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Insurance coverage plans.

With regard to insurance coverage levels, there are several different categories of car insurance. In general, auto insurance can cover the insured party, the insured party’s vehicle and third parties (including cars and people). Coverage plans are logically connected to the type of coverage the insured party purchases. Usually, the risk covered is associated with the price of the service offered by insurance companies.

Liability coverage

Generally, liability insurance covers claims against the insured person and any other driver of the insured vehicles, provided that they do not share the same place of residence. However, in case the insured person and the other operator of the car are living at the same address, they must specifically be covered on the policy. Therefore, it makes it necessary when a family member comes of driving age that they are added to the policy. Sometimes liability insurance does not protect the insured person if they operate any vehicles other than their own. However, when a policy holder drives a vehicle owned by another person, they are covered under that other person’s policy. Liability coverage is generally extended when the insured person rents a car. Liability coverage is also offered for bodily injury and for property damage for which the policy holder is responsible. The amount of coverage is a fixed dollar sum, which can be extended for an additional charge.

There is an option to split the coverage or to get a combined policy which covers both bodily injury and property damage. The split coverage type is called Split limits policy. To illustrate the type of policy, an example can be given: when the insured driver strikes another vehicle and injures the driver and the passenger, payments for the other driver’s vehicle would be paid out under property damage coverage, and payments for the injuries would be paid out under bodily injury coverage. In the same situation, if the policy holder has a Combined Single Limit policy, both payments for the damaged property and for bodily injury would be paid under the same combined policy.

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