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Insurance Rates Are a Black Box: Understanding Texas Property Insurance Rates

You open your homeowners renewal and the premium has jumped again. The letter offers a vague explanation — "adjustments reflecting current loss experience" — and you are expected to accept it. What you are almost certainly not told is how that number was calculated, which tier you have been placed in, or what it will cost you to file a claim. In Texas, much of that information is shielded from public view.

David Hargrove

Home & Auto

Insurance Rates Are a Black Box 2.0: The Auto Insurance Edition

If you read the first installment of this series, you already know the core points: insurance pricing is built on layers of data, algorithms, and actuarial judgment that carriers are largely not required to explain to the people paying for them. This article focuses on what is unique to auto.

David Hargrove