Public_Tension8585 t1_ixj95tb wrote
Reply to comment by il_biciclista in The 17 victims of the Hingham Apple Store crash might have to share a $40,000 insurance payout. by il_biciclista
A good start would be requiring the minimum to be 50/100. While Mass is 20/40, the vast majority of states are only 25/50, so it's not like we're way under par. The reason for 50/100/50 (last one being property damage) would be due to the HCOL, types of vehicles, etc. Hit someone in Mass and chances are you're going to be in more financial trouble than hitting someone in Tennessee, even though Ten is 25/50.
> don't have access to the tools that you had. Instead, I did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation that indicates that carrying $8 Million of liability per victim should lead to less than a $2,000 increase in premiums for the average driver. ($8 Million per death times 40,000 deaths divided by 200 Million drivers).
Even if this actually only raised premiums by $2k, it doesn't sound realistic from the perspective of the insurance companies. Not to mention the amount of fraud it would encourage.
I'm not sure how accurate this is, but back at my old agency I heard that insurance companies run on razor thin margins, majority of the money they make is from the interest they make.
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