Allstate’s acquisition of Answer Financial and Esurance reflects a change in consumer insurance shopping habits

Allstate Insurance has announced that it has acquired Answer Financial and Esurance, which underlines the continuing changes in the way that consumers shop for their auto insurance. According to Online Auto Insurance (OAI), it also illustrates a number of opportunities that have arisen from these changes so that insurers. An increasing number of consumers in the United States have been buying their auto insurance policies directly from the insurers through their websites, as opposed to speaking with an agent. This trend has led some of the larger insurance companies, such…

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