James is on his way up to my work now - when he gets here, I will ask him to get up here and give you the info.
Yea Val - you two and your lawyers! LOL. I think it is sooo funny that James has a place set up on his AIM buddy list just for lawyers - trouble maker much?!? LOL
I don't know your personal situation, but in my experience, I was able to go directly to the insurance carrier that insured the person that hit me with an appraisal of my car, and the value that it is now after it has been hit, they had to compensate me for that, and they did, no lawyer involved. I believe there is a dimished value law or something like that in GA.
Just thought I would let you know, maybe save you some$$$
there's a dispute about the actual value, they offered 113 dollars on a 2001 prelude w/ 30k miles and no prior accidents (car is not modified) I faxed them a market value assesment that stated a loss of 1600 and they declined to accept it's methods for appraisal. I'm not accepting their 113 and they aren't using my 3rd party assessment, so it might only be resovled in magistrate court.Originally Posted by KMDX
You are going to probably have to hire a licensed auto appraiser, we tried the same thing going to carmax and getting them to give us an estimate, we ended up having to pay an appraiser, I think it was $75-100 for the appraisal and then we submitted it to the insurance company and they sent us the money.
honest to god i've searched high and low and almost every appraiser works for the ins comp and is a conflict of interest, obvioulsly. do you have any referals for an independent appraiser for consumers? thanks for all the help btw
I'll check with my husband to see who the guy was that appraised our car!
thank you very very much...
where i'm going from here is to get an actual appraisal, if they refuse to accept it then i'm taking it to claims court. independent appraisaling has to be accepted in the state of ga.
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