Old 06-10-10 | 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
as aham alludes to, you've got causation, proof, and comparitive negligence problems. But if you can prove that the negligence caused the reaction that lead to the injury you're entitled to recover damages even without contact.

Other area where it comes into play is no contact actions, and fleeing, unidentified vehicle.
Thanks -- in this particular case, I'm pretty confident this hurdle could be cleared.

Just to make sure I'm understanding correctly, this means it would be necessary to initiate a civil suit against the other party? What I'm a little unclear on is why the cyclist's health insurance would be willing to take such a huge hit without trying to recover some of the losses.
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