saving grace
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Back in July while on his way to his drug test in a not so great section of a not so great nearby town difficult child barely scuffed the back end of a 1988 honda accord. He was with his girlfriend, he called me right away and told me he didnt know what to do, there was no damage to our car with the exception of a scuff on the lower front bumper, he said he couldnt tell the actual damage on the other car because it was beat up to begin with but he said he would guess some bumper damage as well. He was nervous and felt bad because he said there was a women with 2 children in the car, they didnt speak english and were on the phone. He exchanged papers, a cop drove by, asked if everyone was ok then drove away.
about a month and a half later we get notice that they filed a report saying they had personal injury to 3 adults! I fought with the insurance company for a week, they came out and looked at my car, the inspector had to ask where the damage was, and he said "are you kidding" there was 222.04 dollars worth of damage and that was to sand and repaint the scuff on my bumper.
The insurance company said the other car at 900$ or something dollars to their car most of which was labor to replace the bumper. I fought it and then never heard back fromt he insurance company.
Today in my mailbox was 2 letters with difficult child's name on the front hand written with no address, inside each was a copy of a summons saying that he was being sued for medical expenses and pain and suffering to the tune of 27,000 combined!!! are they kidding!!!
first off there were not 3 adults in the car which he cant prove the cop didnt stop. The summons says he has to reply to it withing 20 days,
What does that mean? does he need a lawyer? this is absurd. does anyone have any legal experience with these things?
Grace
about a month and a half later we get notice that they filed a report saying they had personal injury to 3 adults! I fought with the insurance company for a week, they came out and looked at my car, the inspector had to ask where the damage was, and he said "are you kidding" there was 222.04 dollars worth of damage and that was to sand and repaint the scuff on my bumper.
The insurance company said the other car at 900$ or something dollars to their car most of which was labor to replace the bumper. I fought it and then never heard back fromt he insurance company.
Today in my mailbox was 2 letters with difficult child's name on the front hand written with no address, inside each was a copy of a summons saying that he was being sued for medical expenses and pain and suffering to the tune of 27,000 combined!!! are they kidding!!!
first off there were not 3 adults in the car which he cant prove the cop didnt stop. The summons says he has to reply to it withing 20 days,
What does that mean? does he need a lawyer? this is absurd. does anyone have any legal experience with these things?
Grace