I just financed a truck about 3 weeks ago and the dealer approved me with a loan through Westlake financial, I didn’t know much about them but after searching them, people have negative reviews about them. Well now I’m thinking that if I refinance my car loan, would it still count as 1 hard inquiry since I’m still under the “checking best rates” Time frame. Or should I just wait a couple months and then refinance later

I am 20 years old and on my parents insurance. I got prescribed a medication under the impression that they would not be notified but my dad got a call about the prior authorization being approved and also a letter in the mail. Does anyone know how to change this/prevent this happening again in the future?

When I bought my car in 2022 i was living with my dad in florida and he signed for the car with me, in order to bring my payments down a bit the dealer recommended he be listed as the owner and i am the co-owner. I have since moved to Illinois and I was looking to bring down my insurance by getting my own policy, but he ended up receiving a threat to suspend his license for the car not being insured even though it was, so i just added him to my policy anyway. Now I’m trying to get a new policy because unfortunately my dads been in like 3 accidents in the last few years so State Farm dropped me after i added him on. Does anyone know if the primary owner HAS to be insured even if across the country or if he could file something specific proving insurance without him being listed? Or would i be able to just make myself the primary owner even though i’m still financing the car?

I have Allstate homeowners insurance in Southern California. I heard a noise in my kitchen a little while after I started my dishwasher so I went to investigate. I found my kitchen floors were covered in water. I finally realized it was a burst water inlet pipe underneath my kitchen sink. I’ve been trying to get a hold of my agent but he isn’t available today. I spoke to someone through Allstate and was told to call somebody out to mitigate damages. I’m afraid to have somebody come out and tear up my kitchen if the insurance is not going to cover it.

Hey everyone, I'm currently living in CA and am on an Anthem Select HMO through my employer - my entire family (wife, daughter, me) are covered under this plan. My wife is currently pregnant with #2 due in September. However, my family will be moving to Pennsylvania in a couple months, and I will likely be staying with my same employer/plan (this is still to be confirmed but seems like it'll be the case). However, the Anthem Select HMO does not have coverage in the area we will be moving to, but the company also offers PPO options that do have coverage in the new area. Will moving across the country, at which point my coverage would essentially be lost, count as a qualifying life event and allow us to switch to the PPO coverage? I tried to reach out to the insurance company, but they said they can't make that determination. Is it a state requirement that determines it? If so, would it be CA state or PA state that would take precedence? I'm waiting to explore further with my company until it's for sure that I'll be staying with this employer as we're kind of keeping it on the hush-hush until it's official. Curious on your guys thoughts.

I was on the freeway heading out to go camping. I was going 0 mph. The van behind did not stop and smashed into me between 20-30 mph. I have a rear camera on my truck that showed him looking at his phone. I also recorded as soon as I got out of the car of him admiting to not stopping. My car insurance (GEICO) gave me the option to go through them or the person that hit me. The van was a Xerox van. Their insurance is called American Way. I called them the day of and gave the police report. They said they use a 3rd party called Sedgwick. I paid 30k for my truck less than a year ago. 10k of that was because of all the add ons. The other insurance company said I have to wait 5 days. The rear of the frame on my truck is facing the ground. I’m not sure about the rest of the frame. Most of the people I’ve talked to said they will probably total it. I’ve also retained an attorney in my area for bodily injury. I work from home but, can’t sit at my desk for more than an hour. I’ve been seeing a chiropractor today and retained the attorney today. They said it will likely take 6-9 months and would settle between 20-40k. This is only for medical. Does this seem normal? Will I be able to recoup the loss on my truck for the extra 10k ? It KBB blue books for around 20k but, I paid 30k. I also had my Yakima box on the back and paddleboard which were destroyed. My own insurance said even if I use them for the truck I will still have to use the other insurance to recover the loss on my things that were destroyed and if they repair my truck for finished value. After 20 years of driving I’d never had a fender bender. Should I just go ahead and use my own insurance? Sorry for the rant.

Location: Denver, Colorado This happened at Budget Rent-a-Car at DIA. So this has been dragging on for around 2 months and the amount of lies upon lies that we've been told would make this post ridiculously long, so I'll keep it as short as possible. Budget wrongly denied a prepaid rental booked through a third party, claiming that it was against their T&Cs, and sold another agreement at 3 times the price for a lesser car plus extras which were specifically not asked for. After finding out the original rental was wrongly denied, we contacted them to ask them to honor the original rate. At first they argued, wrongly citing their T&Cs again, but eventually agreed to honor the original rate. This was promised verbally and by email. The inflated rate was still charged at the end of the rental, and subsequently a refund was promised verbally on 2 separate occasions, explicitly stating the amount and timeframe. The refund did not happen and they are now denying ever promising it. On top of this, the car they claim we returned is not the car we rented, and they've added a fuel charge. I have email evidence of agents lying about what their T&Cs say, and proof that contradicts what they claim on the phone. We also know the desk agent receives a commission for upselling because there are job listings for the same location which state this. The issue is, their customer service is impossible to deal with. They pick and choose what parts of the emails they want to reply to, disregarding they key points of my email each time, and it takes days to get a half hearted response. Calling is no use because they later just deny what was said. We have filed reports with BBB and disputed the CC charge, so other than waiting on the outcome of that, what can be done? They have taken a four figure sum from us and are constantly contradicting themselves and misleading us, and there is no urgency from them at all. 6 hours+ of waiting on the phone and explaining things, plus a chain of around 30 emails, many not even getting replies, speaking to probably around 15+ different CSRs and we are back to square one even after they admitted we were right. It's infuriating. Because the amount is only 4 figures and the case is becoming so long and complex with insane amounts of law violations, taking it to court might not be economically viable, but the complete disregard for the law can't be allowed to slide. Even a full refund wouldn't be justice at this point. I'm not sure what to do as it's becoming a full time job trying to keep a timeline and stay on top of evidence etc.

I was laid off effective 3/31. (Thanks, Trump and Musk.) I filled out the application with PENNIE on 3/31. Got approved and told I have 60 days to select a plan. I called PA/PENNIE then. I didn't have my COBRA info yet so couldn't make an informed decision. I just logged back on to PENNIE and while it still says "you have 52 days to choose a plan," the effective date is coming up as May 1st, not retro to April 1st (like how COBRA works). I've called and the rep is not well-informed. The last time I called, another rep said "yes you can choose later and it goes retroactive."

Hi all, I'm running into a pretty frustrating issue. I have called like 50 clinics in the Austin area and even though they appear on the list of clinics that take my insurance, they don't. Is the only option to pay out of pocket? My son is 3 and has a delay that was diagnosed at 2. We had speech therapy for a while and he is doing a lot better, but I am having issues getting it covered. I have an Aetna plan that is self-funded through my employer. If I could find a clinic, they would cover the sessions at 100%. My son is 3 and I have called the school district, but they said it would be next school year before they could assess and set him up, if his delay is even serious enough. He does not have autism, he has no other markers for it besides the speech delay.

I've had a Hagerty policy for about 4 years on my B5 S4. For context, I live on Long Island, NY. Around December of last year I made a decision to remove the insurance and plates from the vehicle due to other priorities in life. Over the years, my annual policy rate typically ranged between $600 to $720 with an agreed upon value of $15k. Deductibles were $500 and property damage / bodily injury was set to $100k/300k with supplemental at $50k. The time has come to get insurance and plates for the car, again. I got a quote from Hagerty yesterday and it came up to $2370 per year! The policy was configured identically to the last quote I received for renewal in February of 2025 which was quoted at $719 for the year. My driving record, credit score and address is the same. I called up to have someone review and validate that I have configured the quote criteria exactly as the recently canceled policy. The Hagerty rep confirmed the policy configuration and was also shocked by the difference in the quote. She mentioned that there was an increase recently to all NY issued policies but she did not have any other value added info. Do any of you fellow redditors have a recommendation for a specialty vehicle policy with other companies? I filled out an additional application with Grundy that is currently under review.