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Geico deflects accountability to Lexis Nexis
I filled out an online form with Geico to request an auto insurance quote. A day later I got a cryptic email from Geico that information in my Lexis Nexis consumer credit report led to Geico increasing my insurance rate quote. After a VEEERY long, difficult time trying to get in touch with Lexis Nexis, I learned that my consumer credit report with them is spotless. No speeding tickets. No law enforcement problems. No negative issues at all. Yet Geico is sticking to their story that the increased auto insurance rate is due to "information we pulled from your Lexis Nexis consumer credit report." False. I've been with the same (other) insurance company for years now with an impeccable driving history--the same unmarred driving history I've had for over a decade. No tickets. No speeding. Yearly safe-driver course certification. I consented to the auto-plug-in device that monitors my driving moment by moment in order to circumvent these car insurance company shenanigans. The justification for these threats to consumer privacy (plug in devices also log your exact location...), the auto insurance industry told the US, is that these devices obviate the need for car insurance companies to take educated guesses about insurance applicants' driving safety through statistical links to credit reports... Instead, these plug in devices show EXACTLY how an individual consumer drives second-by-second over YEARS. THAT is real-time, granular driving safety/responsibility data. Yet still, Geico continues to claim that proxy data in consumers' files prompt rate increases--even when such data are absent in consumers' files! This financially predatory behavior should be investigated by states' attorneys general. And the kicker? Even Geico's BEST RATE offered was significantly higher than the six-month insurance rate my current company just renewed me for--with a discount for impeccable driving which their plug in monitoring device attests to.

