{"id":126,"date":"2008-12-23T16:57:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T21:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noyeshallallen.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/23\/you-never-know-whos-an-uninsured-driver\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:54:06","slug":"you-never-know-whos-an-uninsured-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/you-never-know-whos-an-uninsured-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"You Never Know Who&#8217;s an Uninsured Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s an interesting twist to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/site\/blogs\/6a00e5540bfd47883400e5540bfd4d8834\/post\/6a00e5540bfd47883401053680ffd7970b\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Beware: More Uninsured Drivers on the Road\">our recent post<\/a>&#160;about uninsured drivers, and the need to adjust your insurance accordingly.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>If you&#39;re stopped at a traffic light, and rear-ended by a $140,000 Mercedes, you probably don&#39;t expect that the driver is cruising around without insurance &#8211; but you&#39;d be wrong if that driver was troubled Giants&#39; wide receiver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/plaxicoburress\/profile?id=BUR595691\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Burress&#39; profile on nfl.com\">Plaxico Burress<\/a>. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/a68h4j\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Orlando Sentinel article about Burress&#39; citation.\">the details<\/a>, courtesy of the Orlando Sentinel.&#160;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Bottom line: you never know what kind of insurance &quot;the other guy&quot; has &#8211; so you need to need to protect yourself.&#160;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Now, if that didn&#39;t scare you enough, think about this for a second: what if YOU hit a $140,000 Mercedes, and had only bought <a href=\"http:\/\/maine.gov\/pfr\/insurance\/consumer\/auto.htm#Requiredcoverage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bureau of Insurance info about statutory limits.\">state minimum liability limits<\/a> &#160;of $25,000 property damage?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s an interesting twist to our recent post&#160;about uninsured drivers, and the need to adjust your insurance accordingly. If you&#39;re stopped at a traffic light, and rear-ended by a $140,000 Mercedes, you probably don&#39;t expect that the driver is cruising around without insurance &#8211; but you&#39;d be wrong if that driver was troubled Giants&#39; wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-insurance","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}