If the damage and injuries you've caused are severe enough, yes, it's possible that a judgment against you could lead to the injured people going after your property and savings. This is why most attorneys recommend getting much more than a bare-legal-minimum policy like this; it will save you getting prosecuted for driving without insurance, but not a whole lot more, in today's world.
I'd recommend a single-individual liability limit of $100,000, for anyone who owns a home or has other significant assets. The premium isn't that much more, and it will cover a far larger range of possible cases, both directly and over an even larger range because of settlement value: in many states, the law favors an insurance company that "offers the policy," meaning offers a settlement at the policy limit, and this makes plaintiffs tend to accept those offers even on potentially larger claims.

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