Jack Novak responds:

"Robert E. Lewis" wrote:

"Where do you live that you're required to carry uninsured motorist
insurance? Or do you mean it's a condition of the auto loan, to cover the
note if somebody uninsured hits you, as opposed to a government regulation?

New York State requires it. See:

http://www1.unitrindirect.com/unitri...nce_minimum_co
verage.html


Virginia requires it, too, IF you carry insurance. Insurance isn't mandatory,
but you have to pay a fee about equal to insurance costs, to the state, if you
don't carry insurance. It does not serve as insurance. I'm not sure what its
point is.

Charlie Self
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the
exercise of his mind." Jacques Barzun