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George Patterson wrote:
What's insurance like over there? At the moment, liability insurance requirements for aircraft up to 2 tons MTOW is around 3 Million dollars (approximately). This may or may not change in the future, but I tend to think it won't. For heavier airplanes, it is higher. This includes third party liability (if you fall onto your neighbour's house, or more realistically, if you taxi into your neighbour's plane) and passenger injury liability on private flights. Passengers on commercial flights is another story. This is about the same as for cars. In Europe, cars are required to have liability insurance when they are moved on public roads. I think this is a good idea. To fully appreciate these numbers, you should bear in mind that liability in Europe is just this, liability. It pays the expenses, and that's it. Not 10 millions because your dog can't sleep anymore. (Because I know absolutely nothing about the US legal system, I feel sufficielntly qualified to express it like this: We don't have dunderhead liability laws nor dunderhead juries who pay millions to any dunderhead guy who burnes his mouth because nobody told him that coffee usually tends to be hot.) Stefan |
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