Juriul COTY format din 59 de specialisti si jurnalisti auto a desemnat Masina anului 2010 in Europa. Punctajul maxim a fost acordat lui VW Polo, care a reusit sa stranga 347 de puncte si 59 de voturi.
Locul doi a fost castigat de Toyota iQ-337 puncte si 58 de voturi, iar urmatorii clasati in ordinea crescatoare au fost: Opel Astra-221 puncte si 55 voturi, Skoda Yeti 158 puncte si 54 voturi, Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse 155 puncte si 48 voturi, Peugeot 3008 144 puncte si 49 voturi, Citroen C3 Picasso 113 puncte si 47 voturi.
Volkswagen Polo a primit 59 de voturi din partea juriului COTY, inclusiv 25 de voturi pentru titlul de masina numarul unu in Europa. Toyota iQ a primit 58 de voturi, cu 20 de voturi pentru cea mai buna masina.
Polo a fost selectat dintr-o lista de 33 de masini noi, care au fost supuse la vot de catre jurnalistii auto europeni.
Lista de 33 de masini a fost transformata ulterior intr-una de sapte masini, cei 59 de membri ai juriului selectionand modele participante in finala.
Fiecare membru are 25 de puncte la dispozitie, pe care le putea aloca dupa cum considera, cu toate ca cel putin cinci candidati trebuiau sa primeasca puncte, iar castigatorul ales trebuia sa primeasca un punctaj mai mare decat urmatorii clasati.
Die holländische Regierung plant ein neues KFZ-Steuersystem. Ab 2012 zahlt der Autofahrer abhängig von den gefahrenen Kilometern. Das klingt prinzipiell vernünftig, so müssten diejenigen mehr entrichten, die Straße und Umwelt höher belasten. Bemerkenswert finde ich, dass die Daten via GPS ermittelt werden sollen. Das globale Satellitensystem dient eigentlich der Positionsbestimmung, zur Erfassung der zurückgelegten Kilometer wäre es nicht erforderlich.
Eine “Blackbox” mit GPS-Empfang, die in jedem KFZ auf Hollands Straßen installiert ist, dagegen bietet ungeahnte Möglichkeiten, weit über die Ermittlung der Höhe einer kilometerabhängigen KFZ-Steuererhebung hinaus: Man könnte ein komplettes Bewegungsprofil von allen Autos erstellen. Wer die Daten der “Blackbox” auswertet, weiß wann der Autofahrer wo unterwegs war und wie schnell er gefahren ist. Die Polizei hätte es einfach, beispielsweise Geschwindigkeitsübertretungen festzustellen und nachzuweisen. Das Daten-Modul könnte also als elektronischer Fahrtenschreiber verwendet werden. Sogar der Ablauf eines Verkehrsunfalls wäre im Nachhinein rekonstruierbar, es ließe sich problemlos feststellen, wer wann gebremst oder geblinkt hat oder wie hoch die Geschwindigkeit vor dem Unfall war.
Keinesfalls möchte ich der holländischen Regierung unterstellen, dass sie unter dem Vorwand einer Verkehrssteuerreform ihre autofahrenden Bürger überwachen möchte. Wir wissen doch, dass Politiker keine Hintergedanken haben und immer nur das Beste für ihr Volk wollen,…
Mich wundert nur das die Bundesregierung dergleichen bislang noch nicht in Erwägung gezogen hat.
Man muss das auch mal positiv sehen: Denkbar wäre, dass zukünftig das Multifunktionsdatenerfassungsmodul mit elektronischen Anzeigetafeln funktechnisch kommuniziert, so dass diese den Fahrer persönlich und zielgruppenorientiert informieren können:
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Ko es ar to gribēju teikt? – Vajag braukt, neapdraudot citus. Ja ir tukšs ceļa posms, skaidrs laiks, ideāli laika apstākļi, ar tehniku arī viss kārtībā, tad, kāpēc gan nē? Un 90 km/h… marazms, nu labi, tāpat mēs braucam +10, un policija netur, taču, arī tas nav pietiekoši ātri. 110 km/h jau būtu pieņemamāk. Samazinot ātrumu par 10 km/h, kā to vēlas Zivtiņš – ar to nekas netiks panāks. Tie, kuri ir atsaldēti, tāpat paliks atsaldēti… tie, kuri tagad sēņo – sēņos vēl trakāk… Vajag taisīt ceļus, izglītot vadītājus, nodrošināt drošas braukšanas skolas bez maksas, lai cilvēki iemācās savaldīt savu auto jebkurās situācijās.
In vier Wochen wird mein Auto stillgelegt und meinte nun, mir noch etwas als Erinnerung mit auf den Weg geben zu müssen.
Nachdem ich am Mittwochabend alle meine Mitfahrer in HH eingesammelt hatte, ging es auf die Autobahn. Ich freute mich schon darauf, mich mit Rikke zum Chinesischessen zu treffen. Kurz vor Quickborn leuchtete dann die Öl-Warnleuchte auf – kein Öl mehr drin. Ab auf den Standstreifen, Warnweste angezogen, Warndreieck aufgestellt, Mitfahrer hinter der Leitplanke platziert und ich bin los gelaufen zum letzten Rasthof, um Öl zu holen. Der war zum Glück nur 2-3km entfernt – allerdings waren zu dem Zeitpunkt meine Schuhe schon gut durchnässt.
Dort habe ich dann Öl gekauft und bin wieder zurück. Öl rein geschüttet und trotzdem wurde es als leer angezeigt. Unter’s Auto geschaut: Das Öl kam direkt wieder raus. Zu dem Zeitpunkt war schon eine Stunde vergangen, ich war klitschnass und schwitzte und fror gleichzeitig. Allerdings muss ich gestehen, dass ich das erst später gemerkt habe, als ein wenig Ruhe einkehrte.
Also ADAC gerufen und mit den Mitfahrern schon spekuliert, was das sein könnte. Zwei von denen hatten bereits ihre Rückfahrt nach HH organisiert (die Eltern der einen sind gekommen und habe auch noch eine Frau mitgenommen). Als die los fuhren kam die Polizei mit Blaulicht – was ich denn hier machen würde und ob ich sie angerufen hätte? Ich steh hier aus Spaß- klar, aber angerufen hatte ich dort nicht. Naja, die guckten sich das an und der einzige Kommentar war “Naja, das Öl aber dann schön wegmachen, ne?” und dann sind die wieder losgefahren. In dem Moment machte meine Batterie schlapp und die Warnblinker hörten auf zu blinken … Super! Jetzt leuchteten nur noch meine Warnweste und das Warndreieck (achja, hatte ich erwähnt, dass in dem Moment auch mein Handy ausging und die Frau, die noch bei mir war, keines hatte?).
Zum Glück kam dann endlich der Typ vom ADAC. Er konnte so auch nichts erkennen, außer dass Öl austrat (wusste ich schon!). Er fing dann an von wegen “Motorplatzer” und “das wird teuer” … Naja, dann ging es darum, wohin ich geschleppt werden wollte. Nach Flensburg hätte es 500 Euro gekostet – klar, hab ich auch bar bei mir. Ich bat ihn, mich zu einer freien Werkstatt in der Nähe zu bringen. Als das Auto dann aufgeladen war, sahen wir erst, dass der Liter, den ich reingekippt hatte, komplett unten wieder raus gekommen war. Der ADAC-Typ hatte aber Bindemittel dabei. Mit seinem Handy konnte ich auch Mathias anrufen, dass er sich auf den Weg macht, um mich in Norderstedt (dort war die Werkstatt) abzuholen.
Innerlich hatte ich mich schon mit hohen Abschlepp- und Reparaturkosten (das Geld brauche ich ja auch nicht unbedingt in den USA … ) angefreundet und auch mit dem Gedanken, dass heute Abend (war ja schon 22 Uhr) nichts mehr passiert. Immerhin hat der Typ von der Werkstatt dann noch unter die Haube geschaut, um festzustellen, dass es kein Motorplatzer war (Gott sei DANK!!!) und dass es nur der Öldruckschalter war. Er hatte zwar keinen passenden, aber konnte das Loch provisorisch abdichten, so dass ich auf jeden Fall noch nach Flensburg kam. Was glaubt Ihr, wie glücklich ich war. Mathias schnell angerufen, dass er wieder umdrehen kann. Immerhin war er erst 40km gefahren (noch mal an dieser Stelle ein großes Dankeschön!). Dann ging es ans Bezahlen und der Werkstatttyp meinte “gib mir 20 bar, das passt dann” (ich mein, allein das Opel-Öl, was er mir reingekippt hat, war ganz schön teuer) und dann kam der Abschlepptyp, ich solle ihm 30 Euro bar auf die Hand geben und er trägt das dann als Leerfahrt ein (hätte mich sonst 100 Euro gekostet). Mir fiel so ein großer Stein vom Herzen!
Ich machte mein Auto startklar (brauchte Starthilfe wegen der Batterie) und wollte nur schnell noch den leeren Ölkanister in der Werkstatt in den Müll werfen. Da bin ich ausgerutscht und lang hingefallen. Mein linkes Knie ist tierisch dick und blau. Aber immerhin konnte ich wieder nach Flensburg. Dort war ich dann gegen Mitternacht und hab nur noch heiß geduscht. Heute war ich dann nach dem Arztbesuch (hab mir nämlich tierisch was weggeholt und bin bis Ende der Woche krank geschrieben) schnell noch in der Werkstatt. Die haben das Provisorium innerhalb von 15min durch ein Originalteil ersetzt, was mich auch noch mal 30 Euro gekostet hat. Abgesehen vom dem Stress und dem nun Kranksein, bin ich mit einem blauen Auge (oder Knie ) davon gekommen. Das hätte deutlich teurer werden können. Aber, Glück gehabt!
Erst vermutete ich ja Schlimmes, aber das Fazit der Untersuchung: Das Fahrrad ist immer noch das gesündeste Fortbewegungsmittel in der Stadt. Und Radfahren könnte noch gesünder werden wenn noch mehr Autofahrer auf das Fahrrad umsteigen würden.
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Die meisten Tage habe ich das Glück, auf Radwegen durch Grünzüge fahren zu dürfen. Bei Regenwetter muss ich leider auch auf Strassen mit erheblichen Verkehr ausweichen, an solchen Tagen wird die Feinstaubbelastung aber wegen dem Regen geringer sein, hoffe ich zumindest.
As a Rancho Palos Verdes Accident Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Rancho Palos Verdes, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.
In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.
If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website.
First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways. As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter. They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.
Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat? As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money. To them, that means you may even be desperate. They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.
The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.
To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them. While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.
First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills. You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this. As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation. I can’t stress this enough.
You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc. Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms. Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost. Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.
Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases. And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers. When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.
You will need to obtain a copy of the police report. This is a much simpler process. Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free. You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.
You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.
You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.
You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.
Here’s a secret. In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident. It’s automatic. Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken. Why? It’s in the California insurance code. The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information. Why? They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.
Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days – the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer. The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length. Some of ours have been close to twenty pages. Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.
If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.
The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself. In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.
When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money. When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.
Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim. At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company. At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.
Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim. There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.
An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.
What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.” The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”
An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases. One more case, makes no difference to them at all. They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be. Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee. Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy. And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.
Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.
If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant. Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth. But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer. Communicate with the adjuster. Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have. You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.
Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well. They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package. Some take longer. Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty. And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer. Sometimes the negotiations can take months. If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient. Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up. I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me. You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.
We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries. You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement. If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.
The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Rancho Palos Verdes, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state. To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.
We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Zu dem Zeitpunkt war schon eine Stunde vergangen, ich war klitschnass und schwitzte und fror gleichzeitig. Allerdings muss ich gestehen, dass ich das erst später gemerkt habe, als ein wenig Ruhe einkehrte. 
Mathias schnell angerufen, dass er wieder umdrehen kann. Immerhin war er erst 40km gefahren (noch mal an dieser Stelle ein großes Dankeschön!). Dann ging es ans Bezahlen und der Werkstatttyp meinte “gib mir 20 bar, das passt dann” (ich mein, allein das Opel-Öl, was er mir reingekippt hat, war ganz schön teuer) und dann kam der Abschlepptyp, ich solle ihm 30 Euro bar auf die Hand geben und er trägt das dann als Leerfahrt ein (hätte mich sonst 100 Euro gekostet). Mir fiel so ein großer Stein vom Herzen!