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    8 days ago

    Does Canada have uninsured / underinsured motorist coverage? Because down here in the shithole country, one of the main reasons to have insurance is to avoid being bankrupted if some asshole without insurance (and/or driver’s license) plows into you.

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      8 days ago

      I believe it is a minimum 5k fine for no insurance. I pay 1800 a year and never made a claim.

    • timberwolf1021@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      You have to have liability insurance here (which I agree is a good thing), but everything else on top of that (e.g. collision insurance) is optional.

    • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      I think about half of the provinces have public insurance that’s run by the province. So, the people who issue the licenses, the plates, and the insurance are the same.

      This also means that the police can just scan license plates to check for insurance as they drive around, and traffic light cameras can do the same.

      Uninsured drivers isn’t something that we really worry about in those provinces.