What this means is your insurance will pay out a maximum of $20,000 to any one individual for medical expenses which result from an accident with your vehicle. It will pay a maximum of $40,000 in medical expenses for everyone involved in an accident with your vehicle regardless of how many people are hurt or what the extent of their injuries are. Finally the insurance will pay a maximum of $10,000 in property damage for any accident. Property damage generally means repairing the other person's vehicle, but property damage can include other property as well.
Two things make this insurance risky. First, this insurance pays ZERO for your medical bills and ZERO toward the medical bills of anyone in your vehicle at the time of an accident. Also this insurance pays ZERO toward the repair of your vehicle.
Secondly - and possibly more importantly - the maximum payout of a basic liability policy is not necessarily enough to cover the actual medical expenses or property damage which could easily result from an accident. If the insurance fails to pay all of the medical or property damage expenses of the other party you could be held personally responsible for paying the remainder out of your own purse or pocket.
This could, conceivably, result in you losing your life savings or even being forced to sell your home in order to make payments.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
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