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Subject: Re: bicycle road rage Posted on: Fri, 9 May 2008 21:40:27 +1000


"Phil Allison" wrote in message
news:68ioeqF2t719sU1@mid.individual.net...

> ** CTP insurance is effectively a government license for drivers to main
> and
> kill without facing the financial consequences.

You must think that bit of useless blurb to be particularly clever as it's
the second time today you've proudly trotted it out.

Can't think of anything else?

> Plus - an injured person ( or dependant of a deceased) must find a lawyer
> and sue the insurer in order to get one dime - in reality only a small
> fraction of the harm done to people by road accidents is ever compensated
> by
> CTP insurance payouts.

And what would that "small fraction" be exactly?

> ** In practice - one has to sue the CTP insurance company covering the
> particular driver. They will have a firm of lawyers contracted to them to
> make sure that task is as slow, difficult and expensive as possible for
> the injured party.

A number of firms in fact.

The difference is that at the end of the day, they pay. The might piss and
moan about it and drag things out, but you'll get your money.

--
Regards,
Noddy.