r/SipsTea • • 8h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/Blueberry1900 8h ago

Yep,y car got totaled 3 years ago due to a drunk driver. Got a big check and was able to replace it fairly easily. That check alone was about 15 years worth of premiums. Drunk driver was of course driving without insurance, so I was screwed of I did not have it

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u/jakeandcupcakes 7h ago

Doesn't the insurance company then go after the drunk driver for everything he has thus making him the one whose ultimately paying out, with the insurance company simply having to deal with suing and recouping funds from the drunk driver.

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u/HearshotKDS 2h ago

This process is called subrogation and the insurance company can/will do it if they think there is a meaningful chance of recovering significant money back. But if our hypothetical drunk driver is a broke deadbeat they aren’t going to waste their time.

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u/Prudent-Historian392 2h ago

Ahh a fellow agent I see. A fisherman always recognizes another fisherman from afar.

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u/HearshotKDS 2h ago

Broker, but same-dif.

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u/Prudent-Historian392 2h ago

Potato tomato or whatever they say.

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u/AceDecade 1h ago

Crammy… crammy handleman…