vapo }. Rentember 18, 197
COU

My claims to distinction are limited, But at least
I’m one of the very few insured motorists In
history who have managod to avold being stung:
for a $100 deductible collision penalty through the

ood offices of a taxl company. I was reminded of
t the other day, when sorting out somo ancient
correspondence for the garbage ean, |

The story started one night
B good many years ago, Whon
i loft my car parked outside
our home o9 usual, because
our ronted pad tn those days
was not palatial enough to
boast a driveway, The next
morning | emerged to find
the driver's side well and
truly aide-swiped = and |
don't mean just a few
acratches,

AGED A LOT

The entire door panel was
crumpled, with a couple of
feet of body panol on elthor
wide of it dented and sgored,

_ Admittedly, Bloody Mary (as
we'd christened her bavause
of her firetruck red palnt=
work) Was no longer a girl »
but she'd certainly aged a
whole lot more overnight,

Her assailant had not, of
course, loft his visiting card,
So having the damage fixed
was golig to cost me the
8100 deductible collision
specified on my insurance
polly,

Now those were the days
when 8100 was atill quite a
hefty chunk of money = and

oung Alexander, struggling
v false both a school-age
family, and a couple of
thousand for down payment
on a house of his own, was
already up to his ears from
one pay day to the next,
Fortunatdly the car door still
closed quite firmly, So we
decided to postpone the
repalr job for a while and
revonclic ourselves to drivin
around in a alx-year-ol
Plymouth that tooked as if it
had beon salvaged’ from a
Demolition Darby,

 ftueh so

cars passed and

adn’t got around to forking
out the 8100 needed to make
Bluody Mary beautiful again,
It was beginning to look as if
the poor old girl might carry
her scars to her grave,

PATIENCE REWARDED
Thon, ong apelng morning,

the unbollevable happened, |

Just as | was panaliy an
Intersection with right of
way, & tant came through the
Intersection stop algn with-
out sto ping an
Bloody Mary's door and side
punoliing in previsaly ‘the
wame plave as her nocturnal
visitor had done two years
oarller,

This, 1 sald, iu the good,
Lord'y soward tu those wh
dro patlont, Alenandur,

Within five minutes, wut
monud by radio, tho taxt
vOMpuny sUpUrVINOY appUir
vd on the avony, noted down

belted.

iA

the details and put me In
touch with his insurance
adjuster, 3 felt rather sorry
for tha taxl driver, who stoned
by in allenve throughout the
proveadings, looking on the
verge of tears. But it le rather

naughty, atter all, to ignore °

stop aligns,

When the adjuster com
pleted hin inspection of the
damage the next day, he
turned to me with a barel
vonvoaled arin of trump
and sald: "Mer, Alexander,
there are these old seratches
that Indicate your door and
sida panels wore already
damaged before yesterday's
vollislon.”

4

8200 “ADJUSTMENT”

'Correct,'’ | roplied, ‘but
1 don't see what difforenve
that makos to the very
obvious damage caused by
your own client,"

He shook his head, ''I’m
‘afrald wo'll have to make a
cout adjustmont, ‘Mr, Alex:
ander."’ He didn't look at all
afrald, He looked gloating,

The “adjustment” fetter
arrived two days later. The
ropalt eutimate, it sald was
$395, But bocauso of the
evidence of carlior damago |

muat contribute 8200, The.

insurance company would
pay the balance of | 195,

1 wrote back by return
repeating my viewpoint tha
any previous damage was no
business of theirs, | wanted
full restitution for the dam:

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_ Space
, doubled

The,
6328,000

age vaused by thelr ellent,
the tax! company) whieh was
nelfevident,

This was the beginning of
8 ding-dong corrospondenve
between myself and the
Insurance adjusters, which
lanted a couple of weeks,
With all of 8260 at stake they
wore bonny fighters =» and
nelther of us gave an Inet,

worth of fund

fines, wl
fililion extension to the West

At a !lbrary board meetin
last week library
members endorsed a low bid
of 81, 061,900 from Wontar

A NIGH LETTER

Thon, suddenly, | reallaed
the reasonableness of thelr
Viewpoint, Why, Indeed,
should they pay to repair the
two-year-did damage as well
as the damage done by the
pondliatory and unesstarel

rolllate ,
in ry and understan for W

project,

cll's representative on the

eat

| told ‘them | wasn't
inglating on a complete
ropalr jov, All | asked was
that they sestore the door
and slde panels to the
were in

"In 1978 counell
budgeted 8540,000 for
expansion and the

oy library
immediately before the taxl funds |
hit them, That would satisfy ; arOne inca the

3

my claim completely, provincia F overnment will

e sufficient to cover oxpen:
soa,’ he added,
It was-a roally nice letter
and for the next week there
was dead silence from the
adjusters, Finally one of
them called me,

We've authorlaed the work
to go ahead, Mr, Alexander.

uM can take your car in
today.’ There was a touch of
sadness in his voice,

Five days later 1 collected
Blood ary,

long last to all hor former
boauty with immaculate new
door and side panels, and an —
oxcollent matching paint job.

I never hoard another word
about the 8200 they'd de:
manded, Not, perhaps, bolng
accustomed to swoot reason:
ableness on the part of
claimants, | guess they just
wrote It off to experlonce,

With the additional space
_ and the need fo
maintenance cost will neces:

sarily increase. The Increase

use of more olectricity . for
lighting,'’ McAllster said, /

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