Is this amount fair?

Shrimping_Shelly

bigjl wrote: »

the sum they have offered is £4000 odd?

That is a decent amount for a minor rtc. how is completely writing off my car and being in pain for 18 months minor?

the normal industry figure is around £1500/1800.

As far as the value of your car i am surprised you even got that for a 7 yr old meriva with high miles. It would go for £1000 less at auction and is not the most popular on the used market, possibly unfairly as it is a decent family runaround, but used car values are fickle things, you do realise that your car was worth under £6000 when it was three years old don't you?

yes ido know that but at that moment in time before the rtc we had no intention of replacing it, to our family it was a solid reliable car. If we had wanted to replace it we would have saved up

bigjl wrote: »

not overly pleasent are you?
would you be be pleasant if you had asked a genuine question to be mocked and replies full of sexual innuendo?

what did you join up for and post, did you expe t everybody to say you should get a million quid and a brand new x5?

no i did not nor is that what i want. Read my original post. I stated that the amount of £4000 is what my solicitor says we should ask for. Iwanted to know if that was a fair amount considering how much pain i have been in since jan 2010. The only thing i want out of this is to treat my long suffering family to a decent holiday.

bigjl wrote: »

wish i had read all the ops post before offering advice.

What a ****.

exactly why am i a **********?

McKneff

Shrimping_Shelly wrote: »

Seriously if SKIDDLYDIDDLY & OUTPOST have nothing constructive to say can you please get off my thread. I asked a valid question that I would like help in coming to a decision as by monday I have to send a load of forms back to the solicitor.

Give over and lighten up a bit, just be a bit patient. We''ll get there.

If you continue to be shirty, because youre getting worse, then no one will help you for fear of shirty replies.
Now just calm down and relax, Long term posters are told to be nice, but that also applies to newbies too.

PHYTHIAN

Shelly,

Don't let them get to you. Unfortunately, your post is quickly turning into a slanging match which will make genuine posters shy away from giving you any advice.

Having reread your OP, I see that the third party was uninsured and so you will be getting paid by the CICB which have a fixed amount depending on the cause/injury. you can find more info at:-
http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/compensation-schemes/cica/what-can-i-apply-for.htm.htm

bigjl

Shrimping_Shelly wrote: »

yes ido know that but at that moment in time before the rtc we had no intention of replacing it, to our family it was a solid reliable car. If we had wanted to replace it we would have saved up

no i did not nor is that what i want. Read my original post. I stated that the amount of £4000 is what my solicitor says we should ask for. Iwanted to know if that was a fair amount considering how much pain i have been in since jan 2010. The only thing i want out of this is to treat my long suffering family to a decent holiday.


exactly why am i a **********?

If you want to know why you are a ***** just simply look at yor posts and the tone that you have adopted.

You are without a doubt one of the most abusive and ignorant posters that have turned up for a while, and this is YOUR first thread.

And I know the definition of a minor RTC, unfortunately you don't.


If you stopped being an arogant and abusive *** for a second you will see that I have already told you that your payout is reasonable, with the standard whiplash compo being an industry standard £1500/1800, so you have been offered or advosed to accept an offer of around £4000, whicih is twice what the industry norm is.

You obviously have no idea how the personal injury system works, there are set amounts for everything, if you go to court then the barrister and the lawyers also have a list of the usual accepted amounts for various levels of injury.


I don't know why I am even bothering to post on YOUR thread as you are not listening to anything that you are being told, you seem to think that you are entitled to smething more than the sum offered so you must know more than anybody on here and your lawyer.

I advise you to sack your lawyer and take the other party to court yourself.

You seem unable to understand the concept of a cars resale or trade value and difference between this and your percieved personal value that you place on the same car, they aren't the same.

I can assure you of one think you have no concept of long term chronic pain.

And I never entered into the comments of sexual inuendo, but you weren't happy with an unbiased and factual explanation from somebody that has a lot more experience of this than you do.

s_b

for what its worth the post no 9 at 2:55 PM hit the nail on the head but smellyshrimpy missed it for some reason

vaio

PHYTHIAN wrote: »

........Having reread your OP, I see that the third party was uninsured and so you will be getting paid by the CICB which have a fixed amount depending on the cause/injury. you can find more info at:-
http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/compensation-schemes/cica/what-can-i-apply-for.htm.htm

Nonsense, in cases involving an uninsured driver the claim is paid either by the MIB or by the car owners insurance company under (I think) s151 of the RTA.

Generally the courts tend to use the JSB guidelines as an aid to valuing injuries, your solicitors will have access to this which, together with your medical report, will enable them to properly advise you. They should also advise you that if the other party makes a pre trial offer (aka part 36?) which you reject and the court subsequently award you less then you can become liable for the opposition costs from the point the offer was made

Be guided by your solicitors but on the face of it and given the injuries/recovery you've described £4k does seems on the low side

geri1965_2

bigjl wrote: »

If you stopped being an arogant and abusive *** for a second you will see that I have already told you that your payout is reasonable, with the standard whiplash compo being an industry standard £1500/1800, so you have been offered or advosed to accept an offer of around £4000, whicih is twice what the industry norm is.

The OP does not have whiplash, she has a lower back injury, which would attract a higher award. The figure I quoted earlier (probably lost in amongst all the nonsense about her username) was taken from the JSB Guidelines 10th edition.

£4,000 is on the low side, but it's hard to be accurate about what the OP should/will get without knowing the contents of the medical report. In her shoes I would be pushing for at least £5,000.

jonnyd281

One problem with the claim is the pre-existing condition mentioned in the OP, how much of the pain and injury is due to or attributable to the operation the OP had on their spine in 2006?

DCFC79

Whats all this the OP's name all about, its just a name and nothing more althoguht i do think they went a ott and could have just ignored them replies.

PeteMc

DCFC79 wrote: »

Whats all this the oP's name all about, its just a name and nothing more althoguht i do think they went a ott and could have just ignored them replies.

Shrimping is the act of toe sucking or licking for sexual gratification of both persons.

Or it's prawn fishing