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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (89645)	2/19/2001 1:54:29 PM
From: Bill/WA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Michael, Know you've been getting alot of advice - here's some more ;-] Guy ran a stop sign in a little toyota and wacked me in the right front of my truck [@ about 45 mph]. demolished his car - just bent the finder into my tire [got the crow-bar out of my toolbox to pry it away - i think the other guy thought i was going to beat the hell out of him ;-]. anyway - got a lawyer, sent me for xrays & an 'ortho' dude and then therapy [right shoulder from bracing for the wreck] - this over the course of 14 months. finally everything seemed ok and told the lawyer i was ready to settle. he told me - when i sign the paper, that's it, no coming back later with a claim. i signed, we settled. that's when i found out that the work my lawyer did also included recouping the funds payed out by my insurance company for my medical treatment. now, if i hadn't pressed a claim against this guy for lost work and treatment, my insurance co. would have paid me and my rates would've gone up. but because i made a claim, it was my lawyers responsibility to recoup MY insurance co's paid out funds. IOW's all my insurance co. had to do was pay out then sit on their @$$ and let me pay, for my lawyer to get their money back. not a bad deal for them, eh? makes one wonder what all those premiums are for? also, trouble with the shoulder came back and a few of the fingers on my right hand are numb - makes it kinda hard to pick my nose now <G>. good luck, Bill/WA