Why does each car insurance company have different rates?

Have you ever wondered why major insurance companies have different rates? Why you have to shop around for different quotes? It seems like all the insurance companies look at the same data about accidents, wouldn't they treat those statistics the same? Each insurance company weighs every risk factors differently and that is the reason for so much disparity between rates. Because of this you receive very different quotes from every insurance companies.

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This is a great Google Car Insurance Knol explaining all the reasons why every company has different rates.

Last Updated 12:50 PM October-16-2011

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