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Investigations Take Place After Commercial Vehicle Auto Accident Due to Strict Regulations
Posted by admin in Vehicle Accidents on August 6, 2011
Being involved in a car accident can be an upsetting and painful experience. Oftentimes, injuries resulting from vehicular accidents are severe or even fatal. Even minor car accidents can cause both physical and psychological damages as well. If you have been involved in such traumatic accident that anyone would not wish to have, you can make a claim for all of the losses you have suffered. With substantial and sufficient evidences and information, you can file for a car accident compensation claim.
Everyone knows that most of the car accidents happen to occur due to negligence of the person on the steering wheel, the driver. Reasons such as failure of checking and maintaining brakes, looking when crossing a junction or an intersection, or keeping a sage distance from adjacent vehicles resulting to car crash are some of the common grounds why such accidents transpire. If you can prove to everyone that the other driver is responsible for the accident, you can get ample compensation quickly. Ideally, all car owners and drivers must have availed car and accident insurances. These will help in making negotiation and settlements fast.
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Do I Need a Special Attorney If I Am in an Accident With a Commercial Vehicle?
Posted by admin in Vehicle Accidents on July 1, 2011
Here’s a little scenario you might want to play along with. You are driving from your home on a business trip to Seattle. As you pass through the state, a reckless driver speeds up in spite of the obvious stop sign thereby causing your vehicle to turn turtle in the middle of the highway. The car accident causes you serious personal injuries and your car gets demolished from the car impact. If you were the driver, what do you do in such an unfortunate situation?
The first thing on your list should be to treat your injuries as soon as possible. But once you’re done with recuperation, you might want to also think about the financial consequences of figuring in the car accident. This means thinking about the medical bills you need to pay for the treatment of your personal injuries, how much you need to shell out to replace your demolished car, or the salaries you’ve lost from missing work.
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Should I Hire an Auto Accident Attorney Involving a Commercial Vehicle?
Posted by admin in Vehicle Accidents on July 1, 2011
No one can rightfully predict the outcome of any vehicular accident situation. You may ask a relative or a friend who has had past experience, you may rely on media exposure or perhaps seek general information regarding auto accident assumptions but frankly, the basis of how an auto accident will end up is beyond anyone’s dictates. There are a lot of things that one has to consider before arriving at a conclusion and here are just a few of them.
The first consideration is that not all auto accident laws are one and the same. Just as there are various states within the country, there will likewise be different car accident laws peculiar to each state. For instance, some states apply no-fault laws in their jurisdiction while others don’t. Some states will deem the accused party not negligent if the personal injuries suffered by the victim are not serious and life-threatening; others will apply the statute that a car accident victim should have rights to certain compensation benefits regardless of the personal injury severity suffered.
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Michigan Mini Tort Claims – Recovering Vehicle Damage Costs in a Car Accident
Posted by admin in Vehicle Accidents on July 1, 2011
What is Mini-Tort?
Michigan’s no-fault laws do not require collision coverage. That is where the limited property damage liability or mini-tort provision comes into play. Limited property damage liability, known as the mini-tort exception allows for Michigan accident victims to recover up to $500 of their vehicle repair costs under certain circumstances. The purpose is to compensate a person involved in a car accident that was not at-fault for out-of-pocket expenses resulting from the collision. Michigan mini tort law is premised upon people being free to purchase their own collision coverage. If an individual has existing collision coverage, the full vehicle repair costs from the accident will be paid from that policy. However, even if someone has collision coverage, he can still make a mini tort claim for incidental, out-of-pocket expenses such as a deductible. There are varying degrees of collision insurance, but generally speaking it covers the cost of repairs to the driver’s own vehicle.
How do you qualify and what can be collected?
If you are without collision coverage on your car, or your coverage is limited, and you are less than 50 percent at fault for the accident, you can recoup some of your out-of-pocket costs to fix your car via the mini-tort. How much you can recover depends on how much fault you bear. For example, let’s say the damage to your car amounts to $100 and the other driver is deemed 75 percent at fault for the accident. Then he or she would pay $75. These cases are normally handled in a small claims court, but either party involved in the car crash may ask to have the case moved up to a higher jurisdiction.