June 25, 2007

• Calmer

  Well, two updates actually. First is, I mistook incidents- apparently the folks whom she was in the accident with, you know the ones I described who I think gave her the dog? Well, we actually haven’t heard anything from them. Hah. Yes, this year my wife was in two accidents- believe it or not she doesn’t make a habbit of it. I was in one in last November myself, and lost the Ford Taurus. Then she lost our Chevvy in Jan- then that whole ‘tap’ issue occurred with our new car.

  Anyway, the ones wanting $95,000 were from the legitimate accident- though it was a circumstance of them merging onto the road infront of her at night, her with the baby in the car. And they claim they weren’t merging- that she just came up on them and whack.

  The chevvy was totalled, but their car made it out alright. They were, however, trying to get all they could out of it.

  Anyway, I spoke with the woman handling the claim at USAA and she informed me that it is normal for the lawyers to ask for an outrageous sum they do not expect to really get, to start. They are going to settle with the lawyer for UNDER $15,000- which is the limit of our insurance coverage at the time. So we won’t have to pay out of pocket- though Kat’s insurance rates will go up in the future. Whew.

  That was quite a scary experience. Obviously, these folks are out for getting as much as they can out of the situation as possible. But, at least we won’t- from what she said, at least- have to pay beyond our insurance.

  -Patrick

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