A drunken driving conviction will cause your insurance rates to jump sky high whether or not the accident resulted in injury or death. Insurance companies will raise your rates when you are convicted with a DUI because you become a liability to insure when on the roadways. Dangerous drivers or repeat offenders are riskier to insure, which causes insurance companies to raise rates.The Insurance Information Institute estimates that one person dies every 29 minutes as a result of a drunken driving accident. Driving under the influence can cause serious bodily harm to yourself, passengers in your car, people in other cars and can even result in death. As you begin to shop around for a new policy you now have two asterisks on your record; a DUI conviction and a cancelled policy. Both of these a