A recent posting by the Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Protection helps provide the answer. Georgia law requires that certain documents be provided to you in completed form before you sign them. These include the Bill of Sale, The Retail Installment Sales...
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Dealer Fraud and the Finance Company
Many times I get calls from consumers who know that their dealer has defrauded them my misrepresenting the car, or by selling a car without a valid passing emissions certificate, or by selling a car that has title issues and cannot be registered. These folks are...
Car Accident? How to Get a Fair Insurance Settlement
There are critical factors that influence the outcome of your settlement claim that you may not know about. Studies have shown that claimants who file a lawsuit with an attorney have received more generous settlements than people filing suit alone. If you go it alone,...
Fraudulent Use of a Carfax Report by Dealer
I have posted previously about used car dealers’ use of Carfax to fraudulently sell a wrecked car as not having been wrecked. In this report I want to show an actual example of how this occurs. A dealer sold the consumer a car as a clean unwrecked car. The dealer...
NHTSA Issues Rule Allowing Consumers to Search Open Recalls
It’s official. NHTSA has issued the final rule. And the dealers who are fighting against legislation to stop them from selling unsafe recalled used cars to the public were wrong. Contrary to their claims, NHTSA opted not to create a single, centralized database, since...
Motorcycle vs. Truck Collision Case Example
I am reporting the successful policy limits settlement of a motorcycle v. truck collision in which the motorcycle driver was severely injured. The driver pulled out of a cross road and our driver was unable to avoid impact. The defendant driver claimed that the...
Logging Accident Personal Injury Case
My client is a truck driver who hauls logs as an independent contractor for a logging company. In November of 2010 the client was hooking/hooked up to a log trailer at a lumber yard. He was out of his truck tending to his trailer. The client was possibly bent over. A...
RV Buyers Beware-This is the message from a recent Federal Court case
A recent Georgia case demonstrates just how far RV manufacturers and RV dealers will go to insulate themselves from liability for warranty claims and other RV defects. In this case the consumer bought the coach for approximately $200,000 from a Georgia dealer. At the...
Auto Fraud and Emissions Testing
Georgia Law requires that all sellers of gasoline-powered cars and light-duty trucks (8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) or less), regardless if they are a private party, dealership or auctioneer, must sell a vehicle with a current, valid passing Georgia...
Emission Testing Requirement Upheld-Dealer claimed “as is” sale
We have previously reported about Autofraud involving emissions testing. In a recent case involving the sale of a used car that did not pass emissions to a consumer that lived in a “clean air” county, the court upheld the consumer assertion that this was an unfair...