Norwich Union/minster Law Help Please!!!!!!

[friendgeorge]

Hi all

well i have posted on the above back in Feb, but today we has the shock of or lives, sorry this is long, but i have to explain. Well back in oct 06 we had an accident on a local roundabout a nice lady hit the driver back sides of lovley clio, and made a mess of it, she was in the wrong lane, well months have gone on and we saw a medical doctor due to the injuries we substained in the accident, and tesco are her insurer, they are not having any of it. Anyway NU who are our company sent an investigator last week to the rondabout to have a look, well this rondabout is nutorious it had 16 accidents last year where we had ours, and she came to the conclsion that de to her not being able to stop on the rondabout due to it being too deangerous, she came to the conclusion that it was 50/50 . I rang my solicitor this morning at misnster law and he is a well not very approtchible, and he said my only chocies were 1) accept 50% liability, or go to court and have to accept about 80% liability, cos the judge wold say i was wasting theor time, i should just accept 50% liability. WELL WE ARE NOT ANUSED AND TAMPING, that stupid B***h hit us and we have to accept that it was 50% our fault, so what do you think please help, i am in bits over this and don't know what to say, also in Jan 07 we had a letter from our solicitor saying that tesco had offered us a money figure regarding compo, when i just asked him about it he did not know what i was on about? this is worrying me anyone else been with NU and minster law

[Rob S]

It's a bit difficult to understand the circumstances of what happened, but am I right in thinking that you were hit in the rear by another vehicle and now the third party insurer is trying to say it should be a 50/50 settlement?

Can you explain the circumstances of the accident more clearly so that we can advise you as best we can?

[friendgeorge]

Hi Rob here's what happened, myself and Dh were going arond the roundabout taking the 3rd exit, while on the rouundabout a woman appeard from nowhere and hit us on the far back driver side of thre car span us around and we were facing oncoming traffic, the whole driverside (back) was a mess, we think that she was trying to take the 2nd exit and missed it so got in our lane to go back around the roundabout, but she said we just came from nowhere in the wrong lane. Anyway Minster law are usless and yesterday we had to agree 50/50 as my solicitor said we did not have a chance in hell in court as the judge would say we are waisting his time and we should just accept 50/50, so we have lost 2 1/2 years no claim and 50% of any comp and excess we paid, were gutted, that stupid b***h got away with it basically i just hope she had years and years of noclaim and she loses half of what ever she had, got any advice

[Rob S]

I'm amazed that with you having been hit from behind by the third party that it has been settled as a 50/50. Has the solicitor advised you that the next stage would be court proceedings? What is your insurers view on this suggested settlement by the solicitor?

[friendgeorge]

Hi again rob, my solicitor advosed we accept the 50/50 which is a shock to us as well, he's a bit of a pig to be honest, as we fell like we are at a loss with him, what wold you do?

[Rob S]

I would seek a second opinion to be honest. You don't seem to have any confidence in him and I get the impression he is taking the path of least resistance.