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The driver who hit me has the same insurer as me. Now I see the same guy is representing both of us — how is this fair?
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The driver who hit me has the same insurer as me. Now I see the same guy is representing both of us — how is this fair?

Yahoo Finance · Jun 29, 2026, 11:15 AM

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  • Now I see the same guy is representing both of us — how is this fair?
  • Imagine Maya, a 34-year-old graphic designer in Columbus, Ohio, who got rear-ended at a stoplight in March.
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The driver who hit me has the same insurer as me. Now I see the same guy is representing both of us — how is this fair? Godwin Oluponmile Mon, June 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM GMT+7 7 min read monkeybusiness/Envato Getting hit by another driver is bad enough. What makes it genuinely worse is discovering, somewhere between the police report and the first adjuster call, that you both pay insurance premiums to the same company.

Imagine Maya, a 34-year-old graphic designer in Columbus, Ohio, who got rear-ended at a stoplight in March. The other driver admitted fault on the spot. Maya filed a police report, took photos, and opened a claim with her insurer that same afternoon. Then, a few days later, when she followed up on the claim status, she noticed the same adjuster name appearing on both sides of the correspondence — hers and the other driver's.

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