Victim of hit-n-run receiving no coverage

by Rolly22 » Wed Dec 17, 2008 08:09 pm

OK, here's the story. My 2004 car was hit and completely destroyed. The driver left, leaving no information, so it was a hit and run. The police eventually found him and took my vehicle and his to do the forensics on both vehicles. i phoned my insurance to let them know the next day, I do not have collision on my vehicle also. It took the police a week to get back to me and when they did i called his insurance company, it turns out he was canceled from his insurance company, so he had no insurance. I phoned my Insurance representative and told her the story, she said that my insurance company will cover me completely, she knew the whole situation and still said this. She said the adjuster would be in to look at my car (this whole time i was paying for it to be in the impound). It took them 2 weeks and i never heard anything and when i tried to call my insurance they wouldn't talk to me i would only get an answering machine. They eventually called me and said they would not cover me even though my representative had sent in this claim and had it approved. I waited anouther 3 days with no information, and once again they decided to not cover me. My representative gathered information on other company's that would have covered me even with this happening, my mother and brother who have there house 2 houses and 6 vehicles also insured by them said they would leave if they did not cover me. They still decided not to cover me, is there anything else i can do, im only 21 and dont know to much about things like this and do not have enough money to talk to a lawyer. I am now out $13500 and dont know what to do

Total Comments: 15

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 01:41 pm Post Subject:

yes, you use your collateral to gaurantee, or finance against the note...and no it doesn't have to be paid for..similar to a second mortgage.

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 02:21 pm Post Subject: insurance

MMmm...........ok. I see now. However........I'm assuming you can't use your home, as collateral if the amount that you want 'exceeds' the price of the home..correct. FOR EXAMPLE: If your home is 'priced' at $25,000.00 and you want to get something that costs MORE than that, then you can't use your home as collateral, right? OR...am I 'way off' with this one?

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 02:36 pm Post Subject:

Let's say your homes value is 30k, you still owe 20k so you have 10k in equity, you can borrow on that 10k equity.

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 04:48 am Post Subject: insurance

OIC!! I gotcha now, LORI!! Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification on that. I've done that with my loan, thorugh a finance company. I have my vehicle financed through them. I had a 'credit' up to $10,000.00. When my payments lowered the loan to $7,000.00, I 'barrowed' about $2,000.00 of it. Ok........yep...I SURELY 'get it'. :lol:

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