Walls, part 5.
Mar. 20th, 2010 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurthaewAfter the visit of the "expert" from Oxford & District Building Services on Friday 12th. March, I contacted Aviva, who insure our house, about persuing a claim. I had told them about it just after it had happened and they had given me a reference number. The lack of progress from Oxfordshire Highways and their sub-subcontractor was getting ridiculous and I felt that I was being ignored.
Aviva arranged for a loss adjuster to come around and view the damage, and he arrived this morning. After looking at the damaged area, all the photographs I had taken and the somewhat minimalist documentation from Oxfordshire Highways, he professed himself to be baffled why the guilty parties were dragging their heels over such an obvious liability. He has accepted the quotation from the dry stone wall expert (£1385.00) and will authorise the release of a cheque from Aviva payable to dry stone wall man and that should be here next week. He will pass the details across to their recovery team to get full redress for Aviva, their costs and also my time for the attempts I made to deal with it. So, ODBS are now looking at a bill of something approaching £3,000.00. If they try to challenge it, the costs will escallate rapidly because the recovery team uses a legal team with considerable expertise.
All in all, a succesful morning's work.
Aviva arranged for a loss adjuster to come around and view the damage, and he arrived this morning. After looking at the damaged area, all the photographs I had taken and the somewhat minimalist documentation from Oxfordshire Highways, he professed himself to be baffled why the guilty parties were dragging their heels over such an obvious liability. He has accepted the quotation from the dry stone wall expert (£1385.00) and will authorise the release of a cheque from Aviva payable to dry stone wall man and that should be here next week. He will pass the details across to their recovery team to get full redress for Aviva, their costs and also my time for the attempts I made to deal with it. So, ODBS are now looking at a bill of something approaching £3,000.00. If they try to challenge it, the costs will escallate rapidly because the recovery team uses a legal team with considerable expertise.
All in all, a succesful morning's work.
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Date: 2010-03-20 07:11 pm (UTC)(ditto, with glasses on)