QUESTION
Lender gave insurance wrong payoff amount leading to pricey rental
Asked on Feb 28th, 2023 on Lemon Law - Florida
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My car was totaled because I hit a 300pb boar in the middle of the road, the lender sent a letter stating amount due and amount expected to be paid but the number in the letter was wrong by 6,000 dollars. They called it a typo but the number is basically blurred on the paper. I called for 4 months everyone I could to get them to understand the situation, nobody would listen. This caused me to rent a car this whole time and it's been thousands because my loan wasn't paid off properly. I am looking for help with making the lender stand up for this mistake and causing me to rent a car for 4 months before the error was caught.
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A claim for "car rental" for 4 months due to this issue is unlikely to succeed, assuming that the payment issue has been resolved. If this took 4 months to resolve - you would have been better served to retain a lawyer after the first few weeks. If by "help make the lender statnd up to this mistake" you mean a lawyer taking the case on a "contingent fee" thats not likely as the amount in controversy is not substantial and there is not likely a separate legal fee provison to reimburse legal fees you spend. This is likely one of those cases where you would be spending money on legal fees as a "matter of principle."
Answered on Mar 01st, 2023 at 5:32 AM
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