You may remember (or you may not) that 8 months ago, I ran into the back of someone at a junction while I was moving Alex's stuff to my house. I gave them the details of the rental company, I didn't get my deposit back on the car, I figured it was all done and dusted by now. But no. I got a letter in the post this morning from a firm of solicitors saying that he's suing for whiplash, head injury and neck injury and I should pass the details onto my insurance company (or in this case, the insurance company of the rental people)! At the time of the accident he seemed completely fine - no rubbing the neck or anything - and how are they supposed to tell after this length of time anyway! So I've been stressed and paranoid about it all day, wondering whether the insurance people will stick up for me and what the limit is on that anyway and all this sort of thing. I'm convinced that they'll find some way to make me pay for it all. The accident was my fault and I'm happy to be responsible for the damage to his car being repaired but this just seems like an opportunistic grab. And only this morning the Today programme was telling me that we don't really live in a compensation culture.
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Date: May 28th, 2004 07:40 am (UTC)From:As an American...
Date: May 28th, 2004 08:31 am (UTC)From:There is no reason for you to worry at all
Date: May 28th, 2004 08:45 am (UTC)From:Pass the details straight on to the car rental insurance company and let them sort it out. You may also write back to the solicitors, tell them you have forwarded the details as requested, and ask that they correspond directly with your insurers in future. If in doubt, use recorded delivery (it is only 75p a letter).
Once you have done that, put it all out of your mind and think of something more pleasant (dancing to popular music! Wearing hats! Enjoying cheese).
Re: There is no reason for you to worry at all
Date: June 1st, 2004 05:25 am (UTC)From:Re: Test for screening
Date: June 1st, 2004 01:49 am (UTC)From:Re: Test for screening
Date: June 1st, 2004 06:34 am (UTC)From:Also, posting at 01:49 this morning? Have you been secretly sneaking out of bed to muck about with LJ?
Re: Test for screening
Date: June 1st, 2004 06:52 am (UTC)From:So I noticed. I've zilla'd it but I don't want to delete it because I mentioned this entry as my test in an IC on the support request.
Also, posting at 01:49 this morning? Have you been secretly sneaking out of bed to muck about with LJ?
Nope :) If you're viewing comments pages in the old style, the times are in PST (I'm pretty sure it's that. It's American anyway). Confusingly, if you view the page using an S2 style (e.g. without appending style=mine to the URL) you'll see the comment time in GMT. [checks something] Ah yes. The FAQ (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=156) says PST.
Car Accidents
Date: June 2nd, 2004 09:10 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)Incidentally, when you rent a car, ONLY take the extra insurance they try to sell you if you have no liability insurance of your own. Otherwise it's a rip-off.
Hang in there and for goodness sake, save us all and vote Bush out of office. Goodnight!
Re: Car Accidents
Date: June 3rd, 2004 01:13 am (UTC)From:Hang in there and for goodness sake, save us all and vote Bush out of office.
Don't think I wouldn't like to - he drives me nuts! Unfortunatly thought, I'm a Brit so I don't get to vote :)