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The cost of suing, proving damages, and recovering the money is such that it rarely makes sense to try to recover money from individuals. 99.9% of the time, a p
by brigade 5y ago
The cost of suing, proving damages, and recovering the money is such that it rarely makes sense to try to recover money from individuals. 99.9% of the time, a policy limit settlement is the most you’ll recover, and that kinda disincentives insurance companies from voluntarily offering higher policy limits.
(Also I’d wager that more people have only the legal minimum liability than not, which even in CA is $5k property, $30k injury)
Is it cheaper to sue and recover money over there / do people actually expect to recover $1M from individuals? Or is it that governments require insurance companies to offer the higher limits to cover actual damages?
- DominikPeters 5y agoThanks, this makes a lot of sense. Essentially the legal system is too broken. In Germany, the legal minimum is about €9m, but standard coverage is €50-100m. Not sure how things go regarding enforcement, but there are a couple of stories where an accident destroys a bridge etc leading to very large payouts. I guess if you get into a bad crash with a travel bus this could also lead to massive liability.