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Hi all.

A while back i posted about a car accident i was in.
It was 4 years ago last month, and believe it or not i still am waiting to have it finalised.

I got pretty beat up being trapped in the car etc... broken ribs, vertebrae, torn spleen, you know the score ! he he.

Anyway, anone beat the 4 year mark ?

And does anyone know the going rate for a pretty bad accident such as this. ? /

TA.

SD


**We are only immortal for a limited time** NP

It took me close to three years to get compensation for a bad bike accident I had,but that was because of complications with the insurance.

Basically,the woman driving her husband`s Porsche 911 turbo :/ thought she was insured but,after the accident,her insurance company tried to worm out of it by stating they had written to her a couple of days before saying they wouldn`t cover her.

We then had month upon month of wrangling about the technicalities of it all;

Should they have phoned and told her not drive ?
Are you still,technically,covered if you have an accident prior to receiving notification that they don`t want to cover you ?
etc.etc.etc.

In the end,I got sick of it and we ( my solicitor and I ) decided to sue her personally.

Unless your case has similar complications,I can only suggest you change solicitors,as they are clearly incompetent.

The big drag of it all, seems to have been to wait and see if i would recover fully from my injuries. That way they had eliminated the "will he wont he" get better, and start there.

No one can decide if i will but most think i will, i KNOW I WONT.

So that said, i have no idea. Another year, perhaps?

As for compo. it better be good after all of this.

Is it standard practice to knock back the first offer or is that just hearsay.
( Yes i know . .Hearsay is a shi* band too . . .thot i`d get in first)


SD


**We are only immortal for a limited time** NP

My compensation claim was in 1988,when compensation was still a new thing.
No-one helped me and I,rather naively,played down my injuries at a medical hearing,saying that everything was "doing fine" and I wasn`t suffering from any real problems.
Had I known,nearly 20 years later,that I would hurt like a bastard every morning,and suffer from terrible back problems,I would have sought far more money.
Has your solicitor mentioned anything about an interim payment ?
I got one,which obviously was taken off the final payment.

No interim.

All honesty i dont have a scoobie what is going on.

Just waiting.

I am not desperate for the cash, but really at a point where i want closure and more importantly what i am due after what that old tosser did to me, the wife & my car.

I thank God i had no babies at the time...had i, i would not have now, if you catch my drift.
And i hasten to add, would be doing this from H.M pleasure having done something rather bad.

SD



**We are only immortal for a limited time** NP