With the high costs of auto repairs and medical bills, your injuries might not be fully
covered by the negligent driver's policy.
Not exact matches
Unless the
negligent driver has substantial assets to
cover the injuries caused
by the accident, many times the biggest question for serious car accidents or New Mexico wrongful death cases, is what is the available limits of insurance.
Typically, most automobile claims are
covered by the insurance of the
negligent driver and owner of the vehicle.
While some law firms settle personal injury and automobile accident cases as quickly as possible — knowing full well that the money will not
cover the person's losses or future needs — our experienced trial lawyers are not afraid to take
negligent drivers and insurance companies to court, especially for serious or permanent injuries caused
by car wrecks and truck accidents.
Uninsured / Underinsured Motorist Bodily Injury (UM / UIMBI): whenever you are hurt in an accident caused
by an uninsured
driver in Rhode Island, your UM / UIMBI
covers your medical costs, which should have been paid out
by the
negligent driver's insurer if he or she had any.
Uninsured motorist property damage (UMPD)
covers your auto when property damage is sustained
by an insured
driver and the
negligent driver does not have insurance.
For bodily injury, the state mandates at least $ 50,000 for the injury or death of one person victimized
by a
negligent covered driver in an accident.
Underinsured motorist coverage protects you as a
covered policy holder from having to personally take care of the costs ordinarily paid
by the other party in cases when you get into an accident and the
negligent driver has no insurance.
Uninsured motorist protection provides coverage for the expenses that normally would be
covered by the other
driver in cases when you get into an accident that the other
driver is responsible for but where the
negligent driver does not have any auto insurance.
Uninsured and underinsured policies provide the coverage that
covers expenses normally taken care of
by the at fault
driver in situations where that
driver does not carry any automobile liability insurance at the time of the accident, or the insurance policy of the
negligent driver is not enough to handle all expenses.
You may need to purchase bodily injury coverage separately from property damage coverage if you want to make sure that both your medical bills as well as any damage to your vehicle would both be
covered if you were hit
by a
negligent driver without insurance or without enough to
cover your damages.
The third and final part
covers property damages caused
by the
negligent (
covered)
driver aside from damage to his or her own car.