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I've heard that even if an in-person driven lorry from Eastern Europe crashes into you in the UK, your UK insurance company will use your insurance to pay out f
by gadders 4y ago
I've heard that even if an in-person driven lorry from Eastern Europe crashes into you in the UK, your UK insurance company will use your insurance to pay out for the damage and won't even bother trying to recoup the costs.
- precommunicator 4y agoMaybe in practice, but legally any third party liability insurance from any EU+Green Card (see https://www.cobx.org https://www.cobx.org) countries have to have representative in any other country, and definitely are liable.
- gadders 4y agoYes, but I think the insurance companies have done a cost benefit analysis of spending 3 weeks on the phone vs dinging someone else for the £2k or whatever the accident cost.
- precommunicator 4y agoBut... How is that different from being dinged by someone from UK?
- gadders 4y agoI would imagine if a UK insurer calls up another UK insurer, things get resolved in an orderly fashion, especially as stuff will tend to net out over time. They can also go to a UK court to resolve if it ever came to it.
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- willyt 4y agoMost other EU countries have no-fault insurance; you don't need to establish whose fault the accident was in the EU.
- gadders 4y agoIn the UK, whether an accident was your fault or not will affect the cost of your premium when you renew your insurance.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoI've heard all manner of Xenophobic nonsense, and I don't take it seriously unless evidenced.
- gadders 4y agoUnderstandable. Let me just set up a peer reviewed study for you to confirm what common sense might already tell you.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoI'm sorry that you mistake confirmation bias of your existing prejudices for "common sense", but it very much is not that.
- gadders 4y agoNo, no common sense angle here at all: https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-rank?continent=europe https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-rank?co... Virtue signal received loud and clear though.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoNo, no evidence received at all. "you've heard" and that's good enough for you, and you'll defend it because you want to believe. As expected. Bullshit signal received loud and clear though.
- esperent 4y ago> pay out for the damage I mean, cool, but I was rather thinking about criminal liability i.e. when negligence of the remote driver causes death of another road user.