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Article #4031Re: Insurance claim - What are my rights?
From: bade
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1992 18:36
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1992 18:36
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Congratulations, you have discovered what insurance companies
call Contributory Negligence. The only way you are going to
get the extra 40% out of them is to take them to small claims
court. You see, the Ins company determined long ago that parking
lots (which are not under police jurisdiction -- assuming a public
parking place like a mall) are optional places to be so the accident
is partially your fault since you were there.
I had something similar happen about 10 years ago. A 25 year old
was at my high school (crusing chicks) and skipped a stop sign and
plowed into my front end. His insurance company only would pay 50%,
I took him to court since it was clear that I belonged at the school
and he did not. You probably won't get off so lucky since it was
probably under different circumstances.
Steve Bade
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Regards,
Steve
"A good programmer, as a function of what he does,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffea8,772e4f393d83ffb8 X-Google-Attributes: gidffea8,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-12-03 14:21:09 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!iat.holonet.net!news.dell.com!natinst.com!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!bade From: bade@austin.ibm.com Newsgroups: austin.talk Subject: Re: Insurance claim - What are my rights? Message-ID: <Byp51J.23Mp@austin.ibm.com> Date: 3 Dec 92 18:36:55 GMT References: <84346@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id) Reply-To: bade@wombat.austin.ibm.com Distribution: tx Organization: IBM Austin Lines: 22 Originator: bade@athena2.austin.ibm.com