Your client is driving a 1997 Dodge Caravan. The at fault driver changes lanes hitting your client’s van causing heavy damage to the left side and forcing the van off the road on it comes to rest on a fire hydrant. Sending your client and his passengers to the hospital in an ambulance.
The Dodge Van is declared a total loss. The at fault parties insurance company offers your client $15,122 based on an ADP evaluation in settlement of the property damage.
Consumers’ Auto Detective will provide the following documentation.
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's evaluation for the 1997 Dodge Van, factoring all relevant options, states a value of $17,825. The difference in dollars to your client is $2,703. These figures are based on an actual case.
We are the experts to substantiate your client’s claim and offer written documentation that can be backed up with expert testimony.