I had Geico as my insurance company for about 13 years until they decided to treat me like i was some kind of criminal. I was involved in a very minor accident back in the summer of 2003 when a lady in a suburban moved over into the left lane, without a blinker, to make a right turn. Not seeing a blinker i was unaware that she was about to make a right turn into me. Since there was no one around to see this accident, it was her word against mine.
She than told the cops that i was trying to pass her on the right and hit her (who in their right mind would pass someone on the right, especially if they had their blinker on?). Her suburban had a total of 500-600.00 damage and my car had a total of 1600.00 damage. When i got a ticket for "passing on the right, " she saw her ticket to sue me and my insurance company.
Geico said that they would help me through this and even supply me an attorney. Their attorney turned out to be the worst attorney i have ever met. Over a year and a half, i spoke to him maybe twice, and thats only because i called him (even then he was rude to me). Their attorney talked to me as if i was this awful person that so-called "Severely-injured" this women and her two kids. Oh, i forgot to say that i was only traveling about 10mph.
From the very beginning of this accident until it finally settled, Geico made me feel like they wanted to pay this woman off what ever it took to make her happy and not once did they seem interested in defending me. I had even told Geico that i had sat outside the place where she takes her children to karate and watched her pick those "severley-injured" kids up not even a week from the date of the accident. Geico just seem to not care enough to fight off a fraudulent claim.instead my insurance went up and they gave this woman and her kids for "fake injuries" 32000.00.
If i would have known that Geico (my insurance company) was giving away money, i too would have made an injury claim for myself and son that was with me and was 3 at the time. So if any one wants to know why everyones premiums go up, you can thank people like this lady who made a fraudulent claim to my insurance company. Geico should have fought for this one instead of wanting to pay people for fake injuries and making me out to be the bad guy.
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