The introduction of electronic coverage confirmation (eVB) for car insurance has a lot easier. Above all, the bureaucratic ways have been significantly reduced. The previous dual card, the re-registration of a vehicle provided, is now passé.
After the confirmation of an existing car insurance is now in the form of a seven-digit number - the so-called VB-point - where. If you have a car insurance terminate get the
VB code within the shortest time electronically. Long waits on postal certificates in paper form are history. When submitting the eVB at the respective accreditation body, it can then all relevant information from a central database to read out.
Credit check made easy
But the ease of access to confidential data has also disadvantages. For auto insurance, it is much easier since a credit check performed. By eVB to private information, such as the name of the potential customer or address, be reviewed. Unwanted customer, where the probability is relatively high, but that payment difficulties could be so simple can be rejected.
This does not apply to motor vehicle liability insurance. In this form of insurance, the insurance companies be required to provide the customer record, because it is a statutory insurance form. The only insurance the insurer may choose their clients.
But it is precisely in times of cyclical cash injections scrapping attracts many new customers, so the demand especially in matters of insurance policies is very significant. Insurance experts recommend that the all-round protection for your car primarily for new cars and years.
Consumer protection are concerned
Conservationists warn consumers against the growing credit checks in this area. While insurers could in that way easier to decide what customers to enter into a contract or not - but only at the expense of consumer rights. One thinks that this principle consistently, it could easily lead to a large number of consumers is no longer possible to have a CDW insurance.
Currently, the customer is still the choice. Who with a credit check is not satisfied, you can simply choose another provider. The offer is large and accordingly, there are numerous insurance providers, to such a test per se abandon - only to compare it to so.