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Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    Whale got it (in)exactly right when he said “it depends”.

    Anyone who has been reading this website and/or dealing with these issues for a while will know that the theory of who is responsible for what means very little when it bumps up against the commercial reality of “how much will it cost if I try to wriggle out of paying for this?”

    Insurance companies will pay for stuff they really shouldn’t to avoid the endless hassle of dealing with people who have a half-right case and a pathological obsession with proving it.  And sometimes they will not pay for damage when the plaintiff has a rock-solid moral right but no legal basis supporting it.

    It depends …

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