State minimum insurance requirements are the car insurance requirements for each state, by law, for their residents. These minimum requirements for each state can be found at the state insurance commissioner’s website. Although keeping up with the state minimum requirements are all that is needed to keep one legal in their state for car insurance, only purchasing the state minimum insurance requirements is usually not the best choice.

Why Won’t the Minimum State Insurance Requirements Cover Me?

This is a good question. It seems funny that each state legislature would set a minimum insurance requirement and then your insurance agent tells you that the minimum is not enough. But it is true and sometimes the changes it takes to put into law what is the best coverage for car insurance is a lengthy process and is often behind the economy changes. Let us look at an example:

State-by-State Minimum Requirements

• Alaska 50/100/25
• Alabama 25/50/25
• Arkansas 25/50/25
• Arizona 15/30/10
• California 15/30/5
• Colorado 25/50/15
• Connecticut 20/40/10
• Delaware 15/30/10
• Florida 10/20/10
• Georgia 25/50/25
• Hawaii 20/40/10
• Idaho 20/50/15
• Illinois 20/40/15
• Indiana 25/50/10
• Iowa 20/40/15
• Kansas 25/50/10
• Kentucky 25/50/10
• Louisiana 15/30/25
• Maine 50/100/25
• Maryland 30/60/15
• Massachusetts 20/40/5
• Michigan 20/40/10
• Minnesota 30/60/10
• Mississippi 25/50/25
• Missouri 25/50/10
• Montana 25/50/10
• Nebraska 25/50/25
• New Hampshire 25/50/25
• New Jersey 15/30/5
• New Mexico 25/50/10
• Nevada 15/30/10
• New York 25/50/10
• North Carolina 30/60/25
• North Dakota 25/50/25
• Ohio 12.5/25/7.5
• Oklahoma 25/50/25
• Oregon 25/50/20
• Pennsylvania 15/30/5
• Rhode Island 25/50/25
• South Carolina 25/50/25
• South Dakota 25/50/25
• Tennessee 25/50/15
• Texas 30/60/25
• Utah 25/65/15
• Virginia 25/50/20
• Vermont 25/50/10
• Washington 25/50/10
• Wisconsin 50/100/55
• West Virginia 20/40/10
• Wyoming 25/100/15