Originally Posted by Brian.

USAA ~ and yes, you can use them. The whole "military" thing is just marketing, by law they can't exclude based on that. As usual, YMMV... we have about 10 different insurance policies with them, IRAs, 401K's etc... plus, my wife and I are in the top tier of credit, have lived in the same place with the same jobs for a long time (strange thing to be important, but it's considered "stability" and weighs a good bit), etc...

Insurance is there to protect your current and Future assets. Doesn't take much to run out of insurance coverage if you cause 1 vehicle to have an incident where 4 people are in a hospital for 3 days. Takes even less for a lawyer/judge to find you at fault. If you have any thoughts about Retiring, owning a home outright, having money in the bank... at Some point in your life, that's what insurance is there to protect because a judge can saddle you with wage garnishment. If you like the idea of the "American Dream" , you may want to look into a liability umbrella policy, I think ours runs about $100/year for each $1m in coverage (coverage based on salary till retirement, social security value, home valve, investments, etc... not what you have today, unless you Really want to liquidate and go through bankruptcy). Basically, what Can't you afford to lose? A few hundred bucks a year is cheap peace of mind.

Also, it's Very uncommon for insurance companies to try and weasel out of things. There's a state insurance commissioner in every state who is Your advocate and has the authority to refuse an insurance company from doing business in that state. One settlement is nothing against the loss of doing business in a state.