Legal Advice Needed
Jun. 17th, 2015 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteRemember last month, when I was rear-ended by a semi?
It's turned into a big fat hairy mess.
In specific, there's over $3000 of damage to my car. And the insurance company for the driver who hit me is refusing to cover any of it, because apparently the truck that hit me wasn't supposed to be on the road that day.
Their statement is that, according to company records, that truck was supposed to be parked in the Cape all day. And the guy who was driving it didn't work for the company who leased it. So the insurance company's claim is that, since that truck was supposedly in a parking lot at the other end of the state, it must not have hit me, and they're not responsible for paying anything. They're claiming that the license plate on the accident report was a typo.
Unfortunately, while I took pictures of *my* car after the accident, I didn't take a picture of the truck that hit me. And while I can look up the guy who hit me, I doubt he's going to be very helpful and supportive, and come up and vouch for the fact that, yes, he rear-ended two cars on the highway in a truck that wasn't his that he wasn't legally driving.
So.... any advice? How can I go about proving that yes, this is the truck that hit me? I really don't care who pays for the repairs, but I can't exactly afford it out of pocket right now. And I'm guessing this is going to complicate any payment for the medical bills, given that I wound up at Urgent Care after the accident. What are my recourses in a situation like this?
Please, and thank you, and all of that....
It's turned into a big fat hairy mess.
In specific, there's over $3000 of damage to my car. And the insurance company for the driver who hit me is refusing to cover any of it, because apparently the truck that hit me wasn't supposed to be on the road that day.
Their statement is that, according to company records, that truck was supposed to be parked in the Cape all day. And the guy who was driving it didn't work for the company who leased it. So the insurance company's claim is that, since that truck was supposedly in a parking lot at the other end of the state, it must not have hit me, and they're not responsible for paying anything. They're claiming that the license plate on the accident report was a typo.
Unfortunately, while I took pictures of *my* car after the accident, I didn't take a picture of the truck that hit me. And while I can look up the guy who hit me, I doubt he's going to be very helpful and supportive, and come up and vouch for the fact that, yes, he rear-ended two cars on the highway in a truck that wasn't his that he wasn't legally driving.
So.... any advice? How can I go about proving that yes, this is the truck that hit me? I really don't care who pays for the repairs, but I can't exactly afford it out of pocket right now. And I'm guessing this is going to complicate any payment for the medical bills, given that I wound up at Urgent Care after the accident. What are my recourses in a situation like this?
Please, and thank you, and all of that....
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Date: 2015-06-18 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-06-18 08:13 pm (UTC)(And that the error just somehow managed to coincidentally match the plate of a truck of the same make and model, owned by the same company....)