Legal Question in Insurance Law in Connecticut
My auto insurance company will not pay
I expirienced a car fire and my auto insurance company won't pay. I had full coverage on the car at the time, and just renewed my policy. I made claim several months earlier and the say the wrote the car off as salvage. They never told me that they did this and I just renewed the policy for the book value of the car. What can I do?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: My auto insurance company will not pay
It's pretty clear that if the car had not been fixed,
you should not / would not have had to pay full price
for insurance after the accident and are due a refund.
But the big question is, why 'wouldn't' they pay after
the fire? Did they call it arson? Was that somehow
excluded, even if you hadn't been the one to start
the fire? What's going on with that? Just b/c an insurer
says they won't pay a claim doesn't mean they don't have
to pay it; they might only need to be forced into it under
threat of a lawsuit. (This state can give a plaintiff triple
damages plus attorneys fees when an insurer doesn't pay on a
reasonably clear claim.)
You should consult an attorney there.