Intact Insurance Auto Insurance Reviews

I have a twin who lives in the same area. We have the same driving record, drive the same (exact) make/model vehicle (though his is 3 years newer). Intact charged me 2 1/2 times what he was paying (I pay yearly, he pays monthly). When I shopped around I found that I was not only paying a lot more for insurance but was also not allotted discounts (Hybrid, snow tires, good driving record, low mileage...). The next highest quote was 1/2 what Intact was charging me. The next was what my brother was paying and the fourth was 1/4 (with the requirement that I install a driving gizmo to monitor driving). Don't go with Intact until you shop around!

Glad to see I'm not crazy, I got a 20% discount on a 1500$ car insurance, which my courtier assured me was the cheapest I could get, as long as I was registered to the MyDrive app, been trying to get it to work since I got it but to no avail.
Now they are saying that since we haven't successfully logged a drive that they want us to pay them the 20% back, which is hilarious and terribly suspicious on their part.
The discount was conditional on being registered to the App, not logging a drive.

Incredible to see how far they take their scams and lies.

Filing a report to Consumer Protection asap, no way I'm letting them get away with more of my money.

This company is a joke. The MyDrive discounts is a scam. They say 20% discount and they only give 1 fourth of it because they calculate it as they wish. !0 years of clean record, zero accidents, zero speed tickets etc and my insurance keeps going up. My car's value is 8k and I am paying half the value of the car annually for this terrible company. I tried to get rid of all comprehensive etc and it only makes 40$ difference which means they are dedicated to screw people. I got many quotes with less than 170$ and I don't have to pay double that for this scam company. Can't wait for august.

PLEASE BEWARE, USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK. A broker recommended intact insurance due to the quote. We decided to go ahead with it. Intact left file pending for a good couple weeks. 4 times I went to Service Ontario to obtain a sticker renewal and I was not able to. The broker contacted Intact several times and they had excuses. Finally, they resolved it due to leaving my file pending. It was until after the first month we noticed an increase. They said oh you cannot get winter tire discount. I said why I have winters for all my vehicles. Then they said you have to have a receipt. So I went and purchased brand new winter tires. Provided them with the receipt and still, it was enough for them to give me the discount. They would not take pictures of cars or anything. Then the second month we noticed an additional increase. I contacted the broker again. The broker contacted them and they came back to say that the monthly increases were because I am supposed to have an app on my phone. I said for what. They want to monitor your driving, how often you brake, where are you going, how fast you drive etc.. I said I never authorized any of that. Even at the beginning of when we got the policy, I said no to that. So their excuse was they increased me because I didn't want the app. my policy, by the way, jumped 150dollars a month more to almost 500 dollars. After several months of all of that, we decided to cancel them and go with another person where we are saving 200 dollars a month. It is illegal for an insurance company to increase your rates without notification.

I have been very happy with Intact 'till this summer when they offered me a chance to lower my car insurance. I just plugged a device into my car and it monitored my driving. Everything went well until we started leaving one car in our garage while we spent many weeks and months at our cottage. We kept getting emails telling us to plug our car device in. I finally called explaining what was happening. They said the car had to be driven. Soooo, I had to get my daughter to drive the car out of the garage, around the block and park it every week so our discount would not be lowered. What a joke!!!! On top of this when the car sits for a week or two, they lower my discount amount available. What is the logic in this? I called My discount and they tell me to call my broker. I call the broker and he tells me to call My discount. This is useless. It has caused me more hassle than the money I can save. Do not use My Drivers discount unless you will be driving your vehicle all the time.

20 years with no claims with Intact and my insurance is $70 higher than all other insurance companies I have been quoted by recently. You would think that with a loyal customer for 20 years, a clean driving record, the rates would be lowered. Not a chance. So I ask how to get reduced. I have the My driving discount device installed for the past 7 weeks. I drive very well and they dock you if you accelerate at 12km per hour, or break at 13km per hour. Even worse, if you drive home and hit 12:02 am when you pull up from work. So the possible 25% that they say a driver would get, lie. So 7 weeks and I am down to 13% and they think I want to keep this in there. Every week the percent drops, even if it's at 12km per hour. Like seriously, HAS ANY OF THEM ACTUALLY DRIVEN WITH IT PROPERLY TO FIND THAT THE LOW SPEED CAN BECOME DANGEROUS??? I can't turn a corner without feeling like a 100-year-old driver, who should be off the road. I get usually 2 docks a week and they are minimal at 12 or 13km. Yet in 7 weeks. YES, 7 WEEKS, I am already down to 13%. This March you have lost a 20-year loyal customer. NO MORE WILL I DEAL WITH YOU. NO RENEWAL.

Enrolled in my driving discount and it is a complete joke. I have no data on my phone as I cannot afford it and I was ensured that the device would be a reliable way to track my driving. I have now gone through 3 devices that have been 'dead'. Upon calling tech support I was finally told after 5 months of fighting with my device, my vehicle was incompatible. Seriously? This should not be an issue due to the variety of vehicles on the road. There are so many different vehicles of different makes, models etc. you should not have this issue with this sort of device. The tech support kept telling me "well, it is a voluntary program.." - well, duh. I enrolled for cheaper insurance! That is what your company promised me. That is why I switched insurance brokers in the first place! Not to mention with my other insurance company I was with Intact as well and they were charging me 200 something a month for my insurance. I went to my new company who put me through Intact. Intact charges me 194...173 with enrollment with my driving discount. Of course, I'm going to enroll, it's cheaper. So they hook you with that promise then screw you over.

DO NOT GO WITH INTACT. I wish I had read the reviews before signing up. A week of "My Driving Discount" and I was out. The app is ridiculously stupid and clearly set up to take your money regardless of the quality of your driving. I tried to cancel my Intact policy over a month ago, and they have had me jumping through hoops to get my refund ever since. The latest update? I was sent a letter saying "your refund will be processed upon clearance of your last payment". What does that even mean? I paid Debit in full over a month ago. This entire experience has been an absolute NIGHTMARE. To summarize: DO NOT GO WITH INTACT.

INTACT is a terrible insurance company and is causing me grief as I write this. They are not quick to act on correcting their mistakes. I happened to log in online after they announced they were going paperless and I noted that there was a place you check claims. Under claims I noticed one from 2016 that is FALSE and I NEVER made. I have been at least two weeks with this between the broker and INTACT trying to get them to fix it. What happened was I called in with a hypothetical question and NOT - I REPEAT - NOT a claim. The person who entered the claim no longer works for INTACT and no money was paid out, obviously, but I am shown at 100% liability. To me, this is fraud and should have been corrected IMMEDIATELY. Instead, the claims manager stated she would investigate and made no promises. The best she could do was to change the 100% at fault over to 0%. This is ludicrous. While my driving record is a 9 (highest rated) if I was to join a different insurer, this claim would then count against me. Not only that but INTACT could not even tell me if this claim HAS affected my policy or not and this is something they need to consult underwriting for. Furthermore, I was bounced back and forth between the broker and INTACT, each one telling me to contact the other. I also had a windshield replaced years ago and apparently, this shows up as a claim. Unfortunately, I trust Carnaghan Taylor Insurance when they told me it was NOT a claim and that it would have ZERO impact on my insurance while this is not true at all. To add even more frustration, INTACT decided to offer this telematics program, where you receive some plug-in device for your vehicle, which monitors some of your driving habits, and as a result, you receive a discount. Well, back in August (we are now at the end of October) I renewed my policy and was adamant with the broker I absolutely did NOT want to be enrolled. I have zero interest in an insurance company monitoring what time of day I drive etc. This is truly Orwellian and I want none of it. So I was surprised to see an added charge of $177 to my policy in October this year. It took a week to find out from the broker that this was added back into my policy since I never enrolled into the tracking program. The problem is...I never enrolled. I spoke to the broker again the following week and they advised I asked to be signed up (enrolled) which is 100% FALSE. I relayed this information back to INTACT and they advised there may be nothing that can be done. I will take this matter to court if need be. The broker first stated that I requested to be signed up then later in the same conversation stated that INTACT automatically enrolls their clients and then when the client doesn't enroll after so many weeks, they automatically lose the discount. I never received the device, I never signed or authorized any enrollment, and I agreed to a binding policy agreement and nowhere in that do I see any mention of this program being applied. I am furious that I could have easily missed this information and furious that either the broker or the insurance company didn't immediately make things right with me. Well, if they want to make me wait on their clock, then I am going to make sure I expose this and do an investigation of my own!

This app sounds appealing as a record of event-free driving could result in a discount on premiums. Instead, the app is unreliable recording events that didn’t happen. The tendency is to drive to the app rather than to actual road conditions. It’s frankly a dangerous app when the incentive is a discount for not breaking rapidly when conditions warrant it or not, accelerating to avoid a situation as either of those responses results in a reduction in possible discount. To prevent being penalized for responding to traffic conditions, the user simply says they are a passenger. Yet optimal driving conditions still register phantom hard breaks or accelerations. Intact has made a poor choice in predicting a discount on an unreliable app.