You have purchased a brand new or premium used car. It is yours fair and square. You can drive it down the road with a license plate on. Yet you have got to obtain valid auto insurance. Welcome to life and the responsibilities of a motorist on the road and highway. What is it all about? After all some states say you cannot drive at all without insurance whereas others you let you drive with no insurance. What is the deal?

First of all for basics – what is insurance to begin with and in this case especially “auto insurance”? It can be said that insurance is a way of protecting yourself. It keeps you from having to pay big bills. It keeps other people from suing you – well that is in theory so to say.

Suppose for example that there are 1,000 people who own boats. None of these individual persons wants to lose their boat, of course. Yet boats and sailing vessels do have accidents. Some of the time they sink. So each boat owner pays a small amount to an insurance company. It might be referred to as “spreading around (or diluting) the risk or risk factors”. Now if anything happens to someone’s boat, the insurance company will fix it. If a boat sinks, the company will buy a new one. Interestingly auto, home and boat insurance are sold by “insurance companies”. Accidents need to be insured against.
However life insurance is sold by “assurance agencies”. You can be assured as truism in life that at some point you life is going to end and that you are “assured of it”. Hence “assurance company” rather than insurances.

The firm or firms involved make money because nothing happens to most of the boat. Insurance companies insure houses and all kings of things as well as cars.

Did your rich aunt give you a $ 100,000 Cadillac vehicle or Chrysler Viper sports car or even cars? Well if misfortune arose and a tree fell on it, out of the blue. Could you afford from pocket change or your bank accounts buy a new one – or even obtain an auto finance loan? Probably not. So you insure against such losses, accidents and events.

The next question to arises is ‘after what kind of insurance and how much of it should you carry? Now , that you can buy auto insurance coverage for different kinds of things , and events the question is what coverage, how much and what will the out of pocket costs be to you or your family or business budget ? The answers are of course individual and personal depending on your auto insurance coverage needs, risk factors and of course financial resources and budget as well as personal circumstances.

Don’t forget that it’s a fact of life that different groups pay differently depending on industry risk assessment factors and your personal driving history and accident reports as well. It used to be that the highest assessed risk group was young men. Young men it seems have a well known historical tendency of liking speed and fast cars and living. Be male and under 25 and pay high premiums. Interestingly now , its not only young men in our era who seemed to have earned this badge and label but also similarly aged young women. Welcome to life in 2010 / 2011 our modern era and signs of the times.

The basic areas of auto insurance coverage and optional coverage to assess with an idea to purchase include – bodily injury insurance. property damage insurance, uninsured motorist insurance, medical payments insurance, the basis of it all auto collision insurance, important liability and personal liability coverage and lastly “comprehensive insurance” that provides coverage in the event that your vehicle – be it car, truck or Sports Utility Vehicle SUC catches fire or is stole and as well covers most other events that can directly occur to your vehicle besides collision damage and damages.

And you thought your responsibility of auto ownership ending after purchasing your vehicle from a dealer or privately, signing auto finance and license papers only. Lots of luck. Welcome to auto ownership son or young lady.

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