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How much Auto Insurance do I need?

Consider the following three questions
with the help of your agent:

1) How high should my liability coverage limits be?

No one can predict exactly how much you would have to pay if you were to cause an accident.

Ask yourself how you would pay for any damages exceeding your coverage limits.

The higher your liability coverage limits are, the more likely your policy will be able to pay all of the damages.

2) How high or low should my collision and comprehensive deductibles be?

Higher deductibles lower your premium but increase the amount you must pay out of your own pocket if a loss occurs.

Ask yourself how much you would be willing and able to pay on short notice in order to save on your premium.

3) Should I carry collision and comprehensive coverage?

You may be required to carry collision or comprehensive coverage if your vehicle is leased or financed.

Once you have paid off your car, and its value decreases, you might consider dropping these coverages to save money on premiums.

Consider, though, whether the savings would be enough to offset the risk of having to pay the entire cost of repairing or replacing the vehicle.

How to determine your homeowner's coverage

Your home may be the biggest investment you'll ever make. So if you're serious about protecting that investment, here is some important information to consider when determining the coverage amount for your home.

Make sure that your home is insured for at least 100% of its estimated replacement cost

To determine your amount of homeowners coverage:

• Get an estimate of the replacement cost of your home, and
• Select the coverage amount that best fits your needs.

We recommend that you purchase an amount of coverage at least equal to the estimated replacement cost. But the choice is yours. Determining your home’s estimated replacement cost is important because this will ultimately determine which policy options are available to you. Since it is impossible to predict today what the exact cost will be to replace your home in the future, it’s important to have enough coverage to account for unforeseen circumstances.

Understand the difference between market value and replacement cost for insurance purposes

Market value is the amount a buyer would pay for a home, including the land, regardless of how much it would cost to rebuild the home. Replacement cost for this purpose is the rebuilding cost necessary to repair or replace the entire home.

Whole Life Insurance

Permanent life insurance coverage for as long as you live and continue to make timely premium payments.

With level premiums and the accumulation of cash values, whole life insurance is a good choice for long-range goals. The guaranteed cash values can provide money later on to help with temporary needs or emergencies.

View a listing of State Farm's whole life policies.

Features of Whole Life Insurance

• Premiums generally are level and payable for life: Since premiums are level, the younger you are when you purchase a whole life policy, the less expensive the annual premiums will be.
  
  State Farm also offers whole life policies that provide shorter premium payment periods, such as 15 years or a one-time payment.
  
   
• Dividends: Whole life insurance policies can earn dividends. Dividends result when our actual life insurance costs turn out to be less than we assumed in setting our premiums. When this happens, State Farm may return a portion of your life insurance premium to you as a dividend. Dividends are not guaranteed, since we don't know our actual costs in advance.
   
• Guaranteed Cash Values: Unlike term life insurance, which does not accumulate any cash values, some of the money you pay into your whole life policy accumulates as guaranteed cash values. If you choose to surrender the policy, these guaranteed cash values would be available to you. Or, as long as the policy is in force, you may borrow against them as a policy loan at the current policy loan interest rate.
  
  The amount of your guaranteed cash value depends on the kind of whole life policy you have, its size and how long you have had it. The growth in cash values is tax deferred under current federal income tax law. Borrowed amounts reduce the death benefit and cash surrender value.

View a listing of State Farm's whole life policies.

Other types of permanent policies we offer include Universal Life, Variable Universal Life and Second to Die.

Your State Farm agent can help you find the life insurance policy that fits your needs and your budget.