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Re:The big data of bad driving, and how insurers plan to tra... by criddell on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:12PM (#10867377)
> 3 hail storms, crushed car (tree limbs), tornado and 2 hit and run drivers (likely uninsured)

Why should any of those claims make your rate go up? If a tree crushes your car you aren't a bigger risk to insure next year.

Re:The big data of bad driving, and how insurers plan to tra... by iolothebard on Monday January 11, 2016 @02:12PM (#10882472)
Oklahoma has an extraordinarily high rate of uninsured drivers.

The tree that crushed my car was a result of an ice storm. We get those frequently as well. (My entire lot is covered in trees.)

Re:The big data of bad driving, and how insurers plan to tra... by sondring on Friday January 08, 2016 @03:55PM (#10868161)
Sounds like he's not parking in a garage. I could see that leading to higher rates in some ares of the US.
Re:The big data of bad driving, and how insurers plan to tra... by binarycrusader on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:29PM (#10869804)
Geico, as an example, no longer cares if you park your car in a garage (secured) or not. I was explicitly told they no longer consider it statistically meaningful.

Instead, they go off statistics from the area code that your vehicle will generally be parked in and how far your commute to work is.

Re:The big data of bad driving, and how insurers plan to tra... by criddell on Friday January 08, 2016 @03:56PM (#10868171)
He wasn't parked in a garage before either. If the cost of insurance is based on risk, the fact that a tree falls on your car doesn't increase your risk. If anything, the risk in the future may be lower as presumably that tree isn't going to fall on the car again.
Re:The big data of bad driving, and how insurers plan to tra... by mratzloff on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:15PM (#10868312)
Hail storms and tornadoes are more likely than where he used to live, I'd suppose?