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Ace_of_Spades
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Registered: Aug 2005
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Arrow Got Sued for about 330K ... shockin amount ... Need advice

About 2 years ago, when I was a stupid teen I got into an accident with TTC. I was fully at fault since I failed to stop at the stop sign and due to bad timing a TTC bus was just passing by in a perpendicular direction.
In the result of the collision my dad's 2003 Accord got ride off. I could have died since the bus hit me from the driver side, many called it a miracle that I was 100% healthy. However someone in the bus was apparently injured and was taken away by paramedics.
I really thought that the crisis was over till just now that I received a "statement of Claim" in which the plaintiff claims against me, my dad, TTC and the bus driver for:


  • the sum of 750K for general damages
  • the sum of 250K for special damages
  • prejudgment intrest on all sums awarded from sep28,1999 to the date of payment or judgment pursuant to the provision of section 138 of the courts of justice act, 1984;
  • their costs of this action; and
  • post-judgment intrest on all sums awarded from the date of judgment herein to date of payment pursuant to the provision of section 139 of the courts of Justice Act, 1984;


I have 20 days to defend this claim and I should react soon.
And I really am horrified at the moment and absolutely hate myself for what happened, however I wanna deal with this myself and I need some help and advice.
Basically any input would be appreciated.

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DigDeep
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Toronto, Ontario

can't offer any advice, but only wish you the best of luck dude......

good you alive and healthy - shitty you now have to deal with this.

good luck


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Big Boss
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Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada

Talk to a lawyer, pronto...

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Mortyman
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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Toronto

Pay someone half that amount to have that person bumped off
Seriosuly though, I wouldn't even know where to begin if I were you man. Sorry this happened to you


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Jem_hadar
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Pandora (South of Nowhere)

whoa. holy shit. man... dont even know what to say... speachless.

my world would fucking crumpled around me the moment I'd have read that if I'd received that. fuck...


best of luck in dealing with this man... ...


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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Toronto

I assume you had liabilty insurance?

Assuming you did, then let the insurance company worry about it. That's the whole point of liability insurance

and the insurance company will fight tooth and nail to avoid paying anything.

also, unless the injuries were very severe (ie broken limbs, permanant disabled etc..) then the chances of them actually getting anything close to that amount are non existant.

but ya... call a lawyer for advice for sure.

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Jem_hadar
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Pandora (South of Nowhere)

OH YEAH! insurance should help cover if, if u had liability.

oh yeah. im loving insurance all of a sudden lol.


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and another thing... if they were able to take you to court.. no court is going to actually put a million dollar judgement against a kid. this isn't the US. they take into consideration the basis for the claim and what the person being sued can actually afford. The average person probably makes probably just over a million dollars in their entire lifetime. it's not reasonable to expect that they should work their entire life and not recieved a cent of what they make.

but ya... hopefully you had liability insurance

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That's fucking BALLS, man.
I'd honestly cry.


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monishb
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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Vancouver-Toronto-Dubai-Mumbai

As activate said check for liability insurance, and talk to a lawyer so grab the yellowpages and start calling.. I know a lawyer but i dont know if he deals with any of this kind of stuff.

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anjew
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Vancouver

GET A FUCKEN LAWYER AND HURRY.
DON'T PROCRASTINATE ON THIS!!!

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teufel-man
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I'm no expert or anything..... but yeah this obviously does seem shocking and scary at first, but i think it seems a lot worse than it actually is

first of all, as mentioned before, isnt the point of pay $xxx amount of dollars a month of car insurance so that you dont have to deal with this sorta thing personally when it happens

second of all, obviously contact a lawyer because they can obviously give you much better advice than any of us can

and third of all, the $1m claim or whatever is obviously unrealistic, otherwise you woulda probably got this lawsuit right after the thing happened, also see if they are allowed to sue you 2 years after the fact..... i am guessing this sort of thing would usually be settled out of court for a small percentage of what they are actually asking for

btw i dont actually know what i am talking about, i am just using common sense more or less

but first thing to do is talk to a lawyer

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