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Where to get Cheap California Auto Insurance Quotes

California has some of the highest auto insurance rates in the nation. So where can you get cheap California auto insurance quotes? Read on ... Minimum California Auto Insurance In order to license your car in the sate of California you're only required to have liability insurance. This pays for damage to another person's car or property when you're at fault in an accident. It also pays for any medical expenses they or their passengers may incur, and compensates them for pain and suffering. Liability Coverage The minimum liability coverage in California is 15/30/5. That means you need to have $15,000 coverage for injuries to any one person in the other car, $30,000 coverage for injuries to all persons in the other car, and $5,000 coverage for damage to the other person's car or property. If you don't have a lot of assets the minimum liability coverage may be enough, but if you have assets you want to protect from a lawsuit, you should increase your liability insurance to cover them. Optional Coverages Collision - This pays for repairs to your car no matter who was at fault. If you drive an older car that's not worth much, consider eliminating...
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Auto Rates Still Slipping in Canada

Like political football, auto insurance can remain in storage for the Oct. 10 Ontario provincial elections. Rates have been relatively stable for months, and they have fallen substantially since the Liberal and Conservative parties last campaigned on promises to reduce premium costs, reports The Star. What is there to argue about? Well, not much. But the future could give surprises along the way. A clutch Canada could not even handle the shifts. "Ontario drivers have saved $4.5 billion since November 2003 from lower premiums as a direct result of changes to the (auto insurance) product," says Jane Voll, an economist with the Insurance Bureau of Canada. "The average premium per vehicle has dropped from $1,499 to $1,260 annually - a reduction of nearly 16 percent." Statistics Canada and the Financial Services Commission of Ontario each take a diverse methodology to calculating the cost of insurance than the IBC. Regardless of the methodology, however, the level of public anguish has sinked. The industry lobby group IBC merely takes total premiums accumulated and divides that by the number of insured autos. The computation discloses how much shoppers are spending. But not how much coverage they are purchasing. Statistics Canada attempts to do...
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