Your client is driving a 1989 Buick LeSabre. The at fault driver plows into the back of your client’s car while your client is stopped for a traffic light creating an obvious total loss and sending your client to the hospital in an ambulance.
During negotiation defense argues that your client’s injuries cannot be as severe as stated in as much as the at fault parties agent paid your client $2,775.00 for the salvage.
Consumers’ Auto Detective will provide the following documentation.
If a vehicle has been "totaled", it means that the vehicle has sustained damage in excess of eighty percent (80%) of its’ value. On "obvious" totals, no estimate is written. Actual damage to the vehicle could be $4,000, $6,000, $10,000 or more. Consumers’ Auto Detective can write a factual, accurate estimate of the actual cost to repair your client’s vehicle that counters the defense argument that the damage to the vehicle does not support your clients injuries.
Typically, your client has received either a CCC or an ADP total loss settlement evaluation from the at fault parties insurance company. Also very typically, these evaluations have been sold to the insurers on the promise that they will save the insurer money in the settlement of the property damage. Class action attorneys, to offer supporting evidence that these evaluations fraudulently cheat consumers in the settlement of total loss claims have retained Consumers’ Auto Detective to provide that evidence. It is our understanding that these computer-generated evaluations are inadmissible in court as no individual can be summoned to substantiate the report. Consumers’ Auto Detective will produce an evaluation based on court recognized data. Most often, we have found that these reports under value claims by hundreds of dollars on older cars to thousands of dollars on late model cars. The more valuable the property, the larger the loss to your client.
Consumers’ Auto Detective can enhance your client’s case and help you to bring them a more favorable settlement. By substantiating damage to the vehicle that is being swept under the table, or establishing a fair market value to their total loss settlement or both. We can be a difference maker for your clients.
We are the experts to substantiate your client’s claim and offer written documentation that can be backed up with expert testimony.