West Virginia Remains Top State For Deer Collisions

West Virginia continued its reign as the No. 1 state for deer hits for a twelfth year, State Farm announced Monday in its annual report ahead of body shops’ and insurers’ deer season. The average claim cost for striking a deer, caribou, elk or moose rose to $4,341 between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018, up about 3.9 percent from the $4,179 recorded during the same period in 2016-17 by the nation’s No. 1 auto insurer. State Farm extrapolated from its own claims data to provide estimates for the entire insurance industry.
Severity seems to have bounced around between $3,900 and $4,200 over the past few years, so the $4,341 seemed kind of interesting.