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Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Murray Group Mailbag. My name is Ryan
Hanley. I'm the director of marketing and sales here for the Murray Group Insurance
Services. And our Mailbag feature is very simple and straightforward. People ask us
questions every day about insurance and insurance-related products and we felt that it was our obligation
to answer those questions and share them with anyone who had the same question and who was
looking for that answer.
So we post these videos on YouTube and on our website to make the information free and
easily accessible for anyone at anytime. Today's question come from Tim and Tim lives in Castleton,
New York, which is in southern Rensselaer County. And Tim's question is, "Does car insurance
cover repairs?" Tough question to answer with a very direct answer, just because really
there's a lot of ways we can go with this, so Tim I'm going to answer the question the
best way I can.
Does it cover repairs? If we're talking about repairs to another car, so you get into an
accident and you're at fault if you have liability up to the limit of the liability that you
have on your car, then your auto insurance is gonna pay for the repairs to that car or
whatever you damage. You run into a telephone, for the limit of the liability that you have
on that policy, your insurance will pay for those repairs if you are at fault.
If you're talking about repairs to your own car, then you actually need to add comprehensive,
which is also known as then collision and or collision coverage which are two physical
damage coverages to your auto policy. So a basic policy very basic policy is not going
to cover repairs to your own car.
If you, say, spin off the road and hit a tree and no one else is involved. If you just have
a basic auto insurance policy then damage to your car, repairs to your car are not going
to be covered. So if you do want those repairs to be made and covered, then you need to make
sure that you you've added comprehensive and collision coverage, two separate coverages
to your policy.
Comprehensive is also known as other than collision coverage, depending on the company,
but same exact thing, just different names. You can have comp and not collision, but if
you want collision, you also need to have comp, and they both cover different things
which I won't get into in this video because I want to keep it short, but so you make sure
that if you want repairs covered for your own car, then you're gonna add comp and collision
to your auto policy and then in most cases repairs will be made.
My name is Ryan Hanley. This has been another episode of Murray Group Mailbag. Tim, I hope
that answers your question, you can always reach out to us directly if you need any follow
up there. So if you have a question that you would like answered on a future episode of
the Murray Group Mailbag, just leave that question in the comments below, whether you're
watching this on YouTube or on our site, I track both places and I collect all those
questions and use them for future episodes of the show.
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we come out with, or any new Mailbag episode you'll be notified inside of YouTube. It's
been a pleasure. Tim, again, I hope that answers your question, and I hope all of you out there
have an absolutely fantastic day.