No claims in 12 years with Allstate. Hear their home claims are a nightmare. Hear good things about Amica. Carry homeowners, 2 autos, and an umbrella. Would cut my auto insurance half but double my homeowners leading to a wash prior to the amica dividend payment. Couple questions: What do you use to calculate your replacement cost for a house? Do you make any changes to that calculation if the policy has an overage waiver? My Allstate is 20% and the quoted amica is 30%. Any reason to carry additional structures if I don’t have a fence or our buildings? Any others to look into for insurance? With amicas rates in auto, it could make sense to break out my homeowners if we don’t choose to bundle.

I’m looking for advice on how to get Budget Car Rental to refund me $1050 that they wrongfully charged me for “loss of use,” even though my insurance fully settled the claim. Timeline & Issue: • Sept 22 – I was in an accident with a Budget rental. • Oct 17 – Budget charged me $1050 on my personal credit card for “loss of use.” • Feb (First Week) – My insurance fully settled the claim, and I have a signed release letter from Budget’s claims department confirming everything is paid for. • Now (March) – Despite multiple follow-ups, Budget still hasn’t refunded my money. What I’ve Done So Far: 1. Emailed Budget—Sent a detailed request with the signed release letter proving all charges were covered by insurance. 2. Called Customer Service Twice—Each time, they escalated it to the billing department and told me to wait 5–7 business days. 3. No Refund, No Response—Every time I follow up, I get ghosted or asked to wait again. Why This Matters: I am a student, and $1050 is a huge amount for me to have tied up for months. Budget has been unresponsive, and I don’t know what to do next. What Are My Options? • Has anyone faced a similar issue and successfully gotten a refund? • Should I escalate this via a chargeback, BBB complaint, small claims court, or another method? • Any suggestions on getting Budget’s attention and making them act faster?

I hope the flair is correct. So I have Aetna POS II through my employer and my prescriptions are handled through OptumRX. I previously had Cigna health insurance for 2024 and was forced to Aetna cause plans changed and this was the cheapest one (even though it’s not cheap) I had an auth for Zepbound valid until 3/16/25 that was initiated in September 2024. Well my provider submitted a new auth and it was denied. Optum is telling me it’s my health insurances problem. Then Aetna tells me they have no control, contact Optum. My provider is supposed to submit an appeal but I’m feeling really confused. Who has control over the prescriptions then? How have I gotten two refills since January even with my health insurance changing? (Optum rx has not changed and I had them in 2024 too) Can anyone help me understand?

This year, my Farmers umbrella policy for 2 mil coverage premium increased from 1000/year to 3880/year. We are in California. Have umbrella/home/auto (2 cars, 2 drivers) with Farmers. My son is 22 and has an accident on his record from 2.5 years ago. He has his own car titled in his name. His car is insured on my policy. What would you do to lower the umbrella insurance cost? I am really struggling here. If he gets his own car insurance, can I be sued for an accident he causes since he is a dependent on my taxes? Thank you for any ideas.

Brother moved to California on Thursday and immediately needed emergency services. Covered California's website says people can enroll within 60 days of moving here but the social worker at the hospital says he can't apply to medi-cal because he's not been a resident for 60 days. We've been getting conflicting information. I'm hoping I can find some help/clarification here. He's early 40s and has no income

Car Came In Contact With Pedestrian Hello All, I would just like some community input. My mother a few days ago was driving her car in Queens, NYC, she was going about 18mph, when a pedestrian backed into traffic and came in contact with her car and was taken away by Ambulance, No damage to my mother's car and she was not injured. NYPD came and took a report and my mother's insurance. Other party literally hired an "Ambulance chaser" the next day. In the NYPD report they state what the pedestrian said, "pedestrian pulled over her car at body shop to be looked at, she stated she opened the hood and a splash of water spewed out and startled her and she jumped backwards" (NYPD did not witness the accident and I am aware the police report does not determine fault in accidents just criminal liability, but the report is used as a tool). My mother didn't have a dash cam (lesson learned), my mother also says that someone saw a security camera footage of thr incident. I just wanna know how screwed is my family since my mom has her car and house to worry about and now this? *Note* My mother works for the USPS and was on the clock at the time, she just drives her car to a central location on her route and then walsk her route. I already knew State Farm would deny the claim cause my mother was on the clock. They advised the other party to file a tort claim with the USPS. *Note, the USPS is not as transparent with its employees or customers. So I have very little faith in how this process will be handled since my mother was working at the time. Thank you all for your input.

so I’m on Medicaid since I’m not working due to my finger injury. I got my surgery done a few months ago and they send me a bill today. I literally thought everything is going to be covered by the insurance. Maybe I should’ve asked questions ahead of time, but I wasn’t aware of this since I know few people who got surgeries and it was covered. I’m not working right now as well since my finger is still not healed. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do right now. do I contact Medicaid or the surgery place? Not sure. by the way, my insurance is Blue cross complete of Michigan. My insurance did pay for over half of the bill but just confused why it wasn’t covered completely.

Renewal time is coming up soon and realized I never changed our address since we recently moved back to NY after living in RI. Well it’s going from $36 for my 5 year old cat to $60 a month. Overall she’s a very healthy kitty, the only health issue is she has asthma so I get that and I know as they get older it’s more costly cause of healthcare for them and providing services is expensive. Embrace has been great overall experience for us because we had to put one of our other cats down last year and they compensated us almost entirely but, I just wasn’t expecting because of the zip code to justify $60 every month now. Does anyone have any suggestions on our insurances if I’d be saving money elsewhere?

I have my cars and house bundled with Erie. I traded in my old car and bought a new car. When adding the new car they had to re-rate the policy and it jumped my homeowner policy up by 37%. No homeowner claims ever. Not sure how a new car justifies even looking at the home policy in the first place.

Hoping someone can provide some guidance for me as I am at point where I’m not to sure what to do. I live in MD and was in an accident a few weeks ago. It wasn’t my fault a driver jumped a stop sign and I was on the cross road and they connected me. Police came and the other driver immediately admitted fault. We are both with Statefarm so it’s been challenging dealing with this. My car is financed and the claims department wants to pay about $2k less than what I owe on the loan. I don’t have gap insurance. The claims department haven’t been the best in communication, but thankfully my Statefarm broker has been trying to help me convince them to just pay the difference on the loan because I have been a good customer with referrals and no claims. But now they have pretty much cut him off too. I also just put about $4K into the car for new tires, brakes, oil change etc. Where the bigger problem comes in, is that I don’t have funds to buy a new car or put a down payment down. I have reached out privately to the other driver to discuss additional compensation from their end to at least get me to put a down payment on a new car, I am not expecting them to buy me a new car. I am still waiting for them to respond. So here are my questions Can I request that the insurance pays for the work that I put in less than 3 months ago? Can I legally hold the other driver accountable for compensation for my loss and how would lawyers fees generally work with things like this. I am the only one that brings in an income currently for the family as my wife has just started a new business and it is still in the early stages of taking off. I really appreciate any help here.