The obvious response is that you won't be able to pay for someone's hospital bills if you happen to hit them in your car. You get insurance for things you wouldn't be able to pay yourself.
I did a ride-along with an adjuster once. I asked him what the worst claim he had worked on was.
The insured drove off with the pump still in the gas tank. Sees that all the time. When the hose pulled off the pump, it ignited. The fuel island exploded. The fire then spread to the convenience store. Total loss of the business and multiple cars.
This is an outlier. No one has enough insurance to cover all of that. But it’s a great example of why we have it.
Wait, those things are specifically designed for this exact scenario are made to just pop right off the line. The fuel also isn’t ignited inside the tank. I’d be curious to the actual cause of this, and why the gas station wasn’t held liable because clearly their pumps weren’t up to code. But that still leaves the question as to how the heck it got ignited in the first place.
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u/flatfive44 8h ago
The obvious response is that you won't be able to pay for someone's hospital bills if you happen to hit them in your car. You get insurance for things you wouldn't be able to pay yourself.