Legal Question in Personal Injury in Virginia
I am being sued by Geico for damages in an auto accident that happened in 2009. I was originally given the ticket but was found not guilty. I believ in 2009 I had stated that I would pay for damages so that they would not go after my mother insurance company but this was before I was found not guilty. Can I be sued for a verbal agreement if they recorded the conversation? I stated that only because it was right after I had been given the ticket and my mother told me to. Otherwise, how would i be held responsible for damages when it was determined I did not cause them?
1 Answer from Attorneys
The answer to your last question is that you could still be held
civilly liable for the damages resulting from this accident (apparently to Geico's customer) even though the trier of fact in your criminal case (judge or jury) was not able to find you guilty of the crime charged by the high evidentiary standard of beyond reasonable doubt which applies to all criminal but NOT to civil cases which normally have the much lower standard of proof known as preponderance of evidence.
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