What is Oregon's minimum property-damage liability coverage?
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A.
$50,000.
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B.
$15,000.
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C.
$20,000. Correct
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D.
$25,000.
The answer is "$20,000."
The Oregon minimum is $20,000 per collision for damage to the property of others. This covers the other vehicle, fences, mailboxes, light poles, or any other property damaged in the collision. It does not cover damage to your own vehicle; that requires collision coverage, which is optional. Drivers arriving from a state where $25,000 is the property-damage floor often pick D by habit instead of checking Oregon's lower figure.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. $50,000.
$50,000 is the bodily-injury per-collision minimum for two or more persons, not the property-damage minimum. This answer reaches for the largest dollar figure on the mandatory-insurance bullet list on the assumption that repairing property costs more than treating injured people.
B. $15,000.
The $15,000 figure is the per-person Personal Injury Protection minimum, not the property-damage minimum. This answer grabs the smallest dollar figure on the mandatory-insurance bullet list, assuming the low number matches the low-severity property line.
D. $25,000.
$25,000 is the bodily-injury per-person minimum, not the property-damage minimum. This answer pattern-matches to $25,000, a common property-damage floor in other states, instead of checking Oregon's lower $20,000 figure.
This question tests your knowledge of Insurance & Financial Responsibility in Oregon. Source: Oregon Driver Manual, "Mandatory Insurance," p.93..
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