Score a “Mature Driver” Insurance Discount Smartmoney.com (blog)
Lured by insurance discounts, a growing number of older drivers are turning to online driving classes, as I reported on SmartMoney.com Monday . Older drivers who take one of these four-to-eight hour courses can often score anywhere from a 2 – 15% discount on their car insurance, depending on where they live. For the average driver, a 15% discount would result in roughly $120 per year in savings (and since the typical discount lasts for three years, they’d save $360 in total).
But not all older drivers are taking advantage of this little-known perk, despite the fact that classes typically only cost about $20. (Just 60,000 older drivers signed up for AARP’s online driving course last year, for example.) To that end, SmartMoney.com has put together a list of the states that mandate discounts on auto insurance for older drivers who take a driving course:
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and Wyoming.


