Motor-insurance

According to Hong Kong law, every vehicle must be covered by Third Party Liability Insurance. This coverage protects the insured against injuries to a third party, or a third party’s property.

Third Party Liability Insurance only covers damage to another person’s vehicle or bodily injury to others. However, Comprehensive Insurance provides all the same coverage as Third Party Liability, but also covers own damage to your own vehicle. It is sensible to obtain Comprehensive Insurance if your car is valuable.

Drivers who are under the age of 25, and have less than 2 years of driving experience, are usually considered by insurance companies to be high risk and not accepted.

The No Claims Bonus / Discount (NCD) is a discount earned every year that an insured driver does not make a claim. The NCD rewards drivers for safe driving.

The insurance company will base premium on the insured driver(s) age, driving experience, occupation, excess, and other factors to calculate the premium.

The Excess is an amount that is deducted from the total amount paid for an accident by the insurance company. Sometimes, you can select a higher excess, which will result in a lower premium.

By being insured under your own name, you will receive better coverage (including lower excess), and also start earning No Claims Bonus / Discount (NCD) that will make your premium cheaper long term.

1. First, the motor owner should report the accident to the insurance company immediately. Then the owner should tow the damaged car to a garage for repair.

2. When the claim is received by the insurance company, the insurer will arrange for a motor surveyor to inspect the damaged car.

3. Upon receipt of the report from the motor surveyor, the insurance company will deduct the excess from the claim and pay the repair cost directly to the garage.

4. If the damaged car is defined as a ‘total loss’, the insurance company will assess the market value of the motor at the time of accident in order to pay the market value of the vehicle.

5. Every letter, claim, writ, summons and process should be reported to the insurance company immediately. The motor owner should not admit liability, negotiate, answer or deal with the opposite party on his own.

You should contact Liberty International Insurance Limited designated insurance service provider, Autotoll Insurance Agent Limited (Insurance Agent Registration no.: 05906195). Telephone no.: 3182 1333