If I am paying for liability plus uninsured motorists insurance, how much coverage am I entitled to?

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If I am paying for liability plus uninsured motorists insurance, how much coverage am I entitled to?

My parked vehicle was involved in a hit and run incident. Unfortunately I was unable to catch the guilty party’s license plates number or get a description of the vehicle at fault by the time I got outside; the culprit had already fled the scene. We searched around the scene of the accident but didn’t find anything on the other car. By CA law am I entitled to any type of coverage for my loss and damages? My insurance has denied me any coverage at all for my case. What can I do?

Asked on July 26, 2011 California

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 12 years ago | Contributor

Liability insurance does not cover damage to your own vehicle. Rather, liability insurance provides payment for any money you would owe (and any legal fees to defend yourself) you caused to another person or another person's property. So it is the other driver's liabilty insurance that would pay for your car if the other driver was at fault, but if you can't locate that person, that does not help you. The type  of coverage that would pay for damage to your own car would be collision coverage; if you have that, then barring some specific exclusion, which the insurer would have to point to and identify, you should be able to receive compensation; but if  you only had liabilty, that would not, unfortunately, help you.


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