Author Topic: Car insurance "medical payments" coverage  (Read 482 times)

41magsnub

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Car insurance "medical payments" coverage
« on: December 18, 2015, 11:24:24 AM »
Do I want this?  Currently that is zero'd out in my coverage.  I have $100,000 per occupant/$300,000 per accident for uninsured and underinsured motorists.

My (probably flawed) understanding of what the medical payments are for is my insurance company will immediately start covering medical expenses (up to the policy limit of course) while fault is being determined so I am not out of pocket on those expenses in the interim.  Sort of a loan against whichever insurance company pays out in the end.  Montana is not one of the states where that coverage is mandatory.

Financially it would be kind of nice, if I'm laid up the scrambling needed to do move things around to get liquidity to cover major medical bills would be a big hassle.

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Re: Car insurance "medical payments" coverage
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2015, 11:52:00 AM »
Yes. 
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Re: Car insurance "medical payments" coverage
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2015, 09:24:21 PM »
"My limited experience does not permit me to appreciate the unquestionable wisdom of your decision"

Seems like every day, I'm forced to add to the list of people who can just kiss my hairy ass.

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Re: Car insurance "medical payments" coverage
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2015, 09:39:11 PM »
sounds like it is unanimous...  adding it.

Thanks guys