Auto Insurance Claims/total loss

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Expert: - 8/20/2009


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My daughter's car was totalled in an accident.  Her insurance company is low balling her in offering an amount which would not return her to the state she enjoyed before the accident.  What should she do.  I told her not to sign any release presented to her.

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Hello Ernest,

If its her own insurer, they should not be trying to get her to sign a release. That's illegal (but that's what AAA tries to do). Her insurer is probably using CCC or ADP to lowball her car. I could write a small book on how to overcome this, but it's already been done, and very well done. For $6.00 (currently 75% off sale price) you can get an eBook entitled "Total Loss Auto for Insureds" at UClaim.com with a money back guarantee.

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Ron Cercone

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How to handle automobile total loss claims. I am the president of UClaim.com, which sells 29 different eBooks I have written on how to maximize various types of auto, home and business claims and how to get coverage on denied claims. You may view their tables of contents online. Also available are very specialized eBooks such as on EUO (Examination Under Oath) for example. Also available is an assortment of policy forms used by the most popular insurers. The eBooks have a money back guarantee and currently include personal consultation with Ron Cercone.

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I have been adjusting insurance claims since 1980. 1980 to 1995 adjusting for many insurers (6 years as an independent adjuster with my own company). Currently working as a public adjuster in California, since 1995. I'm one of the few public adjusters who has handled automobile damage and total loss claims.

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CAPIA (California Association of Public Adjusters).

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BA 1975 in History and Industrial Arts. Full CV at UClaim.com .

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