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  • How much money should be compensated?
    The amount of money to compensate depends on the actual damage caused to the vehicles or persons, and is a function of what each and every company policy stipulated in the General and Particular Conditions of the policy. Below is a brief overview of what the law provides in this regard as limits.
    The first paragraph of Article 18 of Law 50/1980 provides:
    “The insurer is obliged to pay compensation at the end of investigations and surveys necessary to establish the existence of the claim and, where appropriate, the amount of damages resulting from it.”
    As for physical damage to people, the Administration, annually establishes a scale of allowances depending on the damage.
    As for the damage, the Law 50/1980 provides in its various articles, the following: Read the rest of this entry »

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  • The classification of lesions ranged in establishing the scale ranging from 1 to 100, lowest to highest severity, and is subject to negotiation. Often when assessing damage occurring discrepancies between the medical insurance company, the coroner and the physician who attends an injured himself. In such cases the judge must decide what score is given, since the scale leaves room for maneuver. In general can be considered a sequel scored with a 1 may be a slight scar is not visible, while a sequel is valued with 100 head injury that incapacitates a person both physically and mentally. But between these two extremes there are infinite possibilities. For example, post concussion syndrome is valued between 5 and 15 points according to later symptoms (headaches, sleep disorders, memory, character, etc…) Loaded all issues of subjectivity. Read the rest of this entry »

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