ICBC Claims Rated Scale is changing on May 6, 2018. Experienced accident-free drivers get the shaft.

Seems okay to me. Accident free drivers are not effected. 1 accident still give you 43% discount. Where as before it takes 3 accidents to lose some of that discount, I don’t know if you can call that good drivers.

nuropa wrote: ↑ Seems okay to me. Accident free drivers are not effected. 1 accident still give you 43% discount. Where as before it takes 3 accidents to lose some of that discount, I don’t know if you can call that good drivers.

Shows how little you know, how is that fair if a -20 goes up 11 spots while a -15 only moves up 6 spots to the same level?
I might as well take my minor rear bumper scratch for a paint job, after May 6 it won't be any different with my -20.

Once you get in an at-fault accident you can hardly claim to be am accident-free driver. Especially two within 6 years. I don't really care about the changes, and I'm a -20. (I might be higher since I got my license at 16 and I'm 39 now, so I'm a -23 if the scale goes past 20. ) I always thought that it was odd that once I made it to -15 I could get into an accident every 3 years and keep the max discount.

Everybody at -16 and better still gets a freebie, and if they cause an accident, they get another freebie 6 years later. As long as you go 6+ years between accidents you can can keep your max discount.

It's the middle tiers (-4 to -13) where there's more effect, since those people will actually pay more for the next accident.

Since this place is mostly GTA based, you'll probably get flamed for even saying it's not fair to have 3 accidents and still get full discount. they get screwed over so much they refuse to claim insurance.

Time to take advantage of it before the changes are in effect.

If you need some body work done, now is the time to cash in on your freebies.

bomber17 wrote: ↑ Since this place is mostly GTA based, you'll probably get flamed for even saying it's not fair to have 3 accidents and still get full discount. they get screwed over so much they refuse to claim insurance.

Its people in BC who get screwed with much higher rates than GTA drivers with fraction of coverage because this good drivers subsidize the poor ones in BC

Its only good for terrible drivers as they pay less due to subsidies from good drivers

ICBC rates are insanely high compared to GTA for good/low risk drivers

bomber17 wrote: ↑ Since this place is mostly GTA based, you'll probably get flamed for even saying it's not fair to have 3 accidents and still get full discount. they get screwed over so much they refuse to claim insurance.

If you get into at fault accident every 6 years. You shouldn't be driving period, time to take the transit.

These people flying into the pole on 401 and BC people flying into a river are inexcusable. Drive to the cobdition. BC people stikl think they are a 3 season province is sorta a joke. It goes near 2 degree and your all season tires becomes a hockey punk and car slide downhill even at full braking.

99Percenter wrote: ↑ Its people in BC who get screwed with much higher rates than GTA drivers with fraction of coverage because this good drivers subsidize the poor ones in BC

Its only good for terrible drivers as they pay less due to subsidies from good drivers

ICBC rates are insanely high compared to GTA for good/low risk drivers

You guys used to subsidize these rich visa students and their super cars in BC lol.

It's 7C in Vancouver today.

-16C in Toronto.

We are a 3 season city. I'll pay whatever premium is needed to stay here instead of living in an igloo.

spike1128 wrote: ↑ If you get into at fault accident every 6 years. You shouldn't be driving period, time to take the transit.

Silly reply. Not every accident claim is a result of driver error. If you live up in deer country you can't control when a deer jumps out in front of you. Go ahead and look at some videos on youtube of deer jumping in front of cars. It doesn't matter if you're a nascar driver - you won't be dodging those deer.

adamtheman wrote: ↑ Silly reply. Not every accident claim is a result of driver error. If you live up in deer country you can't control when a deer jumps out in front of you. Go ahead and look at some videos on youtube of deer jumping in front of cars. It doesn't matter if you're a nascar driver - you won't be dodging those deer.

Per a recent thread (in which the deer supposedly hit his car, not the other way around! ) this was confirmed to be a comprehensive claim, not an at-fault collision.

Good. ICBC has always struck me as having as being absurdly lenient to “experienced” drivers. At fault is at fault and drivers who cause accidents should pay for their cost to the insurance system sooner, not get 3 freebies. The worst driver I know has 5 at-faults in their life. Someone 60% as bad a driver as this person could still be at full discount.

I would like to see cost of insurance claim from accident also be a factor in how many steps you fall. A $3k fender bender ($1500 to both cars) shouldn’t be treated the same as a major accident. A few years at base rate for someone who causes $20k in repair costs would help recoup costs for the insurance system...

This move will obviously lower the likelihood of inexperienced drivers using their parents insurance to save money.
I wish "N" driving luxury vehicles gets charged 2-3X more, crazy that an econobox with 150HP saves only $300/year compared to a newer 350 HP performance car.

Let me get this straight.
Assuming you were at a CRS level of -20 currently.

With the new rules coming in you could make a claim on any body damage you've been neglecting, pay whatever deductible you have, be bumped down to CRS -17 and that would be no different than being CRS -20 after your next insurance renewal?
...cause my dad is at CRS 20 and he's hit quite a few parking poles over the years which he didn't want to claim.

99Percenter wrote: ↑ Its people in BC who get screwed with much higher rates than GTA drivers with fraction of coverage because this good drivers subsidize the poor ones in BC

Its only good for terrible drivers as they pay less due to subsidies from good drivers

ICBC rates are insanely high compared to GTA for good/low risk drivers

I don't know about Toronto, but when I moved from Victoria to Ottawa, my car insurance rates went up. At that time I had 35 years safe driving. ICBC rates weren't that bad.

adamtheman wrote: ↑ Silly reply. Not every accident claim is a result of driver error. If you live up in deer country you can't control when a deer jumps out in front of you. Go ahead and look at some videos on youtube of deer jumping in front of cars. It doesn't matter if you're a nascar driver - you won't be dodging those deer.

That's a good question. Doesn't that count as a not-at-fault accident, in which case it won't affect your position on the claims-rated-scale?

But it is really difficult to avoid being saddled with an at-fault accident if you drive in rush-hour traffic every day. The odds catch up with you. Twice I've had ICBC try to call me at fault for an accident, once for 50%, once for 100%, both times due to totally false reports from the lying scumbags who hit my car. If I hadn't put up a successful fight both times (once in small-claims court, once with an appeal adjudicator), I would have been tagged with an at-fault accident. Now I have a dashcam - just let someone try that again! But I have to be realistic - there have been enough times where I've made a driving mistake due to momentary inattention or carelessness where there was no accident because there didn't happen to be another car there to be hit. But that chance always exists. There's no way you can say that ICBC's moves don't matter to you because you're sure you will always be claim-free.

My experience with ICBC points out one of the reasons why they are losing so much money: their adjusters are under-trained, often incompetent, often adamantly stuck on their initial position when they should be reviewing the facts impartially. With a single government insurer, there's no back-and-forth between opposed adjusters to ensure thoroughness and fairness. Management rubber-stamps their decisions when they are supposed to be reviewing them before it costs the corporation more money. The ultimate idiocy is taking a case to court when it's open-and-shut that the corporation is in the wrong - that wastes a ton of money, not only for ICBC, but for the provincial court system.

I think this is dead... page link is gone. No changes after May 6.

http://www.icbc.com/autoplan/costs/Page ... costs.aspx

The provincial government has directed the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) and ICBC to not implement the changes to the Claim Rated Scale (CRS) that were announced last year, and were to take effect on May 6, 2018. Although the CRS changes previously announced will not be implemented, ICBC will continue to look at at-fault crashes within our broader rate design strategy to make rates more affordable.