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Generous personal injury coverage on your auto insurance policy may not be enough to cover your medical bills. Patients can get financially blindsided when car and health insurance policies differ.
Erica Seryhm Lee / KHN Mark Gottlieb’s life changed in an instant when another driver crashed into his car, damaging four vertebrae in his upper spine and smashing six teeth. In the months following that January 2019 crash, Gottlieb, 59, a marketing consultant in Little Ferry, New Jersey, got the teeth crowned and, for debilitating neck pain, tried injections, chiropractic care and physical therapy. The treatments were all covered by his Geico car insurance. As in 12 other states, New Jersey law requires drivers to buy personal injury protection, or PIP, coverage to pay medical expenses. Go...
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Do you know if your insurance covers car theft? $100K ‘dream car’ stolen in Great Kills a nightmare scenario. Updated Mar 11, 2021; — STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When a Great Kills man bought his dream car, a 2005 Honda S2000, two years ago, he cherished the now out-of-market vehicle and hoped to pass it on to his daughter as her first car. But that plan came to a halt about 11 p.m. on Feb. 13, when the two-seat convertible was stolen from the parking lot at his apartment. “I don’t know how [they were able to unlock the car],” said Andy A., 28, who asked not to have his full last nam...