Reply to: I am being taken to court

[mudskipper]

Oh, and while you're here, could you please sort out the poll on the Christmas Party thread in social - it was supposed to be public. Ta muchedlyness.

[mudskipper]

Does now.

Excellent. Thank you. If only everyone showed the same care for the little details in life.

[NotAllThere]

Whoever tagged this thread:

Please think about alphabetical order of your tags.

every cloud has, a silver lining

is never, ever going to appear in the right order....

Does now.

[mudskipper]

Whoever tagged this thread:

Please think about alphabetical order of your tags.

every cloud has, a silver lining

is never, ever going to appear in the right order.

I refer you to the 'estate agents' thread as a good example of what can be achieved even when multiple taggers take the alphabet into consideration.

[KentPhilip]

He's an agent. That's like a Manx cat claiming compensation for a tail injury.

Harsh but fair..

[Mich the Tester]

Dodgy should claim PTSD (or more convincingly an acquired brain injury) and approach a no win no fee company.

He's an agent. That's like a Manx cat claiming compensation for a tail injury.

[Old Greg]

This ^

Had a similar crash a few years back was nice to the idiot that caused it. Then he tried to say it was my fault. Then I told the **** I would see them in court took 10 minutes to get their insurance company to cut me a big fat cheque for all the damage and time they wasted.

Moral : always use a claims co and ensure you are fully compensated.

If they are not insured take everything you can from them.

Dodgy should claim PTSD (or more convincingly an acquired brain injury) and approach a no win no fee company.

[bobspud]

Insurance companies assert blame in part by looking at the point of impact. I am not sure what a court would do, but if you would have gone through your respective insurance companies, they would have looked at the point of impact on both vehicle to a ascertain whether you drove into her or whether she pulled into the side of you.

This ^

Had a similar crash a few years back was nice to the idiot that caused it. Then he tried to say it was my fault. Then I told the **** I would see them in court took 10 minutes to get their insurance company to cut me a big fat cheque for all the damage and time they wasted.

Moral : always use a claims co and ensure you are fully compensated.

If they are not insured take everything you can from them.

[Old Greg]

Make sure that when you get to court, you get an employer's character reference for her.

[SueEllen]

FFS

[DodgyAgent]

You didn't send it on paper with an agency letterhead did you?

[Doggy Styles]

You didn't send it on paper with an agency letterhead did you?

[Sysman]

Joking aside, there is little damage to my car (and there was very little to hers -quite how they have blown it up to £1000 is beyond me). If it is a matter of me not having notified my insurance company then I am done for m'lud. This is not the insurance company taking me to court it is her and she is claiming that I collided with her! which considering the bill for damage to her car shows repairs to the "front offside wing" and I now have a quote for the "nearside passenger door" seems utterly ridiculous.

Her Insurance company wrote to me "ticking me off" for writing directly to her. I then suggested that given the evidence contradicted her claim it was clearly in her better interests to talk to me direct. I then asked them to show me examples of previous incidents where a car has moved sideways/backwards into the front offside wing of another car.

They have chosen to ignore me

You didn't send it on paper with an agency letterhead did you?

[Sysman]

Not me; I can't stand this practise of trying to get damages for every little misfortune that befalls people in life. Not even if the misfortune involves a recruitment agent.

Agreed. The typical scenario is that the person at fault admits blame, then when they discuss it with family and/or colleagues those folks persuade them to go for a payout.

[RedSauce]

Read your insurance docs. Mine says that the insurer will only cover claims notified within 6 months of accident. We're still in that so should be the same for yours.

Telling or not telling your insurance company won't have any impact on who is right and who is wrong.

Plus a lot of insurance has 'free legal cover' so you might be able to save yourself a few quid