Claim rejected

14th July 2010

Hi,

I had a claim rejected by the coucils insurers because the road is inspected once a year and was inspected in October 09. Obviously we had a really cold winter which caused all of the pot holes. Is there a way of proving they were at fault? or should have been inspected again due to the advers weather? or a different way of moving forward?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Replies (1)

Potholes.co.uk Expert     posted : 19/07/10 at 9:27 am

What do you want to prove they are at fault of? You will have trouble suggesting that they should have inspected more because of the bad weather - they had no resources for that because they were dealing with the bad weather.

Have you had a look at our step by step guide and the national code of good practice? You perhaps need to look at inspection methods and frequencies. 1 inspection per year is only recommended for very few types of roads.