The Different Types of motorist insurance
October 11th, 2009 by Gordon MayWhen it comes to driving there is nothing more important than making sure that you have motorist insurance. Not only does this protect you and everyone else on the road, it is also illegal to drive without in most places. In order to buy insurance however, you will need to know about the different types available so you can make the right decision.
In order to help you make this decision, let’s look over a few of the more common types of motorist insurance:
Bodily Injury Liability: This is a type of motorist insurance that will help pay for injuries to other people when you are held responsible for an accident. The best part is that it will pay for your defense in court, meaning one less expense you have to worry about.
Collision: This will pay the cash value of your vehicle, whatever it happens to be. If you are financing your vehicle, you might be required to at least have this type of insurance. After all, the company needs to get their money back if you destroy the car!
Medical: This type of motorist insurance will pay for the medical expenses incurred during a vehicle collision or other type of vehicle accident. Remember that it will only pay reasonable expenses, but it would be up to the insurance company to decide what ‘reasonable’ is.
Full Tort: If you have this type of insurance you will have the right to sue the negligent individual after an accident. Pressing charges will allow you to recover anything you want.
Property Damage Liability: This will help to take care of the bill in the event that you are legally responsible for damaging property. This includes driving through someone’s house or colliding with another vehicle.
Uninsured Motorist: This type of motorist insurance will help to pay for the damaged caused by an uninsured driver. It is almost essential to have this type of insurance because many people are uninsured these days.
Towing: One of the hardest parts of an accident is actually moving your vehicle to another location. Are you able to do so with relative ease? If not then you might want to consider this type of motorist insurance, as it w ill help you get your vehicle out of the street and into the shop.
As you can see, there are a number of different types of motorist insurance out there for you to choose from. These types of insurance will help you to keep yourself covered in the event that anything does happen to go wrong on the open road. Hopefully nothing will ever happen, but it does help to have motorist insurance when you are pulled over by that meddling highway patrolman. So make sure you have that motorist insurance, after all, better safe than sorry.