What is the name of your state? california
My husband was just in a car accident where he was at fault (ran a red per police report) and hit another car that had a 6month pregnant driver. She was able to get out of car and appeared ok, they took her via ambulance to the hospital. A couple days later she called us and said she and the baby were ok, her back her some and "we will see when the baby is born". She was concerned about getting her car fixed.
The next day he called her and she said she just left her lawyers office and is no longer able to talk to anyone.
Of course we want to take responsiblity of anything we have really caused. My biggest fear at the time was preterm labour and the baby dying or having severe long term health issues.
Now that that is not the case I am wondering what they can blame on the car accident after the baby is born? and for how long do we have to worrry. IE when the child is 2 years old and not talking can they say it was the car accident?
Our insurance only has minimal bodily injury 15,000 dolars. So my questions are what can we be sued for? How long do we have to worry about being sued? and can we loose our house? we were about to add on but my husband wants to put a hold on everything until we find out if we can loose it all. Is there something we should due to financial protect ourselves.
Also should we be calling our insurance to find out what it going on or should we just lay low?
Thankyou for your replys as i am also 5 months pregnant you can image how upsetting this has been for us.
My husband was just in a car accident where he was at fault (ran a red per police report) and hit another car that had a 6month pregnant driver. She was able to get out of car and appeared ok, they took her via ambulance to the hospital. A couple days later she called us and said she and the baby were ok, her back her some and "we will see when the baby is born". She was concerned about getting her car fixed.
The next day he called her and she said she just left her lawyers office and is no longer able to talk to anyone.
Of course we want to take responsiblity of anything we have really caused. My biggest fear at the time was preterm labour and the baby dying or having severe long term health issues.
Now that that is not the case I am wondering what they can blame on the car accident after the baby is born? and for how long do we have to worrry. IE when the child is 2 years old and not talking can they say it was the car accident?
Our insurance only has minimal bodily injury 15,000 dolars. So my questions are what can we be sued for? How long do we have to worry about being sued? and can we loose our house? we were about to add on but my husband wants to put a hold on everything until we find out if we can loose it all. Is there something we should due to financial protect ourselves.
Also should we be calling our insurance to find out what it going on or should we just lay low?
Thankyou for your replys as i am also 5 months pregnant you can image how upsetting this has been for us.