Biggest Insurance Claim

[surveyor]

Might be interesting...

My personal biggest payout was a fault claim where the insurance company paid out £5,000 for whiplash. The bloke had mounted a curb to avoid me, no contact! Sadly the company paid out without even contacting me or my employer, and it was not until a couple of years later that I discovered when trying to establish my NCB history.

Highest I've heard of was £25,000 when my mother managed to reverse into a clients Brand New Porsche 911 Turbo. He went a little red!

Over to you, I'm sure you can do better....

[VEA]

I'd be interested to hear some other peoples payouts too... I have only had one and not sure where it lies in the scale. It was for a serious head on collision that was technically my fault.

[SMcP114]

I got four grand when a taxi ran into the back of a bus in town. I wasn't even on the bus at the time, bought my mate's ticket off him for £20.

Am I doing this right?

[GroundEffect]

Someone rear ended my Mini on the M8 motorway a few years back. Think the total was about £3500 to fix it. It gutted the entire exhaust system.

[DIW35]

£160,000 for a written off Lamborghini.

[GoodDoc]

Nothing significant myself, but does the record go to Gary Hart? he fell asleep while driving his Land Rover, drove off the M62 at a point where the East Coast mainline wasn't protected causing the Great Heck Rail crash and a £22 Million payout by his insurers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire...

[2DDav]

£17,500 to repair a VX220 Turbo I parked in a hedge.

[Whitean3]

Friend of mine had a 7 figure payout after 6 years of legal battles, health assessments etc. Crash between a motorbike (him) and a 4x4 (which turned across his path without seeing him) effectively ended his highly paid career. He was in a bad way for a long time. The payout reflected the loss of future earnings.

[R6VED]

I suspect Rowan Atkinson's most recent claim on his Maclaren F1 may be a winner.

Charlie

[simo1863]

In my youth I ran into the back of someone on the M6 (yeah, even I'm not perfect).

Car repair was about £8k for both in total plus 6 whiplash claims (3 in my car, 2 in the one I hit). Think the total came to just under £30k for that.

I'm not sure if the authorities or highways agency claim anything for having the motorway closed and cleared though.

[ZOLLAR]

Claims involved in or heard of?
Also does personal injury count as I think I may just win (Unless R1Loon pops up)

[VEA]

ZOLLAR said:

Claims involved in or heard of?
Also does personal injury count as I think I may just win (Unless R1Loon pops up)

Involved in, I think.

£160,000 for the Lambo above is winning so far.

I think I might have to get mine off my chest, I've never posted about it on here.

[555 Paul]

R6VED said:

I suspect Rowan Atkinson's most recent claim on his Maclaren F1 may be a winner.

Charlie

Didn't Rowan pay for quite a significant chunk of the repair himself?

[ZOLLAR]

R6VED said:

I suspect Rowan Atkinson's most recent claim on his Maclaren F1 may be a winner.

Charlie

Vehicle damage possibly, injury and associated costs not even close.

[rigga]

R6VED said:

I suspect Rowan Atkinson's most recent claim on his Maclaren F1 may be a winner.

Charlie

Although expensive to get his f1 repaired, I suspect the poster 3 above has got it nailed on.

[surveyor]

ZOLLAR said:

Claims involved in or heard of?
Also does personal injury count as I think I may just win (Unless R1Loon pops up)

Chuck 'em in. Why not - there is not a prize...

[rigga]

Purity14 said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-109379/Sel...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire...

£22 Million.

Edited by Purity14 on Tuesday 24th September 16:36

Already mentioned ....

[alangla]

ZOLLAR said:

R6VED said:

I suspect Rowan Atkinson's most recent claim on his Maclaren F1 may be a winner.

Charlie

Vehicle damage possibly, injury and associated costs not even close.

Depends what you count as a "vehicle" - the insurers at Great Heck had to pay out for a complete written off East Coast express train (probably several million, EDIT - the locomotive was fixable though) and a brand new diesel freight locomotive probably worth about £2.5m plus a load of wagons.

Edited by alangla on Tuesday 24th September 18:02

[ZOLLAR]

alangla said:

ZOLLAR said:

R6VED said:

I suspect Rowan Atkinson's most recent claim on his Maclaren F1 may be a winner.

Charlie

Vehicle damage possibly, injury and associated costs not even close.

Depends what you count as a "vehicle" - the insurers at Great Heck had to pay out for a complete written off East Coast express train (probably several million, EDIT - the locomotive was fixable though) and a brand new diesel freight locomotive probably worth about £2.5m plus a load of wagons.

Edited by alangla on Tuesday 24th September 18:02

Even at 2.5 million it doesn't come close to injury but yeah that easily exceeds the F1
Lets limit it to UK road legal motor vehicles

(I await a picture of a train driving down a street )

[Supernova190188]

does the Costa Concordia count?