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Legal question on a hit-and-run

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by BurnsWhenIPee, Dec 4, 2024.

  1. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    This is what your tort coverage is for. Let them handle it. I will say your chances of recovering that $500 are the same whether you go after him with a bat or an insurance company lawyer.
     
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  2. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    Yeah, definitely where we are at, and what our insurance agent has told us, to let them handle it and wash our hands of it.

    One thing that gets me is, part of the lease there mandates that all tenants' vehicles must be fully licensed and insured to be on the property, and they must have renter's insurance to live there. Their employee who lives there at least doesn't have the first part of that requirement satisfied, and I'd bet doesn't have renter's insurance, either. If I did anything, it would be contacting the apartment management and bringing up this entire episode and how one of their employees was witnessed committing a hit-and-run, causing significant damage to a tenant's car.

    Glad she'll be moving out in a few months.
     
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  3. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    That I would definitely do. If they enforce it, they will force him to produce dec pages for renters and auto as proof of coverage.
     
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  4. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Sounds like the apartment owner is a sitting duck for a lawsuit from your daughter.
     
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  5. Dog8Cats

    Dog8Cats Well-Known Member

    This would disquiet me to no end. Not that anyone should be judged by one driving mishap, but he doesn't seem terribly upstanding.

     
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  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Wait until she moved out, then raise a stink with the apartment complex owner.
     
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  7. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    Exactly what we've decided, Baron. We are going to sign the form to allow our insurance company to go after him in the courts for the full amount now, then after she moves out, will pursue it with the apartment complex management, both locally and their ownership group on the East Coast. Looks like they have dozens of apartment complexes they own nationwide, and based on their online ratings from tenants, seem to be pretty responsive to complaints and concerns.
     
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