Claiming for injuries against your own CTP?

Git yerself a lawer son, git yerself a real good one...

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Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
To say "hello" LOL!
S.

 

Some, yes...

Why do I have this impression that, as imbeciles have a tendency to do,
you're hee-hawing at something you haven't actually understood?

You could dispel that by:
1. Convincing me that you have, indeed, understood what I've said.
2. Pointing out the part of my contention which you consider sufficiently
erronous to be giggle-worthy.
2. Outlining an alternative scenario, more closely based on reality.
(oops, there I go, putting commas and hyphens into sentences again,
compounding the problem...)

(why is it always the 'Blade pilots, and what odds that he'll read "hyphen"
as "hymen" and come back with something about needing to lose my virginity
before being allowed to comment in an exchange among grown-ups)

 

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I'm thinking you would be better asking serious legal advice. Remember the
old saying "The most expensive lawyer usually is the cheapest in the long
run" this has been my experience (not in the personal disability field).
There are plenty of sharks out there willing to slowly bleed your
entitlements into their hands, whereas a true pro gets it done (okay they
cost plenty ) and gets on with the next case. Also whilst many in this forum
are sincere, their opinions don't count for much when you are in the court
room
Just my 2cents !!

 

You also might try postung this to aus.legal.

 

Tell that to the person that won a big payout from their council when they lost an eye due to a magpie attack.

Thats different to road conditions.. neither the RTA/Vicroads or
coucils will own up when it comes down to it will admit who is in
control of that section of road.

 

And in aus.cars, no less...

 

By definition no, you can't, I question the solicitor in question's
solicitorishness.

Compulsory 3rd party injury insurance (AKA green slip or CTP) in **NSW**
is strictly and ONLY for insurance against the injury of parties OTHER
than the rider/driver. You are, by definition the first party (if
driving the "at fault" vehicle. It's not a big logic jump to realise
that if you're not a 3rd party you can't claim against 3rd party insurance.

And you asked on USENET ? <shakes head and wanders off bemused>

JL
(who isn't a solicitor but has been screwed by a few, metaphorically
speaking of course)

 

The only state in Australia that is true is Victoria where the TAC is a
no fault insurance scheme

JL

 

Well Sal, I claimed personal injury through Tasmanian CTP
whilst driving my Qld registered camper down there. I was hit
by a Tas rental car driven by a stupid yank, yes stupid.
However it doesn't matter whether it's single or multiple vehicle.
The fools at CTP Tas wanted nought to do with me over the
phone (told me to go home to QLD and claim), then I marched
into their office in Devonport and demanded to see the
manager. All the accounts and OOP's were quickly accounted for
then and a certain party was sent for retraining. Nothing like
face to face, one on one IMHO

T.C. Feral

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 24 May 2004 19:44:14 +1000

Yes. hit by someone else.

If you'd hit a tree, you couldn't have claimed.

Zebee

 

Yes but you WERE the third party in that instance - the Yank in question
was the "at fault 1st party", so you would be entitled to claim (as
opposed to neccessarily actually receive) against CTP or equivalent in
any state or territory of Oz

JL

 

That's all well and good and worthy of being written down on a piece of
paper, but seeing how there's some conceptual distance between "Claiming for
injuries against your own CTP" and "Claiming against someone else's CTP
after the insurance company staff get confused by their own job", it
would've helped if you'd actually emphasised that that's the point you were
trying to make...

....from where I sit, it read like you were in too much of a hurry to share a
story which illustrates what a
don't-try-to-****-me-unless-you're-a-Swedish-backpacker mofo you are to
ascertain what actual thrust of the query was first.

"Oh, a CTP discussion. I had something to do with CTP once. I better post
the details."

 

Maybe, maybe not, my point was, (if you weren't so quick to
gaboff); don't let them fob you off. Sometimes they're wrong.
In Sals case I believe you are right, but she could try.

T.C. Feral

 

Actually, there are a couple of CTP policies provide in Qld where the
driver is also covered in certain circumstances. They are Suncorp and
Allianz if I remember correctly.

 

John Littler wrote:

I know that, I said that. However I don't know Sals full
circumstances, but they (CTP) can be wrong sometimes, so she
could try. There may be extenuating circumstances ( a falling
branch was driven into her by the wind), I don't know.

T.C. Feral

 

Strictly speaking that is additional insurance purchased at the same
time as your CTP (and is a seperate policy from an underwriting perspective)

JL

 

From where I sit, it seems like the "hollow pipe's" getting a
bit of a workout.
Had a bit to do with CTP have you?
<flick>

T.C. Feral

 

I love harsh week.

Moike

 

Posts, at best, semi-relevant information, then, when pulled up on it,
instead of slinking off muttering "Ok, I fucked up, must remember to curb
tendency to bignote myself in the future", or at the very least, digging in
and mounting some sort of Thermopyllean defence, resorts to the killfile
following an off-the-shelf parting shot.

Class, sheer class.