Cheap Insurance may be no insurance
In the early 80's I bought the cheapest insurance I could find as I had no money and we have the highest insurance rates in the nation. Champion Insurance. Turns out the company was bankrupt and the insurance commissioner was covering that up. The insurance commissioner went to prison (what would the federal prison suppliers do without Louisiana politicians?) and many millions of claims were left unpaid. Guess who was personally liable for those claims? I was fortunate and had no accidents while I was covered by them but stopped shopping for low dollar insurance.
Insurance is just a contract and a contract is just a promise. Only as sound as the organization behind it. Been with Allstate over 30 years now and insurance on the Z was not disproportionately high compared to my Crown Vic that I was driving before--but still higher than if I lived some place where tort lawyers don't own the courthouse. I have had a couple of accidents and Allstate kept me out of the courthouse which is what I pay them for.
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