Originally Posted by SLO_Town
Originally Posted by skyactiv
My dad is a retired attorney. Your daughter needs to do a free consultation with a good law firm. If this happened in California, your wife and daughter would most likely get $100K for emotional distress. In the SE U.S., who knows.
The property insurance?
So some guy offs himself and you want to sue the building owner? Why is that?
Scott
That had been suggested to me as well from an outside source. The main thought behind it was that this recent incident is the 3rd or 4th in 2 years. Whether that makes the building owners liable for not putting up extended railings, who knows. Seems a bit of a stretch. For now, the incident is in the insurance companies hands. How I go forward from here is up to them. Should they decide to fix the car I will be going up to get it and bring it back home. I do not want to have it repaired 350 miles away. There's no way a repair shop gets it right the first time out and I'm not driving it back up there to have them correct it. Even if I have to foot the bill for a tow dolly, I'm sure I can get a friend with a truck to help me go fetch.
As for damage under the hood.
Shattered valve cover
Core Support
Shattered coolant lines
Appears as though the firewall has been compromised/bent
All the body damage, hood/fender/bumper/etc
All of the driving aids are knocked offline as well, camera and radar
That's what I saw with about a 30-second inspection while waiting for the tow truck.
As for PTSD, The kid is already in therapy for the last accident (The one that took out my Wife's Accord, again not their fault, leveled by a box truck) so this will just be added on top of that. For me, its just daily stress that I deal with(Law Enforcement). As cold and unfeeling as it sounds, I don't really care about the dude dying, he made his selfish choice and now I'm having to deal with the consequences of that as a completely innocent bystander. If he has any estate to go after, I likely will. Does it suck? Yep, it sure does, but plenty of us are playing this adult game that have to pay for our own choices, and so should he, even in death.
Think that covers everything, really just waiting around for the adjuster to tell us what they're going to do.