Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Auto Insurance in the United States



Here we discuss about the auto insurance in the United States, so, as you know that the insurance is designed to cover the risk of financial liability, or in case of total loss of motor vehicle, or the car is involved in the collision that makes the damages to property.

It is interesting to know that in the some states of U.S, they require the owner of motor vehicle to carry out some minimum level of the insurance liability. Those states that do not require the owner of vehicle to take the car insurance, it includes Virginia,



Virginia is a state where the fee of an uninsured motor vehicle may be paid to the state, New Hampshire and Mississippi; these offer the option to vehicle owners to post the cash bonds.

As you know the owner of vehicle typically pays to insurance a type of monthly fee that is often known as the insurance premium.

The auto insurance premium which a motor vehicle owner normally pays, depends on the variety of factors, such as the age and gender of the insured vehicle, the driver’s history and also the location and the route at which the vehicle is driven and also the location where the vehicle is stored. Most of the insurance companies also offer discount based on these factors.

As you know in the United States the auto insurance companies provide the owner of motor vehicle with a card, known as insurance card, that have particular time duration, and which should be kept as a proof in the vehicle at the time of collision. That, this vehicle is insured by following company.



The technology is improving day by day and now the states have started the electronic version of insurance to check out proof of insurance immediately, and this electronic version can now be accepted by the authorities.

In the United States as you know the auto insurance for the injuries and also for property damage is very compulsory is most of the states, but different states have different laws, like Virginia, as we mentioned above that, in Virginia the insurance is not a compulsory part, the residents of Virginia must pay $500 as annual fee per vehicle, if they choose that they will not buy the liability insurance.

New Jersey and California have passed the law of “Personal Responsibility Acts”, due to which it put the more pressure on all the drivers to carry the liability of insurance by preventing the drivers who are not insured, they prevent from the recovery of non economic damages, the damages which includes compensation for suffering and pain. If the drivers got injury while operating the vehicle.

North Carolina is only the state that before the issuance of license to driver requires holding the auto insurance liability. Some states require that all the drivers should keep the insurance card in their vehicles.

This is interesting to know that some states do not require to keep the auto insurance in vehicle, such as North Carolina, does not specify the proof of insurance card in the vehicle.

Some of the states also require that the electronic auto insurance card should be produced on smart phone at the time of accident.




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