Legal Liability ?

[Tillsbury]

Originally Posted by boatpoker

The owner still has to notify and file a claim with her own insurance.
It is up to her underwriter to subrogate if they desire.

Yes, I don't understand the problem. Call your insurer and make a claim, then let them worry about who to sue and why.

[Shenandoah52]

Originally Posted by Tillsbury

Yes, I don't understand the problem. Call your insurer and make a claim, then let them worry about who to sue and why.

Yes, I don't understand the problem. Call your insurer and make a claim, then let them worry about who to sue and why all the while you're homeless with no other clothes except the ones on your back and everything you own is gone.

FIFY

(just breakin' your balls )

[redneckrob]

Although I'm not an attorney one of the things they teach you in business law is that we have the concept of strict liability here in the U.S. so a person can never sign away their ability to sue for liability. The one and only purpose for all those thousands of release forms we've all signed over our lifetime is to make us think we have signed away our rights and thus not contact an attorney. So I'll third the advice to contact an attorney!

[S/V Illusion]

Originally Posted by boatpoker

The owner still has to notify and file a claim with her own insurance.
It is up to her underwriter to subrogate if they desire.

The first comment which is correct. Why internet jockeys like to give legal advice is bafflingly. And not helpful.

[LittleWing77]

Illusion,

Please don't denegrate boatpoker or categorize him as an "internet jockey". He is a seasoned marine surveyor, who was not only trying to be helpful, but also deals with insurance companies all the time.

So he DEFinitely knows whereof he speaks!

LittleWing77

[S/V Illusion]

Originally Posted by LittleWing77

Illusion,

Please don't denegrate boatpoker or categorize him as an "internet jockey". He is a seasoned marine surveyor, who was not only trying to be helpful, but also deals with insurance companies all the time.

So he DEFinitely knows whereof he speaks!

LittleWing77

Please read more carefully. I did not (denegrate him). Rather, I agreed with him.

[Rorzech]

WalMart dropped my brothers truck off their hoist and wouldn't take responsibility (can you imagine that?) so he sued walmart and won, but then got a lifetime ban from all walmart stores LOL

[Shenandoah52]

Originally Posted by Rorzech

WalMart dropped my brothers truck off their hoist and wouldn't take responsibility (can you imagine that?) so he sued walmart and won, but then got a lifetime ban from all walmart stores LOL

Man, I wish I could get W-M to drop my wife's car off a lift...

[S/V Adeline]

Having worked in the field for ten years, personally seeing three vehicles fall off or driven off a lift it blows my mind ANY company would try to deny liability for it.

The places I worked immediately assumed responsibility.

Originally Posted by Rorzech

WalMart dropped my brothers truck off their hoist and wouldn't take responsibility (can you imagine that?) so he sued walmart and won, but then got a lifetime ban from all walmart stores LOL