Comments on: Filing A Pothole Damage Claim http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/pothole-damage-claim-filing-process.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:04:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ming http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/pothole-damage-claim-filing-process.html/comment-page-1#comment-327719 Ming Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:20:31 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=2633#comment-327719 It happened to me last winter on a road under construction. I filed and sent in all the paperwork. Then I called the DOT every week to follow up. The lady was sympathetic. She said there is an immunity law that protects the government meaning that the government is only liable IF I can prove that they are aware of the pothole and fail to do anything about it within 30 days (add more time for bad weather). She went thru their maintenance records/logs and said they did conduct a check. So she said I lost to the government. Then she said she can help me file a claim against the road construction contractor. A month later I got a letter from the contractor denying my claim. It happened to me last winter on a road under construction. I filed and sent in all the paperwork. Then I called the DOT every week to follow up. The lady was sympathetic. She said there is an immunity law that protects the government meaning that the government is only liable IF I can prove that they are aware of the pothole and fail to do anything about it within 30 days (add more time for bad weather). She went thru their maintenance records/logs and said they did conduct a check. So she said I lost to the government. Then she said she can help me file a claim against the road construction contractor. A month later I got a letter from the contractor denying my claim.

]]> By: fred@opc http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/pothole-damage-claim-filing-process.html/comment-page-1#comment-272027 fred@opc Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:43:38 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=2633#comment-272027 If the Government would actually spend all the taxes it collects under the auspices of "highway and infrastructure maintenance" on HIGHWAYs and INFRASTRUCTURE, we wouldn't have this problem. It is an arduous process to get your money back from the Government - and once you figure the time you'll need to take off work to take the county to court, it'll pretty much be a wash. If the Government would actually spend all the taxes it collects under the auspices of “highway and infrastructure maintenance” on HIGHWAYs and INFRASTRUCTURE, we wouldn’t have this problem.

It is an arduous process to get your money back from the Government – and once you figure the time you’ll need to take off work to take the county to court, it’ll pretty much be a wash.

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