{"id":12,"date":"2021-07-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2021-08-08T21:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T03:54:01","slug":"car-insurance-basics-terms-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/car-insurance-basics-terms-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Insurance Basics: Terms You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Car insurance is one of those things that we&nbsp;pay very little attention to, until we need it. However, if we need it, that&nbsp;means we&#8217;ve been in an accident or something else negative has happened that is causing us to use our insurance, so it&#8217;s important that we understand some basic terms about insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, if you are looking to learn about car insurance terms in Quinlan, TX,&nbsp;the team at Slaughter Insurance Agency can tell you all the terminology that you need to know.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Claim<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; A claim is a request made by the policy holder to the insurance company to pay for damages incurred to a vehicle, for medical treatments or other costs related to the covered vehicle\/policy holder.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Collision Insurance<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; This coverage pays for damage to your vehicle in the event that it was in an accident (collision).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Comprehensive Insurance<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; This type of coverage pays for items that are not related to an accident. This can be anything from theft, to a fire or flood, or even a limb falling from a tree during a storm.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Deductible<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; This is the amount that you must pay before the insurance company will begin to pay towards your claims. For instance, if you get into a collision and your car sustains $5,000 in damage and you have a $500 deductible, your insurance will pay $4,500 towards the repairs.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Insured<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; The insured is also known as the policy holder. It is the drivers covered by the insurance policy.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Premium<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; A premium is how much your insurance costs. Premiums are&nbsp;paid either monthly, every six months or once a year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Call Slaughter Insurance Agency serving Quinlan, TX today and get all your car insurance questions answered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car insurance is one of those things that we&nbsp;pay very little attention to, until we need it. However, if we need it, that&nbsp;means we&#8217;ve been in an accident or something else negative has happened that is causing us to use our insurance, so it&#8217;s important that we understand some basic terms about insurance. Luckily, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-insurance","tag-quinlan-tx","tag-slaughter-insurance-agency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slaughterinsurancegroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}