Question about solicitor letter

robarmstrong

Hi all!

Long story short a friend of mine was in an incident where she pulled out of a side road onto a main road and was hit by a driver with no lights on at night, I’m not too sure who admitted liability and obviously there’s two sides to every story but I was catching up with her today and she told me the individual had a solicitor send out a letter requesting/demanding “written admission of liability together with an undertaking to compensate our client for injuries and losses sustained as a result of the said accident.”

Is this normal? I ask because I was actually involved in an incident myself where I was hit by a driver who had no lights on at night (I had a witness and photographic/video evidence from a nearby cctv camera) and I never received a letter like this even though my insurance company tried to hold me liable (even after they had the video footage, until my own solicitor dictated to them that although I pulled out onto a main road, driving with no lights on at night is a breach of the RTA and would void any issues of liability as a law has been broken).

I thought all correspondence was done through insurance companies?

Cheers,

Eggs For Dinner

Pass it to the insurer. The initial correspondence is always addressed to the person who is the subject of the action. Forward subsequent correspondence in the same way, unanswered

robarmstrong

Ah right I never knew that! I’ll let her know.

How would the solicitor have gotten her details (address and such) anyways, just out of curiosity?

4ensic15

robarmstrong wrote: »

Ah right I never knew that! I’ll let her know.

How would the solicitor have gotten her details (address and such) anyways, just out of curiosity?

From the garda.

robarmstrong

Cheers guys!

Was in her same situation before but obviously her experience is different, I didn’t have any correspondence with anyone other than my own insurance company even when third party tried to fraudulently claim.

Appreciate the answers!