What should I do if I do not want to accept 10% liability that the other insurance company has offered for an auto accident?
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What should I do if I do not want to accept 10% liability that the other insurance company has offered for an auto accident?
I’ve gotten into an accident which the other insurance company find majority of the blame: 90%. So that being said, they are trying to put 10% blame on me because I failed to react to an incoming accident in the period of 0.5 or less seconds by honking the horn. I find this to be unacceptable. What should I do from this point?
Asked on April 4, 2012 under Accident Law, New York
Answers:
Robert Slim / Robert C. Slim - Attorney at Law
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
This is a very common tactic for insurance adjusters to get under your skin in a car accident case. Ten percent is not alot, and probably wouldn't have been worth mentioning to you. Frankly speaking, if your car accident claim is worth $10,000, then $1,000 (10%) really doesn't make that much of a difference. In my career, I very rarely see cases go unresolved over a 10% difference of opinion.
You have to look at your claim from a whole point of view. The question you have to ask yourself is whether you are adequately compensated from your perspective and not that of the insurance adjuster.
I know it sounds like you might be giving in. Rather, the adjuster just wants to frustrate you with semantics. The real goal in any insurance claim is whether you can satisfy your bottom line to your satisfaction.
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