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Trusted Regina Insurance experts at Campbell & Haliburton Tip On Basic Auto Damage Insurance

Trusted Regina Insurance experts at Campbell and Haliburton Insurance Inc have been in the community for over 50 years. They know it is customer service and knowledge that counts when you are in need of an insurance company in Regina. Campbell & Haliburton Insurance, myCH.ca, dedicated insurance brokers in Regina can assist you with finding the plan that works best for you. In their latest Trusted Regina Insurance Tip, they share a tip on Basic Auto Damage Insurance


. In our latest Campbell & Halliburton Regina auto insurance tip, we share important information from SGI that explains basic auto insurance coverage.

Basic Auto Insurance Coverage – Tips and Information From Campbell & Haliburton Insurance


When you register a vehicle, you pay a flat registration fee and get a basic package of insurance on your plates. The insurance includes:

  • coverage for damage to your vehicle, subject to a deductible
  • personal injury insurance from a vehicle collision
  • liability insurance for damage your vehicle causes to another vehicle or property, or injury to others

Vehicle damage and your deductible. 


Physical damage your vehicle suffers from a collision is covered by your basic plate insurance, subject to a deductible. The deductible is the amount you must pay before your basic plate insurance covers the rest of the costs. Most vehicles with basic plate insurance have a $700 deductible.

If you have minor damages that will be less than your deductible to fix and you won’t make an insurance claim, you can pay for the repairs on your own. This is also true if you are responsible for the damage.

The chart below shows the specific deductible amount that applies based on the class of the vehicle.

 
Class Vehicle Type Deductible
Class A Light vehicles (under IRP) $700
  • Heavy trucks
  • Heavy cargo vans
  • Power units
$2,500
  • Pro-rated heavy trucks
  • Cargo vans
  • Power units
$15,000 (optional)
Class C
  • Heavy trucks
  • Heavy cargo vans
  • Power units
$700
Class D
  • Heavy trucks
  • Heavy vans
  • Power units
$700
Class LV
  • Passenger vehicles
  • Motorcycles
  • Motorized bicycle/pedal cycle
  • Antiques
  • $700
  • $700
  • $350
  • $500
Class MT Snowmobiles Not applicable1
Class PV
  • Heavy trucks
  • Heavy vans
  • Power units
$700
Antiques $500
Class TS
  • Trailers
  • Semi-trailers
$500
Class T
  • All trailers (except metal or fibreglass/other cabin trailers
$400
  • Metal cabin trailer
  • Fibreglass/another cabin trailer
  • Based on customer declared value:
  • Valued at $1,000 or less - $400
  • Valued at $1,001 or less - $500
 

Who pays the deductible after a collision?

Whether or not you pay your deductible depends on who caused the collision and if your vehicle has been damaged.
Situation Pay deductible? Details
You’re responsible for the collision Yes If the cost to fix your vehicle is more than your deductible, your basic plate insurance covers the difference.
You’re not responsible for the collision No The responsible driver’s insurance covers the cost to fix your vehicle.
Your vehicle wasn’t damaged in the collision No If your vehicle isn’t damaged, you don’t have to pay your deductible. This applies if you’re responsible for the collision or not. If the other driver’s vehicle is damaged, your insurance covers the cost to fix it.
You and the other driver are equally responsible for the collision and your vehicle was damaged Yes – you pay half If the cost to fix your vehicle is more than half your deductible, your basic plate insurance covers the difference.
You and the other driver are equally responsible for the collision and your vehicle was damaged, but the other driver is uninsured or from outside Saskatchewan Yes You pay your full deductible up front but SGI will try to get half of it back from the other equally responsible driver.
Your vehicle is stolen, vandalized, or damaged from a:
  • hit and run
  • storm
  • fire
  • collision with an animal
  • single-vehicle collision
Yes You pay your full deductible when there’s no other party to collect it from.

Deductible Payment Plan

If you have basic plate insurance and you're eligible, you can use the Deductible Payment Plan to pay your deductible over 10 months.

Reduce your deductible

If you want to pay a smaller deductible, you can buy an SGI CANADA Auto Pak with the deductible option that works best for you.

Coverage for vehicle damage

Your vehicle is covered for its actual cash value. This is the market value of your vehicle when compared to similar vehicles, with similar equipment, mileage and condition as your vehicle.

Coverage limitations

There are some limitations on vehicle damage coverage. For example:
  • Loss or damage to a vehicle insured under antique use
    • $800 less your deductible of $500
  • Loss or damage in classes A, C, D or TS (commercial trailers)
    • unless it says otherwise, limited to $15,000 or the declared value, less your deductible
  • After-market audio, visual, sound or communication equipment
    • capped at $1,500 per incident or collision - $2,200 less your $700 deductible
If your vehicle is damaged, take steps to make sure more damage doesn’t happen. For example, if your vehicle's window is broken, put a plastic cover over the window to prevent water damage from rain.

Extra damage coverage

For increased protection, you can choose to buy extra damage coverage with an auto extension policy through your insurance broker.

Liability insurance

If you’re responsible, or liable, for a collision, you’re responsible for the cost of the damage you’ve caused, which includes:
  • damage to personal property
  • physical injury or death to another person
  • a victim’s lost or potential income
Your basic plate insurance includes $200,000 of liability coverage. If you’re responsible for losses more than $200,000, you’ll have to pay for the difference out of your own pocket.

Increase your liability insurance

If you'd like to increase your liability insurance coverage, you can choose to buy an auto extension policy through your insurance broker with the liability coverage limit you like best.

Injury insurance

All Saskatchewan residents, drivers and non-drivers, are automatically covered with No-Fault injury coverage unless they choose Tort injury coverage. Any physical injuries you suffer from a collision are covered under your basic plate insurance. For details visit the Auto injury insurance page.

Examples of coverage

Example 1: You're responsible for a collision that causes a fair amount of damage to another vehicle. The other driver also has minor injuries and needs 3 months of physiotherapy after the collision.

 
Total cost of other driver's injuries and repairs $15,000
Total paid by SGI $15,000
Total paid by you $0

Example 2: In the same collision as above, your vehicle also needs a few repairs:
Total cost of repairs to your vehicle $1,000
Total paid by you (deductible) $700
Total paid by SGI $300

Your total cost for this collision is $700. Without the liability insurance included in your basic plate insurance, you would have been responsible for $15,000 from your own pocket.


As you climb into your vehicle the next time, you can do so with the assurance that you are covered with the auto insurance that best meets your needs. If you don’t have an insurance broker and want to talk to someone who is truly passionate about your insurance, contact  Campbell & Haliburton Insurance. 


Our Trusted Regina Insurance Agents at Campbell & Haliburton have your best interests and safety in mind and our commitment to customer service is one of the pillars of our business. We also know insurance inside and out, so please contact us for all of your insurance needs and we will be more than happy to help ensure what you value most is protected.

Trusted Regina insurance brokers

**(This is a general overview. There are many different insurance companies, and there are always differences in insurance policies. For specific details on your policy and coverage, we recommend that you contact your agent or broker.)

Regina Financial Advisors John Barabe and Madison Schenher Tip On Printing Our Troubles Away

John Barabe and Madison Schenher understand that everyone's financial situation is unique and that managing your wealth can be complex and time-consuming.  they have has an unwavering commitment to quality and service which has enabled John to build and retain a successful practice in Regina. The team of Regina financial advisors and support staff believe that planning with honesty and integrity are cornerstones to improving their clients' quality of life. They apply their knowledge to help clients make the right choices when considering all the product and service options that exist in today's marketplace. In their latest Regina financial advisors expert article, John and Madison discuss currency, printing money and inflation. 



Can a government simply print more of their currency and distribute that “wealth” to the masses to make everyone rich? We know that is not true. If it were, the people in Germany would have been vastly rich in 1923. Instead, they were destitute1. The photo below is of kids playing with a worthless currency, and besides, that is a loaf of bread priced at 4.6 million marks, all from the most famous currency collapse in history. 


Even though this memory is very distant, and nearly all of those directly affected are no longer alive, to this day Germans are heavy buyers of gold and silver. If what was done over there (printing) is now being done here, what lessons, if any, can be learned?  

 

Over the last 2 years, governments around the world have printed on average $834 million dollars every hour of every day, with no end in sight2. The U.S. is printing more monthly than it ever has in history2. Oh, and we are told this inflation is temporary. Or is it? 

 

Let’s say the U.S. cannot stop printing. They are in a bind and believe that printing is the solution. It does seem to be the case considering their reaction has continually been to print for every crisis. If this is the case, they will water down the currency value quickly. Think about what is already happening. Commodities have been gaining value and that reflects inflation. Thinking of this another way, the dollar is losing value to commodities, so stuff gets more expensive. Either way, inflation rises. Higher inflation means investors need to be compensated. A GIC holder will want a higher rate to offset the higher inflation. Extreme debt levels held by people, companies and governments suddenly become more expensive to maintain as interest rates go higher. Can the government afford higher interest rates?



Let’s take the other side of this and say the U.S. stops printing. In order to keep interest rates low, they currently print to buy the bonds to keep the bond prices at their highest ever levels (and conversely interest rates at their lowest levels – the effect of overpaying for the bonds). They are printing very large amounts to purchase this debt. If they stop printing, this extremely large buyer would likely leave a void. With this significant drop in demand for the bonds, the price would also logically drop, and interest rates go up. But that is exactly what no one can afford. Governments included. 

 

There is another alternative. The U.S. stops printing and defaults on their bonds. Pension plans, mutual funds, individual investors and foreign investors all own these bonds. If the government were to default, all the bonds in all these portfolios would become worthless (or worth very little depending on how many pennies per dollar of debt they are willing or able to still pay). I highly doubt this would happen but must admit it is possible. I suspect based on the track record the U.S. has with printing (as do all the other countries of the world) they will continue. History is full of examples of governments continuing to print, and then when things get worse/inflation rises - print more, and so on. 

 

There are other troubling events taking place in addition to the incessant printing. Since the backing of the dollar was removed on August 15, 19713, gold and silver were replaced with military might. Use our dollar to sell your oil (or else). A deal was struck with Saudi Arabia and then the rest of the OPEC nations in 1974. This was crucial to creating demand for U.S. dollars. All oil must be sold in U.S. dollars, and the reserves invested into U.S. debt. Then we have your back (militarily speaking)4. Fast forward to 2021 and Biden suspends arms sales to Saudi Arabia3. The U.S. just pulled out of Afghanistan around the end of June. Then August 23rd Russia signs a deal with Saudi Arabia in a joint military “cooperation”3. So much for the nearly 50-year-old deal that the Saudi’s had with the U.S.! Saudi Arabia was always the principal country with the U.S. oil deal. The Russian deal is most likely military for oil and is unlikely to be in U.S. dollars.

 

Is the demand for U.S. dollars slipping away? Saudi Arabia is the largest OPEC oil-producing nation. That would create significantly less demand for the dollar. If Saudi Arabia no longer sells oil in U.S. dollars, that would likely open the flood gates for other OPEC nations to also sell in other currencies. This is a really big deal. If countries buying oil no longer need U.S. dollars, the demand for the dollar will drop, most likely along with the value. This will cause further inflation (maybe big inflation)! 

 

The U.S. has well past 28 trillion in debt7. The only way this is manageable is with interest rates near zero. If the dollar drops, the value in purchasing power of the bonds drops, even if the bond price were to stay high. The more they print, the weaker the dollar will become (logic) and the higher inflation will go. 

 

When we said manageable, we should correct ourselves. As of 2019, 75% of the U.S. budget was mandatory spending. This mandatory spending represented 95% of their total revenue. In 2020 for the first time in U.S. history, mandatory spending alone is greater than their total revenue.  Problems, where printing is the likely solution, are not confined to the U.S. We reported long ago about ghost cities in China 8


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 China’s largest real estate holding company Evergrande cannot make its payments (*9). Evergrande is 5 times the size of Lehman  (the U.S. bank that crashed the stock market in 2008). A number of other Chinese developers have now missed or delayed payments. Much more to this story than this short update allows.




 

Regardless of inflation and fundamentals that signal this could get worse, there are things you can do. Being aware of the dangers allows you to protect yourself and even profit from the opportunities they provide.

 - John Barabe, Madison Schenher and team.



 

https://historydaily.org/germany-hyperinflation

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/17/pers-j17.html

https://dailyreckoning.com/834-million-every-hour/  

http://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/live/de1238cf49bc_6EAC/image0011.jpg

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-money-exists-in-the-entire-world-in-one-chart-2015-12-18

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rmiller/2021/06/24/government-deficits-the-debt-money-and-inflation/?sh=477248a42340

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/the_federal_reserve_is_taking_us_into_uncharted_and_deadly_waters.html

http://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/live/0292cbb0d92f_68F9/image005.jpg  printing cartoon

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/gundlach-warns-us-roadmap-losing-global-reserve-currency-status

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Xw5tWsOQo

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/08/24/russia-saudi-arabia-sign-military-pact-amid-chaotic-us-withdrawal-afghanistan/

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/01/27/report-biden-suspends-arms-sales-to-key-arab-allies-in-the-middle-east/

http://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/live/c03799037f1d_902A/image0031.jpg

http://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/live/c03799037f1d_902A/image0021.jpg

http://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/live/Jims-Mailbox_93E3/image012.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/09/archives/milestone-pact-is-signed-by-us-and-saudi-arabia-acclaimed-by.html

https://citizentruth.org/the-secret-deal-that-formed-the-us-and-saudi-arabias-special-relationship/

https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/50-years-ago-nixon-slams-shut-the-gold-window/

https://usdebtclock.org/

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/why-china-has-over-50-ghost-cities-2032322

https://usnewsrevolution.com/evergrande-is-collapsing-will-not-make-its-massive-debt-payments/

https://www.asiapacific.ca/asia-watch/massive-chinese-real-estate-company-verge-collapse

https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/151365/20210914/analysis-chinas-house-of-cards-evergrande-threatens-wider-real-estate-market.htm

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-braces-nightmare-scenario-evergrande-offers-broke-investors-discounted-apartments

10 Posted September 15th, 2021 at 8:56 AM (CST) by Bill Holter & filed under Jim's Mailbox in https://www.jsmineset.com/.

11 https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/09/ministry-of-manipulation-no-wonder.html

12 https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3152146/evergrande-china-faces-challenging-trade-offs-addressing

12 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/evergrande-crisis-developer-modern-land-093000822.html

12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpBYWvmmJA&t=476s

 

I am sending this out as material information to keep everyone informed. This is not a solicitation for any investment. Before making any investment decision, please contact us for professional investment advice through our extensive planning process. This is only meant to provide perspective and update you as best as I can from the extensive ongoing research that we do. 

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