Wisconsinites are getting a good deal on their auto insurance compared to most other states. A new survey by CarInsuranceQuotes-Dot-Com said motorists in the Badger State have the 18th lowest financial burden in the country in affording car insurance. The report said Wisconsinites pay a median of 14-hundred-dollars a year for vehicle coverage. And when it’s divided by the state’s median personal income, it shows that the average household spends two-and-a-quarter percent of its income on car insurance each year. That’s much lower than Michigan’s burden of eight-percent. Massachusetts had the lowest auto insurance burden in the country, costing one-point-four percent of an average annual income. John Egan of Car-Insurance-Quotes-Dot-Com says the cost burdens vary widely because each state’s laws vary wide. Michigan, for example, is the only state that guarantees unlimited protection for causing personal injuries. It was just over a year ago when the state’s Republican Legislature and governor repeated an increase in auto insurance coverage limits that Democrats passed in 2009. But the G-O-P did not drop the ’09 requirement that Wisconsin motorists carry auto insurance. The report’s income listings came from the 2010 Census.
