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Police and car insurers to couple computer systems

Mon, Jan 11 2010 12:52 CET

byRene Beekman

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Police and car insurers to couple computer systems

 
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Drivers with a history of causing accidents will face higher insurance premiums, Bulgarian-language daily Standart said on January 11 2010.

After June 1, the computer systems of Bulgaria's traffic police and the Guarantee Fund, a national insurer database, will be linked. As a result, the police will be able to spot immediately if a car has Motor Third Party Liability Insurance, Standart said.

New insurances would be added to the system at the time premiums are taken out, so the system would be up to date and backdating insurances would no longer be possible, Standart quoted Lev Ins managing director Stefan Sofianski as saying.

Traffic police had complained before that it is impossible to fine motorists found driving without the required insurance papers on them, as they would take out an insurance policy and backdate it.

The new system would allow the introduction of a bonus-malus system. Insurance companies would be able to check the driving records of applicants for insurances. Those with a clean record would be ineligible for discounts, while those who had caused traffic accidents in the past would face increased insurance premiums, Standart said.

A working group currently investigated best practices in bonus-malus systems to see which system would be most appropriate in the Bulgarian context.

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Anonymous Vincent Mon, Jan 11 2010 22:08 CET
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... finally .

Anonymous Oak` Mon, Jan 11 2010 19:15 CET
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good

Anonymous blighty Mon, Jan 11 2010 13:58 CET
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Very good news. Long overdue.


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