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GBW Insurance is a New Jersey agency which has been serving Bergen County since 1982. Call our local representative Dan "Bortie" Greco, in Ridgefield Park, at 201-463-5907. You can also call us at 1-800-548-2329. Continue on this page for information on home, car, flood, life, and business insurance for the Bergen County area, or click above for quick quotes.
Homeowners Insurance in Bergen County
How do insurance companies set property insurance prices?
1) Municipal property insurance rates are set largely by water supply and quality of fire department. Classes range from 1 for the best equipment, water supply, and paid full time fire fighters, to 10 (fire department more than 5 miles away, generally without reliable water supply). In some towns, classification is split. The portions of town with hydrants within 1,000 feet and the fire department within 5 miles could be, for example, protection class 5. Where the fire department is within 5 miles but the houses are not within 1,000 feet of a hydrant, the area would usually be protection class 9. The rates would be significantly different. With that exception, Bergen County towns generally have excellent fire protection.
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2) Insurance companies contribute information on losses at a specific location to the Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange (CLUE). So all insurance companies have access to insurance loss information from a property in any town in Bergen County. When you have a loss, all insurance companies will be able to see it, probably for five years.
3) Insurance companies also review facts about home owners and apply those as credits and debits against the price for home insurance.
4) The condition of a building can make a real difference in how easily you can find insurance. A roof in poor condition, old wiring, leaky plumbing, and so on can make it difficult, expensive, or even impossible to get insurance.
How do insurance companies set auto insurance prices?
1) Auto insurance rates for an area are affected by accident frequency and severity, car theft frequency, law suit frequency, and other factors. Bergen County car insurance rates are affected by traffic density, law suit frequency, car theft rates, and so on. For more information, call us at 973-426-1500 or click here to go to our Car insurance information and quote page.
2) In addition to the level of losses in the area where the car is garaged, car insurance rates also reflect the value and kind of car you drive. Obviously a $75,000 car costs more to repair than does the same damage to a $25,000 car.
3) Then insurance companies include factors for the distance driven or the use of the car, and finally other factors for the age and behavior of the driver. And of course frequent tickets or accidents lead to higher rates. All together, these have have more impact than location or type of car. If you were new driver, male, with some tickets, driving an expensive car, you would pay much more than an experienced female driver without tickets and a less expensive care. (Young drivers have more accidents than older drivers per mile driven and young men have more accidents than even young women.)
Flood Insurance
Availability of flood insurance depends on whether a town participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Most towns in Bergen County do, so businesses and individuals can apply for NFIP flood coverage. As recent flooding has shown, you can have a serious flood insurance loss without being in a traditional flood zone. And the price for flood insurance outside the active flood zones is much lower than the same coverage in the zone. Call us for details at 1-800-548-2329 or click here to go to our Flood Insurance page.
Life Insurance
Bergen County residents' life insurance rates and quotes are affected by health, age, smoking and not smoking, driving habits, and other behaviors. But they are the same as for all of New Jersey. Since women live longer than men, they pay less for life insurance (everything else being equal). For more information, or a free quote, go to our Life Insurance page by clicking here.
Or if you're a new parent, click here for specialized information. We will give you a quick quote but please discuss your needs with us. Life insurance is much too important to take a chance of getting it wrong.
Business Insurance
Click here to go to our Business Owners Insurance page. The Business Owners Policy or BOP is a package of coverage for small and mid-size businesses. Business insurance in New Jersey requires careful choices and careful selections. Business insurance can include Workers Compensation, liability, property, commercial vehicles, professional liability, business interruption, flood, and many more insurance coverages. It must be carefully reviewed with you to make sure you have the right insurance to protect your business. If we work with you, we can get you all the discounts you deserve.
You work hard to succeed, we work hard to protect you. For more general information on Business Insurance in Bergen County, or to start a quick quote, click here.
If you have a business in Bergen County and would like more information about our insurance agency, click here.
