Accident with substandard tyres, insurance company refusing cover. Options?
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Absafrigginlootely right !!Well done, I'd say that has lifted a lot of stress that you've been carrying around for the last few months
Now going forward, don't let your husband near your car
Waiting on the documents to be finalised on the finance side. When I get these I can shop around. Will post my findings here.
Just bear in mind @unstacked , while you may be claim/accident free, hubby is not accident free.
Just in case you are thinking of adding him as a named driver to any future policies.
Just in case you are thinking of adding him as a named driver to any future policies.
DirectDevil
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Careful now.....
If OP is the car owner she has had a claim made against her.
Any claim like this is actually a claim against both the vehicle owner and the vehicle driver.
If proceedings had issued the owner and the driver would have both been joint tortfeasors and appeared as co-defendants.
The principle is that the driver would be regarded as the owner's agent for whose negligence the owner would be rendered vicariously liable.
Yeah, I thought I had heard something along those lines before..........nasty isn't it?
bipedalhumanoid
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The misinformation in this thread is as breathtaking as the callous disregard for the incredible stress the OP will have been experiencing at the time.
If you don't know the first thing about insurance, just don't comment. Your comments mislead people and cause undue stress to people who stumble on this thread.
The fact that insurance policies (since about 2016) mention tyre tread, does NOT automatically mean insurance is invalidated by lower than legal tread. In practice, this is determined by an investigation to determine whether the tyres contributed to the incident, whether the owner has been generally negligent when it comes to vehicle maintenance, and the contribution of other forms of negligence of vehicle maintenance.
Keep your tyres legal to avoid ambiguity, but don't assume your uninsured on that basis.
If you don't know the first thing about insurance, just don't comment. Your comments mislead people and cause undue stress to people who stumble on this thread.
The fact that insurance policies (since about 2016) mention tyre tread, does NOT automatically mean insurance is invalidated by lower than legal tread. In practice, this is determined by an investigation to determine whether the tyres contributed to the incident, whether the owner has been generally negligent when it comes to vehicle maintenance, and the contribution of other forms of negligence of vehicle maintenance.
Keep your tyres legal to avoid ambiguity, but don't assume your uninsured on that basis.
What do you mean?
Presumably he found the thread the same way anyone finds any thread. Searching.
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