Often, it's the insurance companies deciding who to sue. After all, they had to pay out money to cover the accident and they're going to do everything they can to get it back from someone. Paying out claims with money collected from premium payments is only to be used as a last resort, even though permiums go up every time they have to pay out something even if they get their money back from another party. And of course, any excess they get from the suit never gets back to the injured party.
Always Properly Secure Your Load! Trucker Guilty of Double Manslaughter
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Often, it's the insurance companies deciding who to sue. After all, they had to pay out money to cover the accident and they're going to do everything they can to get it back from someone. Paying out claims with money collected from premium payments is only to be used as a last resort, even though permiums go up every time they have to pay out something even if they get their money back from another party. And of course, any excess they get from the suit never gets back to the injured party.
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I've got a totalled Chevy Sprint out back, my sister had it towed home, they didn't chain it right and wrote it off. They refused to pay as they claimed the car was scrap already because it was being brought home for a frame repair.
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Reminds me of something that happened to us a few years ago. The wife and I were driving to O'Hare airport in Chicago after visiting my folks. We were in a rental car on the tollway not far from the airport when all of a sudden the rear window of the car exploded. I mean really exploded throwing glass over us and the front of the car. I thought we had been in a drive by shooting at first. We pulled over rather shaken and the guy behind us was good enough to stop and tell us what happened. Said a piece of metal coming from a flat bed 18 wheeler had hit the back of the car causing the window to break. Looking closer we were lucky because the metal piece, whatever it was, hit on the edge of the window right on the trim piece breaking the glass. Not sure if it had hit center on if it would have made it to the back of our heads but there was glass from the back window on the front dash. Of course it cost us deductibles, a missed flight and an extra night in Chicago plus hotel. I think we may have been lucky overall though. 
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I'm amazed how many times during the week that I see skid steers and tractors being transported without proper tie downs. There are a couple of guys around here hauling skid steers with a strap running through the handles as the only means of restraint. Yesterday I glanced into a dump trailer parked at the local big box store and was shocked when I saw that the mini-ex onboard had no tie downs at all!
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