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Originally Posted by OrrieG
In college I got in an accident. I was pulling out of a lumber yard drive way that had my field of vision blocked with a truck. A speeding volvo ran into the 59 front bumper. Scratched the paint and crinkled the license plate on mine, took out the bumper, fender, bent the hood and door on the volvo. I got cited for failure to stop. Insurance company refused to help me fight it. Passenger in the car claimed significant neck injuries even though she was fine at the time of the accident. Luckily I had my camera and took lots of pictures, and came back and measured distances, skid mark lengths, etc. ASU has a great criminal justice program. I went over and found an enthusiastic student who hooked me up with textbooks on accident investigation. Did not take long to figure out that my reaction time, considering the blocked view, was above average and that based on the girls skid marks she was 15 mph over the speed limit (35 in a 20 zone) despite what she told the cop. I did not pay the fine, I went to court with photos, a plan showing the distances, etc. and my calculations. Judge asked the cop why he did not take the same measurements and he replied based on his judgement I was clearly in the wrong. Judge dismissed the case, chewed out the cop and I contacted the insurance company. They sued the "injured" passenger and her doctor, who happened to be the father of the driver for fraud.
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There you go, awesome job! Being in the autobody industry for 40+ years I have seen such CRAZY **** when it comes to what insurance companies pay, and what they refused I want to puke! We have two in the shop right now, OUT AND OUT fraud, I always look at it as a cop, could I testify in court that this couldn't have happened the way they say it did. VERY often, I have believe without a doubt they are lying, but I couldn't stand up in court with my hand on the Bible and say so, this was not the case. Both these cars, I would put my life on it that they DID NOT happen as they say and there were multiple crashes that caused the damage to their cars. Real quick, one had OBVIOUS damage to the right side caused by the car going up against a building, so obvious it's crazy. Another car did NOT hit this car, this car was driven up against a building or fence or something. So that's the right side, the left side he drove over a curb destroying the wheel and blowing the tire. Then driving on that tire 5-6 miles at least at high speed with the tire completely destructing, ripping the fender liner out of the car and throwing chunks of tire into the engine compartment! We are talking breaking the back of the headlight, ripping the hood release cable out of the car, ripping the air cleaner resonator out of the car. The spare was on the car and the totally destroyed wheel with only the bead of the tire left on the rim was in the trunk. The fender was destroyed by the chunks of tire.
What did he claim? He said he came back to his car parked in a parking lot to see that someone had hit the right side pushing it into a curb and the tire had exploded! After being questioned about this he changed his story to two different claims still claiming that it was hit and run on the right and that he "got a flat" and drove to a gas station where the tire exploded when he filled it!
The insurance company is paying for both of them! I am sorry, they should be refused and he should kicked off the insurance!
But that isn't how it works, they pay it and then ***** about how much our hourly rate is.
Brian