Report it to your insurance company and let them duke it out with the other company. I was rear ended last summer ( like my car isn't screaming red!) and my insurance (USAA) was great. The other driver had geico who took good car of "Hot Wheels" but she had no injury insurance. I had to have my back checked and I had a concussion and my insurance was awesome. (She hit me at about 40 mph and I was stopped with nowhere to go). They took my car to the Chevy dealer that specializes in corvettes and they did a great job. My body shop guy fell in love with my car and gave me status updates on "my baby".
Good luck getting your baby fixed! And big pick ups scare me, they change lanes onto me all the time - they don't look down!
sounds like you are getting screwed. Insurance is for vehicles, not people. Everyone that drives the vehicle is covered unless the policy expressly does not cover that person or anyone other than insured. Not covering a named person is smart if you have a teen driver that will not be driving your Ferrari, that way, adding said tenn to your policy will not increase the insurance on the Ferrari.
If truck ower is playing stupid, then the truck that was involved in the hit and run would be impunded pending investigation. That is unless Texas really has fallen off the map. It would be treated no differently than a stolen vehicle at that point. So if we reversed this and it was your stolen car that committed the hit n run, then your car would still be impounded now and there would be nothing you could do to get it back until the cops were finished with it. I have heard this taking months and then insurance companies buying it out anyway even for a small fender mishap....especially if there are impound/towing/storage fees.
Either way, it sux. Contact your insurance and let them fight for you. They have a better chance of winning. A lawyer will just get 1/3 of what he gets for you if he wins. Insurance companies battle like this everyday. Some insurance companies play well with each other also.
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Having gone thru this years ago, let me repeat- let your insurance handle it. In my case, it took about 3 years -but I eventually got a check from my insurance company for my deductible.
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Unless she files a police report that the vehicle was stolen by him, she cannot also claim that she did not give him permission to use his vehicle so as a result, she is not responsible. So unless there is a police report with charges against him, she cannot get away with that. Sounds like her insurance is trying to take advantage of you.
I agree with the above statement and if she sticks to her story then he was driving a stolen vehicle.
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Exactly, either she gave him permission, in which because he doesn't have insurance, her's kicks in, or she didn't give him permission, in which case he was driving a stolen vehicle, and she would have to file a police report to prevent her insurance from going after her. Her insurance shouldn't be going after you, they should be forcing her to either file a police report or making her pay for the deductible because as far as they would see it, if she doesn't file a report that her car was stolen, she did give him permission. She can always claim it was stolen, and she doesn't know whom stole it. But she wouldn't be able to claim it wasn't stolen, and they wouldn't go after her as a result. Just doesn't make sense.
they most likely know that your ins co will subrogate against them so they will be paying for the repairs later, but will not owe as much as your ins co only pays to the policy limit and if they (the at fault co) where handling your claim there is more you are entitled to, like a rental that is like your car which your ins co will not do and rental is usually an added endorsement you may not have. Every state has an insurance commissioner you can plead your case to as long as you have not retained an attorney; look on line for them at your state web site. In most states the driver ins co is the 1st responsible and the the car of the at fault person, so they (her co ) are definitly going to own the claim at some point. If you state is a no fault state they may have a mini-tort law the at fault co will have to pay your deductable up to $500, you can also check that at the state web site.
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Ug, this happened to a friend of mine. Luckily, she had $50K of uninsured coverage. The tricky part was, all claims had to first be paid out on her accident, before she could collect. So, it took about 8 months and a lawyer to finally get the check from the insurance company.
Ug, this happened to a friend of mine. Luckily, she had $50K of uninsured coverage. The tricky part was, all claims had to first be paid out on her accident, before she could collect. So, it took about 8 months and a lawyer to finally get the check from the insurance company.
I'm confused. If she was hit by an uninsured motorist, she would be the one filing a claim. What other claims were there?
UPDATE!
I am happy to say, after almost 2 months of me fighting with her insurance company, and almost giving up, they finally gave in and are mailing me a check to cover the damages and settle the claim. I had a lawyer friend of mine write up a threatening letter and that seemed to do the trick. The very next day I got the phone call that they wanted to pay me for the damage. Good news is that I already had it fixed for around $400 dollars a few weeks ago. I just could not sit around and wait with my baby dented up. The best part is that they are paying me $647, the cost of the highest estimate I got. So i actually will come out ahead. Now I can get my new wheels installed and body kit painted.
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