You know, it's weird I'm hearing about more and more people have issues with their insurance companies in the last little while.
I was with Intact, and I received my yearly renewal papers and they increased my yearly fees by almost $2,000 out of nowhere. I've been with them since I was 18 (now 32), no accidents, and only have 2 minor convictions on my record. My broker wouldn't do anything (originally told me to call her back in 2 months, because she "can't quote until a month before renewal", and she could figure something out). 4 calls and 2 e-mails to my broker went unanswered after 2 weeks, so I reached out to another broker. I still had to deal with an increase, but it was just under $1,000 increase. I'm now with wawanesa (or however it's spelled).
On the first call to my original broker, she gave me some long winded story about how insurance companies/brokers aren't making money anymore, government will probably be doing government insurance soon and getting rid of private, etc... While I think the majority of what she said was BS, I'm wondering if there has recently been some changes to how drivers are rated, or how companies are evaluating risk. When calling to cancel, I had to call multiple times, and finally call the switchboard to tell them I want to cancel, but I'm not getting a call back. Finally got a call back, and I was told they couldn't find anything lower and that's why she didn't get back to me (again, not sure if this is BS or true).
EDIT/ADD: Always have been, and still at GRID level: -015
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