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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Car Insurance Laws
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 14:11 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- > 2) are there forms of insurance for only occasional driving
- > (i.e. say you only drive about 2 weeks out of a year?)
-
- I think perhaps we need a more exact description of your driving scenario.
- Some possibilities:
-
- * You only drive when you are borrowing a car (e.g., your parents' car
- when you are home from college). If it's always the same person's
- car, you might give them a little reimbursement for upgrading their
- insurance to cover anyone who may drive the car. (Their policy may
- do this anyhow; read the fine print and/or call the agent.)
-
- * You drive only two weeks cumulatively in little dribs and drabs
- (e.g., you're a dedicated bicycle commuter who mostly leaves the
- car in the driveway). Talk to your insurance agent about their
- low-mileage rates. I get a cut rate for driving less than 9000
- miles a year from Allstate, insofar as an urban Californian's
- rates can be described as "cut." They accepted this on my written
- word plus an odometer reading; my agent supplied the form. From time
- to time I am asked to supply, on my honor, a new odometer reading.
- Presumably if I lied and had a reportable accident, the claims
- adjuster would look at the odometer, one computer would talk to
- another, and I'd find myself up the creek without the proverbial paddle.
-
- * You only drive rental cars. As someone pointed out, you're far
- better off getting the rental car company's insurance. Exorbitant
- though it may be on a daily basis, it's still far cheaper than
- carrying your own insurance for those 50 nondriving weeks.
-
- Again, you should call several insurance agents and talk to them.
-
- Good luck,
- --Joe
- "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
-