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Independent Richmond insurance brokerage on Westminster Highway near No. 3 Road, handling ICBC Autoplan, private auto, home and commercial policies. Small enough that you deal with the same broker each renewal rather than a rotating call center queue.
Bring your current policy documents and your driver's license, and know roughly how far you drive in a year. The questions are the same at every brokerage, and having the answers ready turns a thirty-minute visit into ten. Autoplan renewal remains one of the few errands that still requires sitting across from a human being, which is why every Richmond driver ends up with a broker they either trust or resent.
An independent brokerage places business with more than one insurer, and that matters most on the optional coverage stacked on top of a basic ICBC policy. The price differences there are real, and almost nobody shops them, because comparing is tedious and the renewal notice always arrives at a busy moment. Asking directly for a comparison is the entire benefit of using a broker rather than a single-company office.
This office on Westminster Highway near No. 3 Road handles Autoplan alongside private auto, home and commercial policies. The commercial side deserves flagging for anyone running a small business out of Richmond, because general liability and a properly built contents schedule are the sort of thing people postpone until a claim makes them urgent. A central address is more useful for insurance than for most trades, since you want it near places you already drive to. Westminster Highway at No. 3 Road puts you beside City Centre, the mall and Brighouse station, so the errand folds into a trip you were making anyway.
In the City Centre neighbourhood of Richmond.
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