Why its good news a Florida teen driver adds 69% to insurance bill

Add a teen driver to your Florida household, and the insurance bill goes up 69 percent, a new study finds. And that’s the good news.

While that might not sound like a reason to turn cartwheels, exactly, it’s an improvement. Last year Florida’s average increase was 82 percent and above the national norm.

Now Florida falls among the 10 states with the lowest teen-driven increases, according to insuranceQuotes.com, affiliated with bankrate.com of North Palm Beach.

The main lesson is apparently do not have a teenager who wants to drive in Rhode Island. Increase there: 153 percent. Teens in Hawaii move the needle the least, 8 percent. Hawaii restricts what insurers can charge by age.

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