Var­i­ous fac­tors dri­ving up car insur­ance pre­mi­ums in Wash­ing­ton state

(The Cen­ter Square) – On the heels of a dou­ble-dig­it increase last year, Wash­ing­ton state dri­vers can expect to pay even more for auto insur­ance this year.
A report by per­son­al finance web­site Val­ue Pen­guin esti­mates Ever­green State motorists will see the sec­ond biggest increase in pre­mi­ums in the nation this year, at 18%.
“There are a cou­ple of rea­sons for this,” said Aaron Van­Tuyl, com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor with the Wash­ing­ton State Office of the Insur­ance Com­mis­sion­er. “The aver­age rate weight­ed rate increase was 24.7% in 2023 and it is high, but pri­or to that we had a 2.8% increase in 2022, and no change …