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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay thanks. I told my mother about this and she thought it was totally dishonest. "If you don't want to fix the car, then what are they paying you for?". I kinda reasoned that the money was due me regardless because the person hit my car. My mother reasoned that because this isn't an emergency (as in, I need to pay $1200 in order to not be evicted), spending the money on anything else is fraud. [/quote]

[b]You pay your premiums for a reason.[/b] Not dishonest. We've spent money earmarked for one thing on other things often. We've gotten credits for real estate transactions on inspection items we didn't actually care about then never did the work. According to your mother that would be dishonest too.[/quote]

Yes, people do pay their premiums for a reason and it’s not so that they can pay off other drivers’ unrelated debt. The driver who hit OP’s car will see a premium increase as a result of OP’s claim. He paid those premiums to mitigate damage or loss that he caused, not to pay off OP’s credit card debt or student loans.

OP, let your own actions serve as a lesson to you to drive carefully. There are a lot of other people out there who would be happy to file a claim against you in a hot second if they thought they’d get a windfall.[/quote]

OP's car will still have unrepaired damage, so the value of the car decreases. The damage is the lower of the total car value and the repair cost. Imagine that your car is totalled and you got $2,000 for it. Are you going to buy another $2,000 car with it? Assume that you can't afford a $2,001+ car.[/quote]

This x 100.

I drove this awesome beater right out of college, and some asshole rear ended me.  The car was worth nearly nothing, but it was a great dependable, well maintained car. I got $3K for it, and it really pissed me off.  I was not able to get a similarly well running car for $3K.[/quote]

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