Answer:
Not necessarily. Another great thing about Uninsured Motorist coverage and Underinsured Motorist coverage is that it may be stackable, which means if you are in a vehicle you own and are injured, you can stack the coverages of each of your vehicles. Therefore, if you have three vehicles and all have $300,000 if Uninsured Motorist coverage and you are injured by an at-fault driver with no insurance, you actually have $300,000 + $300,000 + $300,000 which equals $900,000 of Uninsured Motorist coverage available to you. The same applies for Underinsured Motorist coverage.
Therefore, if you have two cars you can buy $500,000 per vehicle in Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist coverage, and as long as you are injured while you are in your car, you have $1 million dollars worth of coverage. If you have four vehicles, you only need $250,000 coverage on each vehicle to have the same coverage.
I would also recommend the Med-Pay / Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage. If you are injured in an accident and you incur medical bills, you can submit your medical bills to your insurance company and receive reimbursement for those medical bills through your Med-Pay and Peronal Injury Protetction coverages. This is important because it allows you to get the medical care you need. It is also important for those individuals who have health insurance to cover their medicals, because the Med-Pay or PIP will reimburse you for the medical bills whether they are paid by health insurance or not. This is important for those people who are either temporarily or totally disabled. Reimbursement for these medical expenses through this coverage provides money to live on until your case is eith tried or reached a point that it is ready to settle. I would recommend somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 in Med-Pay or Personal Injury Protection coverage.
