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I hope you don't mind me saying, by ambrosen (4.00 / 2) #7 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 03:29:36 PM EST

but you seem to be extremely apologetic for having been driven into and injured (mentally as much as physically). Seriously, those ambulancemen and police officers will have completely and utterly not noticed how you weren't together, let alone judged you for it, but I'm pretty sure that even now if you saw them in the street, they'd remember you and be genuinely interested in how you were. So, nothing to be ashamed of.

Also, the idea of compensation is that you get paid enough so you're not out of pocket as a result of the crash, and that you get everything back that you would have had. So, given that, you should get an analysis from a psychologist of the level of trauma you've suffered, and whether you need counselling for it.

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Good luck. Hope the muppet on the bike's better, too.

I can't even get the insurance company by paperdoll (2.00 / 0) #10 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 03:42:00 PM EST

to answer the phone, I leave messages telling them that the offer is insufficient to my needs, I fax them copies of what the same year van is selling for all over the country and I get no answer. The apologies are more for the fact that I'm more worried about my bills than I am grateful to be alive. Somehow it seems selfish and wrong that I would trade a little of my good fortune at being okay for a little fiduciary luck.

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: Good fortune at being OK by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #14 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 04:35:19 PM EST

isn't quite as good as good fortune at not having been driven into in the first place, is it? I barely appreciate that at all.
If they're not offering a suitable offer, now's the time for thinking about sueing, isn't it? Or at least threatening to sue. Do you have conditional fee lawyers where you are?
I'm sorry I'm hassling you, but rest assured, I'd be in need of the same amount of nagging if it happened to me.
And frankly, the anvils I've had dropped on me out of the blue sky in the recent past mean that I do know the pros and cons of being thankful for not being worse off, versus being resentful it happened at all. But anyway, what I'm saying's just one perspective.

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