AZ Auto Insurance Is A Total Must

By Lynn Hughes

In every state the law requires drivers to have car insurance. Some of the states require more insurance than other states do, but Arizona has an insurance or financial responsibility law. One of the expenses of driving a vehicle is the expense of insurance.

If you are stopped by the police and are without insurance on your car, the law in some states allows the police to confiscate your license plates and to cancel the registration of your vehicle. Other states allow for you be fined and require you to show proof to the courts that you have insurance. You may have to pay more for insurance if the company has to file state paper work for you.

However fines and confiscated license plates are minor when compared to the cost incurred if you are involve in an accident without insurance.

Some states have laws that place financial responsibility of an accident on the driver without insurance. Even without those laws you could be financially responsible if you are at fault in the accident. Medical and property losses can be very large in even a small accident when you are paying out of pocket.

In addition to the loss of your own vehicle, you may be responsible for the damage you cause to the other vehicles involved in the accident. With new vehicles averaging over twenty thousand dollars today, the expenses can add quickly.

You will also have to pay hospital bills for anyone injured in the accident. A minimum emergency room visit is three thousand dollars and intensive care can cost three thousand dollars every day. Add the costs of surgery and you could easily be responsible for thirty thousand dollars per person involved in the accident. These costs can break you financially.

Even though you are a safe driver, it only takes a small distraction and you can be involved in an accident. These distractions that cause accidents have cost drivers without insurance their financial security and some have had to file for bankruptcy protection.

Perhaps you have heard the expression penny wise but pound foolish. That is exactly what driving without insurance is like. Insurance for most drivers cost less than one-hundred dollars per month. The money that is saved by not having insurance, however, can end up costing thousands of dollars. - 29971

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