Louisiana Car Insurance Minimum Requirements
Louisiana requires at least 15/30/25 liability coverage. That is $15,000 for injuries to one person, $30,000 per accident and $25,000 for property damage.
- Shorthand
- 15/30/25
- Bodily injury — per person
- $15,000
- Bodily injury — per accident
- $30,000
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Uninsured / underinsured motorist
- Included at your liability limits unless rejected in writing
Uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage comes with the policy at the same limits as its bodily injury liability. To reject it, take lower limits, or take "economic-only" coverage you must sign a form prescribed by the insurance commissioner (R.S. 22:1295(1)(a)).
- Personal injury protection (PIP)
- Not required
Louisiana requires only liability security under R.S. 32:861. No statute makes personal injury protection part of the minimum.
Louisiana sets $25,000 — higher than 23 of the 51 jurisdictions on this site. The range runs from $5,000 to $50,000.
How Louisiana compares with every other state
What these numbers buy you
Those first two numbers are two different walls, and drivers regularly mistake them for one. $15,000 is the most the policy pays for any single person's injuries. $30,000 is the ceiling for everyone hurt in the same crash put together. Injure one person badly and $15,000 is all your insurer owes, however large the bill. Injure three people and they divide $30,000 between them. Anything a court awards above those lines is yours to pay, and it does not go away when the policy runs out.
The $25,000 of property damage cover is the figure drivers look at last and need first. It pays for what you hit — the other car, a guardrail, a storefront — and nothing else. Only 2 states on this site set a higher one. Whatever the repair or replacement actually costs above $25,000 is not covered by this policy, and the difference is a debt in your name rather than your insurer's.
None of this is what Louisiana drivers actually spend. The average premium written per insured vehicle here was $581 in 2023, 3rd highest of 51 states and DC — and that average covers policies far above the legal floor, not the bare minimum on this page.
Carrying the minimum is legal, not safe. It is the line below which Louisiana will not let you drive — and the penalties for falling under it are on the driving uninsured page.
Common questions
Is uninsured motorist coverage required in Louisiana?
Included at your liability limits unless rejected in writing.
Is PIP required in Louisiana?
Not required.
Is full coverage required in Louisiana?
No. Collision and comprehensive — the two coverages people usually mean by "full coverage" — are not part of what Louisiana law requires. A lender or leasing company will usually require them until the car is paid off.
Every statute cited for Louisiana
Why the rule looks like this
- What Changed in 2026Liability minimums doubled in Hawaii, two states dropped pure comparative fault, New Hampshire stopped inspecting cars, and three crash reporting thresholds moved — a dated account of the 2026 changes, and the ones already signed for 2027 and beyond.
- Fifteen Thousand Dollars, or Two Hundred and Fifty ThousandThe legal minimum for injuring one person in a crash ranges from $15,000 in Pennsylvania to $250,000 in Michigan — and in Florida there is no bodily injury requirement at all.
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Checked against the primary sources above on September 27, 2026. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it — what we have corrected so far is public.