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When you need claim support for car accident damage compensation, in South Africa you are on the right web page.
Car accident compensation claims for damages in South Africa, may cause some headache.
RAMLA is a specialist in material car accident damage claims (no bodily injuries).
(use this mail link) Contact RAMLA to analyse your case, and get a free opinion where you stand and what to do next. You can contact RAMLA 7/24 and receive a response soon.
It's so easy, just e mail your story and attach what you got to make the RAMLA claim manager understand your problem. Just draft a brief report of what had happen and send it (use this mail link) to RAMLA for free analyses and you will receive a reply soon.
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Car accident lawyers and professional claim managers to analyse, support and pursue your material car accident claim, effective and economical, nationwide in South Africa.
You will find a lot of useful information on the RAMLA (Road Accident Management & Legal Action) web pages.
First of all we have to definite what we have to understand will be full and fair motor accident damage compensation. But even before doing so, we have to clarify that the South African System of motor car accident compensation, is split off into the sector of bodily injuries, which is dealt with very different to that of material damage compensation. The web pages you are browsing currently only focus on the material and civil claim for you to receive the full and fair traffic accident damage compensation occurred to your vehicle.
The South African law say: You should be materially compensated so that you will be able to have your damaged auto repaired to the state it was in, before the traffic collision impact. That means either you cannot expect a new car (some exemptions excluded here i.e. if your motor vehicle is very much new, so saying not older than a year since being on the road the first time) if your one is fairly used and the marks of wear and tear are visibly impacting you auto value.
But even an older motor car must be repaired to manufacturer's standards to maintain the roadworthy status of the then repaired vehicle.
So to say it in short, get it back on track, but do not try to make a fortune out of it, as that can easily backfire on you. But this does not mean you have to agree to too many compromises in terms of your motor car repairs. To have your damaged car back into the state it had been before, you need to prepare a solid base of value analysis for your compensation, either by a qualified repair quotation or by a professional damage assessment.
But nothing is always stringent and you cannot take one argument alone to find the correct compensation basis. There may even be differences in what you might have to accept as motor car accident repair compensation, in either a third party claim or a claim you direct to your own comprehensive motor insurance policy.
A claim launched with you motor insurance company will have to look on what you have covered under your policy and probably have some contributions to accept, due to the content of your policy.
A 3rd party claim, directed to the perpetrator however must give you full compensation and no clauses, as insurance excess or other limitations in your insurance policy apply.
In most cases, you should have some professional support. If you want to get the matter sorted out quickly, possibly with less costs as possible, and being compensated for your car accident damage fairly, you should consider and let a car accident damage claims specialist such as RAMLA, or your local attorney working for you.
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RAMLA will be your one-stop car accident claim service in South Africa
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The most important work of a panel beater, spray painters or auto body repair workshop are to improve or repair motor car damages. In a situation of a motor car accident with another car on public roads, commonly the panel beater in the neighbourhood will be approached for a quotation to repair the vehicle accident damage and to submit such quotation to the liable party to pay for the traffic accident damage compensation.
This is most likely the easiest way to list material motor car accident damage suffered, but it is not automatically be the best way to get sufficiently damage assessment and proper record of the vehicle damage.
If you need to prove car accident damage, you should have a qualified and, very importantly, independent panel beater. If your panel beater is listed with some insurance companies and appointed as a qualified repair workshop, you may experience a tendency that they compile the quotation in favour of the insurance, to meet their requirements to reduce compensation as much as possible, but the panel beater make you believe you will have a proper vehicle accident repair.
Before you decide to use the quotation, received form your selected panel beater, as basis to your claim value, you should be convinced of the quality and professionalism of the quotation resulting from his damage assessment.
Please take note that the quality and professionalism of any car accident repair has a direct impact on the future safety and market value of your motor car. Furthermore, an incomplete or incorrect quotation may have a negative influence on a claim for compensation. If your quotation is either too high or too low, it may be detrimental to you in the court case.
A quotation that is clearly in your favour, creating a "bargain", may cause a serious risk. If your panel beater overshoots reasonable repair costs, it may put you in an uncomfortable position. If the other party proves it wrong, you may face that the claim will be found unreasonable and you might be partly liable for legal cost of the other party.
A correct and fair quotation is very important.
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RAMLA (Road accident management and Legal Action), is a specialist in material car accident management in South Africa.
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Generally spoken, guarantees are very often limited and subject to terms and conditions. Without guarantees, however, you can almost do the motor vehicle repairs yourself, if you are capable.
The South African government released the new Customer Protection Act in April 2011. This act shifts most liabilities to the "supplier", which will include panel beaters. The Act was created in favour of consumers, and will have tremendous positive influence to the improvement of such guarantees in general. The new law will overrule many of the restrictions in the terms and conditions in favour to the consumer.
RAMLA do expect some basic guarantees generally anticipated by a critical customer for work and services done by its network partners.
Let us know what you know about such guarantees.
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RAMLA (Road Accident Management and Legal Action) created a network of listed panel beaters willing and able to work according to RAMLA standards and member expectations.
Those experts will provide qualified quotations and do excellent repairs. Take the advantage and utilise these expert network partners for your needs.
Let us know what you know about such guarantees
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As mentioned before, a qualified panel beater in the RAMLA network should deliver quality, professional work throughout. Further deliver complete and reliable quotations, which enable the victim of a motor car accident, to utilise such quotation to claim the motor vehicle damage compensation, as to bring back the damaged vehicle in a position as before the car crash.
Good service of a panel beater will include the support of claims in terms of expert witness testimony in court when needed, and to do an excellent repair job in time.
Please take note that not all panel beaters will deliver such quality work. Do you have something to contribute? You are welcome to do so.
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A repair quotation designed to estimate damage to a motor car involved in a vehicle accident, must be accurate, complete and well documented.
The panel beater should have sufficient expertise to fill out such a quotation and examine the matter carefully. In terms of more complicated traffic accident damages, it is recommended a professional vehicle damage assessment.
Analysing car accident damage, and filing the resulting quotation documenting the complete damage, requires a lot of attention and knowledge. If you gather more than one repair quotation they should not differ much, as the car accident damage to be assessed, will always be the same.
Panel beaters listed with RAMLA will be trustworthy and will do a professional job.
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A police report is more accurately called an Accident Report (AR) and will be identified by a report number. The accident report entails a standard listing of circumstances and participants involved in a collision.
The police officers in charge to protocol the vehicle accident will just do his or her duty to get the details that the report requires. He/she also has to give a short statement on how he/she believes the accident happened according what they see and hear from the participants on the scene of the car accident.
If you are happy with the content of that statement documenting the circumstances of the road accident, you should try to get all participants to sign this particular section separately as that may give you proof of what happened and may indicate on the liability.
Once signed as agreed by the participants, it is not that easy to change the information on the motor vehicle accident report. But keep in mind that the data of the report will not grant any official proof.
To act calmly and determined one should be prepared for the challenges of what is needed to document an accident properly.
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When you are involved in a car accident, the local police can be of assistance, at least to fill out the accident report (AR). Please take note that the local police, when called to attend a motor car accident on a public road are neither expert in law nor in damage assessment and they cannot justify any liability or damages. They can only protocol as good as possible to enable the parties to arrive on a position of liability or if that is not possible, to get the details in front of a judge/magistrate to decide.
It is very advisable that you document all possible information of the car accident and damages additionally on your own, containing such as traffic signs, road conditions, weather conditions if remarkable, behaviour of the participants and details of the witnesses (don't forget to note their contact details and motivate them to sign an affidavit in a later stage). Photographs are also of the outmost importance.
Just to have the police accident report, does not mean that you have all the proper documentation for your claim to be compensated for the traffic accident damage.
Please keep in mind that the police will not be able to judge in any way, to find out who will be liable.
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In most of motor car accidents in South Africa, it will not be granted that the parties involved agree mutually to liability and damages suffered to the motor cars.
When one need to fight for any vehicle accident damage compensation it must be proven the fact of liability and the material damage to property.
The claimant - the one who likes to be compensated from the - defendant has the honour to proof all the facts if the car accident circumstances and damages are on dispute between the parties.
To act calmly and determined one should be prepared for the challenges of what is needed to document an accident properly.
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Usually, when you are involved in a motor car accident and suffered material damage, compensation must be enforced. This will either be easy or rather complicated - that will depend on the parties involved.
A traffic accident claim must always be supported by facts and proof, and must be submitted to the liable party. They have to accept the claim or dispute your material vehicle accident damage claim. If the liable party is cooperative, it may be easy and you may expect auto accident compensation to your satisfaction and in time. Unfortunately, this is more the exception than the rule.
When the other party did not accept the claim, it has to be decided which procedures must be followed to receive vehicle damage compensation. If you have entered into some correspondence and there is still no agreement in sight, a decision must be made whether to go to court or not.
Legal cost will arise if you take the matter to court.
RAMLA (Road Accident Management & Legal Action) is a specialist in managing the entire car accident damage claim for members and clients, in South Africa. It will be worth it to determine whether this professional service will be economical and efficient in favour for you to utilise such to facilitate your claim process.
To know more about how to manage a claim, please follow the link in the heading.
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One of the risks in the process of repairing your car accident damages, will be of not having your damaged motor car repaired for the compensation received. This may be caused by insufficient vehicle accident repair quotations, car damage assessment in favour to a party or just price increases during the period of the battle for traffic accident damage compensation.
Price risks (or cost risks) are very real and must be taken into account when you have to go to court facing a long term battle, to solve the problem.
To know more about price risks about motor car accident repair, please follow the link in the heading.
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You need to follow a procedure to claim for motor car damage caused by a car accident. The liable party must be provided with the amount/value of damage and a letter of demand should be filed.
Before you can take legal action, the letter of demand must be served to the other party, stating the essentials of the claim and giving a time frame to respond. If the other party fails to comply or blame you to be liable for the car accident at all, the matter must be judged independently in court.
The case most often starts with the service of a summons and thereafter complex court rules must be followed. It is impossible to draft that rules here and it will not be a good idea if someone likes to pursue the legal motor car accident damage claim in court on his own without having the background of knowledge for the legal process.
To know more about how to manage a claim, please follow the link in the heading.
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