{"id":4297,"date":"2021-09-26T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2021-09-26T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T20:04:00","slug":"why-insurance-companies-deny-accident-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/why-insurance-companies-deny-accident-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Why insurance companies deny accident claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve tried being reasonable, hoping the insurance adjuster would do the right thing.\u00a0 You didn&#8217;t cause the wreck.\u00a0 The person <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Why-insurance-adjusters-deny-accident-claims-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Why insurance adjusters deny accident claims\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Why-insurance-adjusters-deny-accident-claims-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Why-insurance-adjusters-deny-accident-claims-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Why-insurance-adjusters-deny-accident-claims-141x120.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Why-insurance-adjusters-deny-accident-claims.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> who hit you even apologized afterward, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s all my fault.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t paying attention. I&#8217;m so sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So why is the insurance company denying my claim?\u00a0 They say I&#8217;m partially at fault, even though that&#8217;s not what happened and it certainly isn&#8217;t what the police officer wrote down as the &#8220;at fault&#8221; party in the accident report.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Unfortunately, the reason we get involved in a lot of accident cases is because the carrier isn&#8217;t doing the right thing.\u00a0 People call us for legal help, not go get rich, but to get what&#8217;s fair and just- Kevin Jones, Greenville NC Accident Lawyer\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/why-insurance-companies-deny-accident-claims\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Why insurance companies deny accident claims\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve tried being reasonable, hoping the insurance adjuster would do the right thing.\u00a0 You didn&#8217;t cause the wreck.\u00a0 The person who hit you even apologized afterward, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s all my fault.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t paying attention. I&#8217;m so sorry.&#8221; So why is the insurance company denying my claim?\u00a0 They say I&#8217;m partially at fault, even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[304,301,302,299,300,303],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motor-vehicle-accidents-blog","tag-accident-claims","tag-contrib","tag-contributory-negligence","tag-deny-claim","tag-insurance-adjusters","tag-last-clear-chance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why insurance companies deny accident claims &#8212; Your loss is their gain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If a carrier can limit how much they pay out after an accident, or better yet, deny an accident claim altogether, that&#039;s pure profit for them\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/why-insurance-companies-deny-accident-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Why insurance companies deny accident claims &#8212; 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