuck with the $415 bill. Is there anything I can do here? Has anyone dealt with a similar situation?

So this is a bit long and involved. I’m a 25M who just moved back home to take over a family business after a family member was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. We have a block of commercial units we rent out, most of them under one roof, and two units disconnected from the main building. In total we have about 75,000 SF of commercial retail space. Problem is when the landlord has Alzheimer’s they forget to do important things like carrying insurance on the main building with 65,000 SF. So I went to the insurance agency we’ve always went through for literally everything commercial or otherwise. They insisted for two months that I had coverage on all the properties (unfortunately I don’t have that in writing) despite being unable to provide a bill or declarations listing the units. It took me ambushing the agent at the office an hour away and showing her a map of the property for her to understand that despite the disconnected units being covered, the main building and parking lot carried no coverage. She had never even audited the property or looked at it on maps nor visited it. She finally says she’ll get working on adding the main units to the policy, and today she emails me right before she leaves to tell me there is no way possible for auto-owners to cover us as we have two restaurants on the property (my gf used to work as a receptionist at a different agency auto-owners does do commercial coverage for restaurants in my area). So now I’m stuck here with no insurance on a multimillion dollar lot because I get the feeling the agent doesn’t feel like rewriting the policy. All of my families coverage for everything is through this agency and auto-owners but the agency is incompetent at the very least and it’s evident I need to switch agencies at least. The only experience I have with insurance prior to this is renters insurance and personal auto, I’m really at a loss for where to start or what I should be switching around. Any advice or guidance is appreciated.