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Ohio Car Insurance Minimum Requirements

What Ohio law requires you to carry, and what your insurer must offer you on top of it.

Shorthand
25/50/25
Bodily injury — per person
$25,000
Bodily injury — per accident
$50,000
Property damage
$25,000
Uninsured / underinsured motorist
Optional; no mandatory offer

ORC 3937.18(A) says an Ohio auto policy "may, but is not required to, include" uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage. Insurers do not have to offer it, so you have to ask for it by name.

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