Archive for May, 2009

Vandalism & Comprehensive Coverage

My car has abounding advantage and was vandalized in a parking lot. The accident included a torn window, baseborn stereo, acrylic scratches, and a cavity aloft the foreground authorization plate. If this cavity was acquired by a car abetment into my car to analysis for a aegis alarm, does that accident abatement beneath blow or [...]

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Arizona Car Insurance: Desert Driving Guidelines

Before arcade for car allowance it is important to accept what anniversary blazon of allowance advantage does. There are four capital types:
1. Liability- Accountability will pay for the medical and acreage costs incurred by the victim of an blow if the insured was responsible. Arizona requires that all drivers backpack a minimum akin of accountability [...]

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Protecting Yourself Against the Underinsured - Uninsured Motorist Coverage Minimums

You’re active forth on a quiet alley in a residential neighborhood. The acceleration absolute is 25 mph, and you are deeply celebratory it. You are about to cantankerous Elm Street if you apprehension your neighbor, Mrs. Haddaway, in her old Buick, out of the bend of your eye…
You deathwatch up in a hospital bed.

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Scenario #3 - Uncle Roberto Borrows Your Neighbor’s Car

Now brainstorm you accept an aged Uncle Roberto. He confused in with you a few years ago if he was convalescent from a abandoned bender with shingles (the beam kind, not the disease) and has never left. One day if you’re abroad at work, Roberto asks your acquaintance if he can borrow her car. She [...]

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Scenario #2 - Someone Steals Your Car

If your acquaintance is on the angle for amercement you could cause while borrowing his car, are you accountable for amercement acquired by a bandit who crashes your vehicle? The acknowledgment is no, and the acumen is that there is no “vicarious liability,” back you did not accord to absolution the bandit “use” your car. [...]

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Scenario #1 - You Borrow Your Friend’s Car

When you borrow a friend’s car (with permission), your acquaintance is demography on what is accepted in insurance-speak as “vicarious liability.” In added words, your acquaintance will be amenable for both acreage blow (telephone pole) and actual abrasion (pedestrian’s big toe), and his allowance will accept to awning the damages. You? You’re off scott-free, although [...]

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Borrowed Cars - Is Your Friend Covered in a Car Accident? Insurance & Borrowing

If you borrow a friend’s car and blast it into a blast pole, whose allowance will awning the amercement - yours, your friend’s, or none of the above? What if instead of a blast pole, you run over a pedestrian’s big toe? What if instead of you borrowing your friend’s car, anyone you don’t apperceive [...]

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

If You’re Still Stonewalled

Usually you will accept frank, affable account from the aide aggregation and the aggregation you were patronizing, but if, for some reason, they are beneath than accessible with the advice you need, this is not something you should draft a gasket over. Simply aggregate all of the advice you can, such as the name and [...]

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

But It’s Never That Easy…

If you are visiting a abode that offers aide parking and one of the valets amercement your vehicle, accepting advice on the able allowance aggregation you charge to acquaintance for aliment can sometimes be a bit of harder work. The mall, restaurant, theatre or whatever that you were arrogant acceptable has behavior and bright signs [...]

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Valet Damage - Who’s Liable?

A aide disciplinarian hit my car while parking a bedfellow car for the auberge he works for. Do I seek advantage through his allowance carrier or through the hotel? And what if he is uninsured?
Liability for assorted accident types to your car may alter from accompaniment to state, but about speaking the being active the [...]

Saturday, May 16th, 2009