Stupid Pilot Tricks - Insurance Co. Trying to Back Out

"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message
...
Apparently, the insurance co of the pilot who lost his amphibious float
plane on landing (see "Stupid Pilot Tricks" and Followup a couple of weeks
ago) and parked it in a hangar with a Comanche already inside, is trying
to
get out of paying anything since the pilot was on drugs. Not surprising,
but that leaves the owners of the two other planes involved and the
airport
(hangar owners) with no recourse but to claim on their own insurance. I
guess this is just the way it works, but it's a shame that the pilot's
insurance won't at least pay the innocent parties' claims and then go
after
the pilot themselves.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America


Why should they pay a claim if they are not required to? If the policy
isn't in force if the pilot is on drugs, then the parked planes were hit by
an uninsured pilot. The insurance company is not insuring the damaged
planes, it is insuring the pilot who caused the accident and, even then,
only subject to various requirments. I agree that it is unfortunate for the
victums.

Mike
MU-2