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Smashed windscreen at soccer. Who's responsible?

  • 15-07-2017 9:16pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭


    Hi All,
    Was at a junior club soccer match and a very stray ball smashed my windscreen. Just wondering if this has happened before. I was told the insurance of the club I was at should cover the cost. And input would be a help.
    Thanks
    Kevin


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    It should go under the club's insurance. They probably have something for accidental damage.
    What did the club say?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭cruizer101


    Never mind the insurance sign that kid up if he has the power to put a soccer ball through a windscreen :pac:

    See can you get the club insurance to cover it although they might be covered by it a risk you take parking next to pitch. If not it shouldn't affect your own insurance to claim for it, windscreen cover normally doesn't count


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    If you knowingly park your vehicle in an area where stray footballs are a regular occurance, you are deemed to run the risk yourself. I would not see the club liable


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭Geezy


    You probaly have windscreen cover on your policy nyway which shouldn't affect your no claims bonus if you use it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭NUTLEY BOY


    BTW if you are a member of the club and it is an unincorporated association you will not be able to claim from them.

    Generally, you would have to prove fault on the parts of the child who kicked the ball or the club. Those prospects seem remote on the facts.

    I have seen a similar problem over the years at cricket clubs where a hit for 6 is signified by the dull thud of the windscreen and a look of amazement on the batsman's face that he actually hit a 6 and that he also hit a car in the process. Parking at a sports club is often deemed to be an acceptance of the risk of this event even though it is very remote.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    Geezy wrote: »
    You probaly have windscreen cover on your policy nyway which shouldn't affect your no claims bonus if you use it.

    DON'T.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭mikeybrennan


    grogi wrote: »
    DON'T.

    Care to expand on that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,403 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Care to expand on that?

    Yeah, I'm curious too as it's often the case that windscreen cover is one of the best features, as in you call out the repair company who fix it on the spot and you simply give them your insurance details. No hassle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭mikeybrennan


    Maybe it's one of those things you have to notify potential insurers and they jack up your quote?

    The way the insurance market is going the government will have to step in because it will be affecting the economy badly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,149 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Absolutely no problem claiming if you have windscreen cover.

    That's what it's theee for.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I'd be inclined to use my included windscreen cover, even if the club's insurance would cover it. My policy wouldn't be affected, but the club's would, and it's hard enough raising funds to run clubs as it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,508 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Just be careful claiming off the club. It doesn't tend to go down well if you have kids involved in soccer with them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    If you knowingly park your vehicle in an area where stray footballs are a regular occurance, you are deemed to run the risk yourself. I would not see the club liable

    So there is no spots lined out to park cars there i gather.. What are they for then.. Public liability and all that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    jimmynokia wrote:
    So there is no spots lined out to park cars there i gather.. What are they for then.. Public liability and all that.

    The principle is 'volenti non fit injuria', which means, if you consent, you have no right of action. Therefore, if you park at the side of a pitch to watch a game, you know stray balls can leave the field of play, so you run the risk.

    If a motorist is passing the same pitch and the same ball damages his car, he does have a right of action. He was just driving lawfully on the public highway.

    Hope it makes sense


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    Care to expand on that?

    Because you would have a claim on your policy that will drag behind you for years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭mikeybrennan


    grogi wrote: »
    Because you would have a claim on your policy that will drag behind you for years.
    Is this fact or opinion?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    Is this fact or opinion?

    Are you contesting the statement that if you claim from your insurance you have a claim?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭mikeybrennan


    I'm curious as to whether what you say is correct or not

    I would like to see it corroborated by other posters


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,759 ✭✭✭ASOT


    1 windscreen claim wont effect your policy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    I'm curious as to whether what you say is correct or not

    I would like to see it corroborated by other posters

    @Sue Pa Key Pa will tell that 'this is absolutely not the case, the insurers are always fair'.

    Reality is that even if it does not affect your NCB, you have to disclose it for future quotation - typically for next five years - and it WILL affect many of the quotes you get. Very often you will not be quoted at all, because of the recent claim.


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    grogi wrote: »
    @Sue Pa Key Pa will tell that 'this is absolutely not the case, the insurers are always fair'.

    Reality is that even if it does not affect your NCB, you have to disclose it for future quotation - typically for next five years - and it WILL affect many of the quotes you get. Very often you will not be quoted at all, because of the recent claim.

    Maybe, but I was paying €600/year in the year I claimed for a windscreen. The following year I got my insurance down to €350.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,759 ✭✭✭ASOT


    grogi wrote: »
    @Sue Pa Key Pa will tell that 'this is absolutely not the case, the insurers are always fair'.

    Reality is that even if it does not affect your NCB, you have to disclose it for future quotation - typically for next five years - and it WILL affect many of the quotes you get. Very often you will not be quoted at all, because of the recent claim.

    What we ask word for word is, Have you had an accident or claim regardless of blame, excluding one windscreen claim in the last five years.

    So to the op youll be fine with the majority of companies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    grogi wrote: »
    @Sue Pa Key Pa will tell that 'this is absolutely not the case, the insurers are always fair'.

    Reality is that even if it does not affect your NCB, you have to disclose it for future quotation - typically for next five years - and it WILL affect many of the quotes you get. Very often you will not be quoted at all, because of the recent claim.

    Just to add, a few years ago my mother got her windscreen replaced. All was fine until she went to switch insurers two years later and had 'a claim' made. Just read the small print I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    ASOT wrote: »
    What we ask word for word is, Have you had an accident or claim regardless of blame, excluding one windscreen claim in the last five years.

    So to the op youll be fine with the majority of companies.

    Yes, you represent majority of companies ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    Basil3 wrote: »
    Maybe, but I was paying €600/year in the year I claimed for a windscreen. The following year I got my insurance down to €350.

    The sole mention of yearly premium of €350 makes this history hard to believe at all ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Geezy wrote: »
    You probaly have windscreen cover on your policy nyway which shouldn't affect your no claims bonus if you use it.
    While the insurer you are with might not consider the no claims bonus unaffected, other insurers will.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    Victor wrote: »
    While the insurer you are with might not consider the no claims bonus unaffected, other insurers will.

    You're mixing two things:
    - NCB - it will not be affected. This is the discount you have earned with your current policy. It will be recognised by other insurers.

    For example, at the renewal you earned 60% discount which represents 5 years claim free driving with your insurer. Any other insurer will offer you a corresponding 5 year bonus malus discount. I haven't seen a policy where a windscreen claim would affect your NCB.

    - base premium - this MIGHT be affected. Hell, people are reporting their premium go up because they were NOT AT FAULT, but now represent 'higher risk' Hard to imagine the claim when the proposer is at fault, would not increase the base premium...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I'm curious as to whether what you say is correct or not

    I would like to see it corroborated by other posters

    I've claimed for two windscreens in the last ten years or so. Hasn't dented my premiu at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭mikeybrennan


    endacl wrote: »
    I've claimed for two windscreens in the last ten years or so. Hasn't dented my premiu at all.

    Have you switched insurers in that time

    I'd be wary of claiming now until this issue is clarified one way or the other

    I always presumed a windscreen was a free claim,so to speak


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Have you switched insurers in that time
    Yep. No issue. Windscreen is one of the things (possibly the only thing...) that Irish insurance companies do properly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭NUTLEY BOY


    Victor wrote: »
    While the insurer you are with might not consider the no claims bonus unaffected, other insurers will.

    And there is the point - read the policy as insurers do vary in their terms and their interpreatations.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭mikeybrennan


    NUTLEY BOY wrote: »
    And there is the point - read the policy as insurers do vary in their terms and their interpreatations.

    but is it the point?

    surely you will carry the full NCD forward if the windscreen cover is an extra on your existing policy


    how can it be misinterpreted by a new insurer if you still have it?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Just to add, a few years ago my mother got her windscreen replaced. All was fine until she went to switch insurers two years later and had 'a claim' made. Just read the small print I suppose.

    When I switched insurer, the new insurer tried the same thing with me. I showed them with my renewal quote that my NCB was unaffected and was still at its maximum. They requoted me with a lower price.

    I reckon insurers just try to get away with it if they can.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    surely you will carry the full NCD forward if the windscreen cover is an extra on your existing policy


    Just generally speaking and I've said this before, the whole process of NCBs is a marketing tool by insurers and have no legal basis. Any insurer can ignore your bonus, even if you never had a claim in 50 years. Just be concerned about the premium & terms of the policy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    Just generally speaking and I've said this before, the whole process of NCBs is a marketing tool by insurers and have no legal basis. Any insurer can ignore your bonus, even if you never had a claim in 50 years. Just be concerned about the premium & terms of the policy.

    It is not just marketing tool. It is used to qualify risk as well.

    A driver with 5 years NCB is considered lower risk than otherwise identical driver without any NCB. The one without NCB very often will not be even quoted.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭1874


    Basil3 wrote: »
    Maybe, but I was paying €600/year in the year I claimed for a windscreen. The following year I got my insurance down to €350.

    Who were you with and who did you move to! any other details/circumstances which affected the quote?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    1874 wrote: »
    Who were you with and who did you move to! any other details/circumstances which affected the quote?

    Sorry, had to double check. Actually went from €600 to €415. ~€350 must have been when we paid the balance after initial deposit.

    Went from 123.ie (quote for renewal was over 1k) to its4women. Unfortunately, not gonna be the same this year, as the Mrs has had an 'incident' :D

    Oh, and also used a €35 discount code found online.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    grogi wrote: »
    It is not just marketing tool. It is used to qualify risk as well.

    A driver with 5 years NCB is considered lower risk than otherwise identical driver without any NCB. The one without NCB very often will not be even quoted.

    It has fallen into casual use as a risk assessment feature. My point is that it is not a legal document and does not have to be considered by a potential insurer

    As for your example, a driver of 20 years (claim free) under an open fleet policy would be considered a lower risk, but he has no paper to back it up.

    Both drivers have an equal prospect of having a serious accident today, a NCB does not make you immune.


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