{"id":672,"date":"2010-10-28T04:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T04:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/?p=672"},"modified":"2010-10-28T04:48:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T04:48:52","slug":"deal-stubborn-insurance-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/2010\/10\/deal-stubborn-insurance-company\/","title":{"rendered":"So who out there can tell me how to deal with a stubborn insurance company?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-684\" href=\"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/2010\/10\/deal-stubborn-insurance-company\/bird-on-wheel-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-684 alignleft\" title=\"bird on wheel\" src=\"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bird-on-wheel2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not ready to tell the &#8220;whole&#8221; story yet, but basically the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/2010\/10\/choose-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">culprit&#8217;s<\/a> insurance company [no names yet] is offering to compensate us with only 60% of the body shop&#8217;s estimate for repairs.<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. The insurance company made an appointment for me to take my vehicle to one of their examination locations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. In advance, I took my car to a body shop recommended by friends. Turns out that particular body shop was, in fact, one of the shops already preferred by the insurance company in question. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. The estimate was for $4,800 [and change].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. I took the car to another shop, which happened not to be on the insurance company&#8217;s &#8220;list&#8221;: this estimate was for $4,300.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5. Yet, the insurance company&#8217;s adjuster only offered us $2,800.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6. We protested. They offered us crumbs in the amount of another $400.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>What is our next step? Anyone out there with experience to help us? We may decide not to fix the car, buying a new car instead.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not ready to tell the &#8220;whole&#8221; story yet, but basically the culprit&#8217;s insurance company [no names yet] is offering to compensate us with only 60% of the body shop&#8217;s estimate for repairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,83],"tags":[89,87,88],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griping","category-merely-car-stuff","tag-auto-body-estimates-honored-by-insurance","tag-help-make-insurance-company-pay-up","tag-how-to-get-compensated-from-insurance-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharisax.com\/DrivingMissShari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}