Automobile Accidents

• Insurance companies undervaluing "totalled" cars?

  Staff Writer | February 23, 2006 6:07 PM | 0 CommentsBoise, ID

  There's a great article on Insure.com about the way in which many insurance companies decide just how much your "totalled" car is worth. Disclosures in recent litigation have revealed that (gasp) many insurance companies tend to stray away from the standard Kelly Blue Book and instead use value databases that result in much lower car values. Apparently, to the shock of...well, no one, this is...

• Insurance Company pays "When Pigs Fly"

  Staff Writer | February 15, 2006 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsBoise, ID

  A jury in Boulder, CO, recently hit American Family Insurance with a $3 million verdict over the company's refusal to pay valid insurance claims. The jury heard testimony from former American Family Insurance employees that the company made a habit of intentionally and willfully denying claims of motorists injured in car accidents to save money. While the company continues to deny any...

• Wise Sentenced In Car Accident That Killed Two

  Staff Writer | January 20, 2006 3:57 PM | 0 CommentsBoise, ID

  Cheryl Wise received two fifteen-year sentences for two counts of vehicular manslaughter in a Hailey courtroom last Friday. Last July, after drinking six beers, Wise swerved into oncoming traffic where she crashed into a Suburban carrying seven passengers. Two were killed in the accident while the other five suffered minor injuries.According to MagicValley.com:It was later reported that Wise...