Right turn accident
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Lunchbox714, Apr 8, 2018.
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And the insurance company is God where fault is concerned. Unless someone was seriously inured or killed, no attorney worth his salt will try to challenge that. There's just no money in it. And money is all that attorneys are concerned about. -
That's what I said.
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Imagine if you would have killed that driver and his lawyer went back through your ELDs, because they can now, as drivers were stupid enough to allow electronic tattletale equipment on the rigs, and discovered you were speeding 5 over a minute before it happened and you get charged with manslaughter.
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There's no money in paying 100% for a totaled car if there's another party who might accept all or at least some of the fault. -
PS--DACcident. A piddly accident your company can use against you to make you look less attractive to a competing carrier, so you can't leave and go somewhere else. That bug that hit your windshield? Well, if you hadn't been there when you were, that bug would have flown on across the road and wouldn't have hit you. And it left a mark, a microscopic scratch. ACCIDENT. Your fault.
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Today, many of these settle as "50/50 fault" you pay your guy's damages and we pay our guy's damages, end of claim. Thus putting a bad mark on your claim history and make you a higher risk for future coverage, no matter the real facts in the matter.
Insurance companies are "lazy, slow to investigate, and tight with their money to outside parties" in multi-party accident claims. Period. -
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Wow.
Get into an accident and you don't call the cops?
The insurance company won't cover a claim against you if you didn't call the cops and have them and ONLY THEM determine the fault of who caused it.
The insurance works on legal documentation, not what you say.
I would think you would be the one at fault, you we the one straddling the lanes and he was within the lane if it is as you described.
And if you get a letter from a lawyer, don't take it as bs, get a lawyer for yourself, you will need it.
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