How fair do you think this was?
I work in the bike trade. Customer brings in an SR125 with an electrical fault. We loan him an SR125 F.O.C. to use while the parts come, and he said his insurance would cover. We didn't sell him the bike btw. 2 scrotes steal our SR from the customers house, then plant it into a car head on. Scrotes injured and Police catch them. Our bike is scrap. Turns out the chap's insurance didn't actually cover him. We have a £1000 excess, the bike was worth £1000 so no point claiming. The customer comes in, with his boss, and they both pledge faithfully to pay the £1000 at £100 a month. Stupidly I accepted this. I saw neither of them ever again.
So, 6 years on, I get a visit from a guy working for the Motor Insurance Bureau, they manage a fund set up by the insurance industry to compensate victims of uninsured drivers. The car driver that the scrotes ran into is claiming £250,000 loss of future earnings as the jolt had triggered an old back injury, preventing him from being a builder. The MIB man said, don't worry, your insurer won't penalise you for MIB claims. So. I called them. As I didn't report the incident or make a claim to them 6 years ago they were not responsible.....I was. What a fffing world!
When I made the statement that if they pursued this claim I would set myself on fire outside their head office they now seem to have chosen another option, thank God.
Actually, I don't think I could afford the petrol nowadays anyway.
I work in the bike trade. Customer brings in an SR125 with an electrical fault. We loan him an SR125 F.O.C. to use while the parts come, and he said his insurance would cover. We didn't sell him the bike btw. 2 scrotes steal our SR from the customers house, then plant it into a car head on. Scrotes injured and Police catch them. Our bike is scrap. Turns out the chap's insurance didn't actually cover him. We have a £1000 excess, the bike was worth £1000 so no point claiming. The customer comes in, with his boss, and they both pledge faithfully to pay the £1000 at £100 a month. Stupidly I accepted this. I saw neither of them ever again.
So, 6 years on, I get a visit from a guy working for the Motor Insurance Bureau, they manage a fund set up by the insurance industry to compensate victims of uninsured drivers. The car driver that the scrotes ran into is claiming £250,000 loss of future earnings as the jolt had triggered an old back injury, preventing him from being a builder. The MIB man said, don't worry, your insurer won't penalise you for MIB claims. So. I called them. As I didn't report the incident or make a claim to them 6 years ago they were not responsible.....I was. What a fffing world!
When I made the statement that if they pursued this claim I would set myself on fire outside their head office they now seem to have chosen another option, thank God.
Actually, I don't think I could afford the petrol nowadays anyway.