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By DEL. D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER, JR.
BILLS providing for “no-fault” insurance are among the major issues in the 1975 General Assembly session. Property damage claims are not covered by the “no-fault” proposals. This is because the insurance companies say that they could not give no-fault coverage on property damage claims (which is the same as collision coverage) to every driver without greatly increasing the cost of automobile liability insurance policies.
What “no-fault” legislation does is to provide that in the lesser personal injury cases there will be payment to the injured person without regard to whether or not he was at fault in the accident and eliminates the right to sue in these cases. The lesser personal injury cases are defined as cases of injuries which are not permanent and do not cause permanent disability and do not exceed a certain amount ($750 in the case of the bill before the legislature this year) in medical and hospital expenses and loss of income (calculated to a maximum of $30 per day under the bill before the legislature). Therefore, only the lesser personal injury cases are covered by no-fault and property damage
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