(Philadelphia) – Attorneys William M. Davis and Samuel C. Butler have successfully resolved a complex personal injury claim, securing a full six-figure insurance payout for a client who suffered severe, career-ending injuries in a T-bone collision involving a peer-to-peer car-sharing rental vehicle.
The client, a professional bartender, sustained devastating injuries—including nasal bone fractures and spinal cord trauma resulting in permanent hand paralysis—shortly after renting a vehicle through a popular peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace. Despite clear liability on the part of the at-fault driver, the opposing insurance company deployed aggressive delay tactics, leveraging two unique complications to withhold compensation:
- Vehicle Mix-Up: The client and his niece, who had rented identical makes and models through the marketplace at the same time, had inadvertently driven off in each other’s vehicles.
- Policy Dispute: The insurer attempted to argue that peer-to-peer car-sharing platforms did not qualify as traditional car rental agencies and that standard policy terms should not apply.
Recognizing these arguments alongside endless requests for redundant paperwork as standard delay strategies designed to wear down the client, Davis and Butler systematically countered the insurer’s tactics, eventually securing the full six-figure policy limits.
Formed in 1995, McMonagle Perri McHugh Mischak Davis has been a trusted law firm for Philadelphia criminal defense cases for over 30 years, assisting clients with cases involving such areas as accidents at work, slip and fall/trip and fall incidents, acts of medical malpractice, car accidents, defective products, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, crime victim assaults and nursing home injury.
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