How long?

How long should it take to get some sort of payout for a written-off
bike, where liability is not in dispute? I know the injury
compensation could take some time, but I was under the impression that
getting something for the old Bandit would be much quicker. RSS were
recommended to me as the best; I haven't seen much to support this so
far. Maybe I'm just too impatient?

 

mine took about 4 to 6months for the bike payout, there wern't any liability
issue's either
Accident march 1996 going to court for compo on 8,9,10,11 December this year
but it really depends on the type of injury and whether the 'Specialists'
can give a long term diagnosis on the injuries and the affects they will
have now and in the future,

HTH
Yoda Out

 

Mine took about six weeks - long enough to get the cast off, let the
cheque clear and go buy a new bike.

If the other side has admitted liability, RSS should be able to get a
cheque out of them pretty much instantly for your excess and
clothing/lid damage. The big cheque should come from you negotiating
with the insurer's assessor. IME.

Having said that, once they had admitted liability (two or three
weeks) then I had the cheque from _my_ insurer on the basis that they
could go and claim it back from the other side.

Once the other side has paid your excess, tell your insco about that
specifically and the incident should not therefore materially affect
your no-claims - it will show up as a claim, but "not at fault" so
your percentage remains as it was before the incident. IME.

 

Darren Robinson said:

3 to 4 weeks. That's all it took to get the aggreement for them to
spend 7k mending the Pan after the French incident.

 

Well, nearly twelve weeks later I've got three-tenths of **** all.
The other bloke's insurers, Eagle Star Zurich, claimed not to have had
the assessor's report for some 6 weeks after he'd been to see it, and
the assessor rang me immediately after he'd seen the bike so I know it
was done. Wish I'd kept his number, now. The solicitor at RSS who I
last spoke to two weeks ago, said that the post strike was causing
delays - fair enough there, I suppose. He also reckoned that, in his
opinion, ESZ were the worst of all possible insurance companies to
deal with, as they were (also in his opinion) knee-deep in shit, and
didn't know it. I didn't like the sound of that. AFAIK there has
been no negotiation so far.

Ah, well, I was only TPFT, so that's not an option.

Cheers; have already contacted CN regarding impending new bike; NCD
confirmed as unaffected, although it was protected anyway.

As I said, I went to RSS as they were recommended by others - only one
person (Petrolcan, IIRC) suggested otherwise. I still have faith, but
it's fading.

 

Kick their collective arse. Kick it hard and keep on kicking it until
you rise to the top of their priority list. They should be able to
trace the assessor if you really can't remember where he came from -
if not, blag it out of ESZ.

Good luck - now start kicking ;-)

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Yoda Of Borg said:

Same here, no liability issues and 6 months to get my grubby paws on the
damage cheque.