B. Hardison
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? KY
In 1999 our then 16 year old daughter was involved in a vehicle accident. A truck was
stopped to make a left turn on a two lane road. The vehicle immediately behind the truck apparently did not recognize that it was stopped and ran into the back of it. My daughter saw what was happening and immediately applied her brakes, skidded and went under the
vehicle that had just hit the truck. The impact did no damage to the vehicle she hit, but did damage to her car. The impact was not enough to deploy her air bags. A driver behind my daughter told the State Police if it had not been for the fast actions of my daughter, there could have been more collisions as several cars were behind her. He provided the officer with his name and number in my presence. At the time of the accident, the driver of the truck told the officer and others present that she was not injured and required no medical assistance. I realize that complications can arise later
but there were seemed to be no major problems.
The insurance investigator came to our home and after talking to my daughter, deemed that the accident was unavoidable. They paid for the damages to our car and we were not contacted again UNTIL 5/6/2006.
Apparently she has been unhappy with her lawyer and said he was negligent in failing to
file a Complaint on her behalf. We received this Civil Summons as third party defendants.
She received a check from her automobile liability carrier 2/25/2006 which the lawyers state she now has 2 years to file a claim for damages against the other driver that hit her and my daughter.
Is this possible, 7 years later? We are going to see the insurance company reps tomorrow but I would like to be more aware of the language. What does Tortfeasors mean?
On the front on the summons it states that unless a written defense is made by her or an attorney on her behalf in 20 days a judgement of default may be taken against her. She was only 16 then and driving our car, how can they do this and why were we not informed before now that there was a problem?
I know this is lengthy, sorry. But I really need some help Thanks
In 1999 our then 16 year old daughter was involved in a vehicle accident. A truck was
stopped to make a left turn on a two lane road. The vehicle immediately behind the truck apparently did not recognize that it was stopped and ran into the back of it. My daughter saw what was happening and immediately applied her brakes, skidded and went under the
vehicle that had just hit the truck. The impact did no damage to the vehicle she hit, but did damage to her car. The impact was not enough to deploy her air bags. A driver behind my daughter told the State Police if it had not been for the fast actions of my daughter, there could have been more collisions as several cars were behind her. He provided the officer with his name and number in my presence. At the time of the accident, the driver of the truck told the officer and others present that she was not injured and required no medical assistance. I realize that complications can arise later
but there were seemed to be no major problems.
The insurance investigator came to our home and after talking to my daughter, deemed that the accident was unavoidable. They paid for the damages to our car and we were not contacted again UNTIL 5/6/2006.
Apparently she has been unhappy with her lawyer and said he was negligent in failing to
file a Complaint on her behalf. We received this Civil Summons as third party defendants.
She received a check from her automobile liability carrier 2/25/2006 which the lawyers state she now has 2 years to file a claim for damages against the other driver that hit her and my daughter.
Is this possible, 7 years later? We are going to see the insurance company reps tomorrow but I would like to be more aware of the language. What does Tortfeasors mean?
On the front on the summons it states that unless a written defense is made by her or an attorney on her behalf in 20 days a judgement of default may be taken against her. She was only 16 then and driving our car, how can they do this and why were we not informed before now that there was a problem?
I know this is lengthy, sorry. But I really need some help Thanks