It is not the defense attorney’s job to question his client’s testimony. It is the plaintiff’s job to question the defendant’s testimony and poke holes in it.
The fact of the matter is that the judge didn’t think you met your burden of proof. He found the defendant more credible.
How much did repairs to your vehicle cost?
Bias. She (not he) was running for election and those were her constituents.
I mentioned above how local attorneys I talked with said they're glad she's off the bench. They used the term "hometowned" and actually told me I "held my own." They get hometowned.
Progressive denied it even happened. So I took them to court. The cost doesn't matter. I don't care. I like getting this experience. Any cost is cheaper than law school (and having to suck up and deal with judges like her) and I like having trial skills. I don't mind losing. It's just the actual injustice.
What is the likelihood of me being able to identify an unlicensed driver and a car somewhere I don't even live?
I will do it again with more experience. The opposing counsel Progressive was trying to get me declared vexatious. It didn't work.
They don't want me going to court. But I will every time.
They spent more money and time than just not ignoring me at the claims stage. You have to teach people how to treat you.
HOW MUCH MONEY DID THIS COST PROGRESSIVE?
I'm sure that attorney's hourly rate was well over what it would've cost to treat me like a human being at the start.
Not vexatious. I did hold my own.
So, no one truly won because the actual case became nothing.
It was a minor accident due to my defensive driving against a kid (age 15) with a lead foot; still property loss, however.
I will likely see them in court again in my lifetime (Woot! Not vexatious!) and I'll be encouraging and even funding everyone I know who gets ignored to do the same.
But that's the thing. There's this one factor, that date on the exhibit, which could unravel it all. You can see it via the judgment and exhibits that are always part of the record.
The exhibit was addressed at oral argument, probably because that isn't recorded. The panel asked the Progressive attorney if his Exhibit D (
https://postimg.cc/N2sghZc4) was the one submitted at trial. He confirmed it. They chastised him.
They know there was an issue. But they didn't ultimately do anything about it.
The only good thing is that this record is forever. The Supreme Court hyperlink preserves the whole thing in a way. It's readily shareable. Click a link and download documents.