I was involved in a car accident in Michigan, and the at-fault driver’s insurance denied my mini-tort claim because they don’t have mini tort coverage. I still have out-of-pocket repair costs ($1,000), and I want to file a small court claims case against the at-fault driver. I have the **police report**, repair estimates, and insurance denial letter as evidence. **My questions** ❓ 1. **How do I file a small court claims lawsuit in Michigan?.** 2. **What court do I file in—where the accident happened or where the driver lives?.** 3. **How do I serve the at-fault driver properly?.** 4. **What happens if they ignore the lawsuit or refuse to pay after a judgment?.** 5. **Has anyone successfully won a mini-tort case in small claims court?.** Any advice or experience would be really helpful! Thank you!

Question, we filed a claim on our house in 2023 due to damage from a wind storm. There was damage to the siding on one side. It was repaired but the siding didn't match and my state has a matching clause. Progressive paid a supplement amount to have the whole house sided based on an estimate from our contractor and then told us basically that's it, we are done you don't have to show proof of repair like we are done. The contractor we had then said that wasn't enough to cover what he needed to complete the job, so we paid him for the repairs he completed and made sure everything was good, we then utilized the balance of the left over insurance to make some updates/ repairs to our property since the amount wasn't enough to finish the full siding of our house. Fast forward to a month ago we had a major hailstorm and it obliterated our siding, roof, gutters, etc and progressive is saying they will not replace the siding again since they paid out a claim previously to do a full siding. Are they able to do that? I can't find anything in my insurance contract that says we had to utilize that money for repairs ok that specific item and the repairs to the siding were done they just didn't match our siding completely.

just got non-renewal letter from liberty mutual. The reasons are the 4 claims in the last 3 years. All claims are from the repairs of a music instrument which I added as an addendum to the home policy. The 4 claims are <$1000 in total and the highest one is $400. As there are no duductibles and the liberty mutual customer service did not warn me of any consequence of these small claims, I just made the claims. I have quoted online 2-3 companies and answered "yes" when they ask claim history, they all rejected to provide coverage. Should I negotiate with liberty mutual to continue the policy by droping the instrument addedum? Or move on to a new company by telling them the details of these non-renewals and opt out the coverage of the instrument? With claims totaling less than $1,000, am I shut out of the insurance world?

I bought a used 2012 Volvo during the pandemic at the height of used car prices out of desperation. I needed a car. I have $12600 left on the loan. The car itself is now valued at $4000. It currently requires $15000+ in repairs to pass safety and emissions. I’ve had nothing but problems with it since purchase a couple of years ago. I have put about $1500 into the car so far in repairs. I suspect I was sold a lemon, one shop suspected a history of flood damage, another refused to comment if that was a possibility. I do have gap insurance, not sure if that can apply here. I cannot afford to fix the vehicle or pay out the loan and get a new vehicle. Between the original dealer, the lender, State Farm, auto repair shops, I feel pretty constantly let down by customer service. I also struggle to understand all of the policies and legalese. Is there anything I can do here? I’m so overwhelmed.

My family has Cigna through my husband’s employer. About two months ago I felt like I had the flu, and couldn’t get in with my PCP until the following week. Was told I should try go to urgent care for a flu test and to get checked out. I did, and was in and out in about 30 minutes (flu A positive, sent on my way with some meds). A few weeks later, I get a bill for almost $400 and was shocked. A month later, my son ended up getting rushed to the ER. We were there for about 7 hours under observation after getting some initial meds…. And I just got the bill for that. $150 copay, that’s it. Looked up our coverage with Cigna. It states ER visits have a $150 copay with the deductible waived. For urgent care, it says “after the in-network deductible is met, you pay 10%”. In what world is this right? I thought the whole point of an urgent care was to try to alleviate the stress on ERs. I feel like now I have no reason to ever go to an urgent care… even if all I need is a simple strep test or have UTI symptoms. Is this becoming the norm?

I have an interest-free card that I used for some remodeling on a property. It is interest-free for 18 months, so I charged all materials and labor to it. The first payment was due yesterday, and I set up autopay from the property's bank account. The autopay only had one option: "amount due." I naively thought that meant the minimum amount due, not the entire credit card bill. Well, yesterday, the creditor withdrew the entire amount from the bank account. The funds were there, so it was not returned. I called Chase (the card issuer) last night when I saw the transaction pending, and they said they couldn't help me since it was on autopay. I called my bank this morning, and they said they can't help me either since it is an ACH. They mentioned that I could possibly dispute it, but that process would take almost two months. Is there really no way to reverse that charge and pay them the minimum amount due instead? I got the card specifically to avoid impacting the cash flow and had a plan to pay it off while it was still interest-free. I genuinely did not know the amount Chase was going to deduct, it did not tell me when I set up Auto-Pay or anything. Am I just not talking to the right people, or is there really no way to assist me? ********* Update: Called Chase again and a manager helped me. She said since I didn’t have a minimum payment due, the option wasn’t there to pay minimum and that’s why I only had the “pay amount due” option. They are refunding me! And I don’t owe anything till August.

Is it even legal for Healthy Paws pet insurance to increase premiums at almost 200% in CA? This is outrageously high!! Anyone experiencing the same? #healthypawspetinsurance

So when I bought my first car under my parents insurance I was paying them $200 a month. I had one minor accident, no speeding tickets however I did have window tint tickets I forgot to pay after I sold the car shortly after. Not paying those caused my license to be suspended so I applied for quotes and got crazy responses like $1100 a month from geico. I see ppl here suggest insurance brokers often as a last resort so that’s what I did. Got 2 diff quotes of $411 and $398. Since I had already bought the car and needed insurance asap I took it. But my question is do I really have to pay 50% of the cars value in insurance annually? Is this really my life from now on? Or will it be a bit better now that I’ve unsuspended my license CAR IS A 2012 ACURA TL SH AWD btw Location: NY 25yo male TL;DR: Bought expensive $400 insurance when my license was suspended. Can I get cheap insurance since I unsuspended it 2 days later? Or not because of my one minor accident 3 years ago

About 3 months ago, I got in a car crash where the car got fairly significant damage (I oversteered into a tree). I notified both the local police department and Hertz about the crash, got incident reports from both, and moved on with my merry life (after getting a replacement vehicle from Hertz). I got emailed a request to fill in a vehicle incident report from Hertz, which I submitted the day of receipt. Now here’s the thing: I didn’t have any insurance from Hertz, relying on secondary insurance from my credit card. I don’t own a car, so there’s no primary auto insurance to speak of. My credit card insurance provider requires claims to be submitted within 100 days of incident for them to consider them, and they require a statement of claim from the rental agency in order to submit claims. I’ve gotten crickets from Hertz in this respect the past two months…and I’m concerned that they won’t provide me with paperwork in time for me to appropriately file the claim. I was *considering* sending Hertz a polite but firm letter using certified mail asking them to provide me with a statement of claim in a timely manner in order for me to proceed with this claim given that I don’t want to wake up to a $20,000 bill from Hertz in half a year or something that my credit card insurance policy won’t cover. Is this a good idea? If not, anything else I should consider? I’d appreciate any advice! Jurisdiction: the car was rented in Virginia with a New York drop-off. The crash occurred in Virginia, and I’m a New York resident.

I opened my bank account yesterday and my jaw dropped to see a hefty bill of $519.67 from Healthy Paws!! I have been their customer for more than 10 years and they took care of my pets....They covered an expensive procedure about 3 years back and I felt nothing but grateful...Their claim submission process is very simple....No recent high amount bills from my end (just regular procedures in the last 2 years!!) ....I referred my friends to them...And I was a happy customer until today...I understand that companies sometimes need to increase their rate but to increase it by 323% !!! ... I am just sad and devastated...You value your kids'/pets' health more than yours...I just paid $160.49 a month ago..if they had to increase the rate to $200.00 or $215.00, I would have understood...But this rate hikes is truly unjustified...I am planning to report it...My heart is broken....I wanted to let people know..