Car insurance is fake. He has to pay for the damages from the accident

Last January, sifting through Facebook, he came across an advertisement that had caught his attention: the RC auto at a very convenient price, 129 euros instead of the 380 he usually paid. So when his policy expired in April, he didn’t renew it and got in touch with “Immediate”, an online-only insurance company. He had signed the contract, paid the sum and left happy with his Skoda Octavia.

In mid-May, however, Silvio Bevilacqua, a 51-year-old worker, resident in the city, in viale Trento had left the square of a shop without giving priority to the motorcycle driven by Riccardo Antoniazzi, a young resident in the hinterland who had bumped into the car with his Honda and tumbled on the asphalt. He had suffered serious injuries; between damage to vehicles and compensation, the estimate is around 25 thousand euros. Bevilacqua had discovered at that point that his policy was waste paper: “Immediate” is not recognized in Italy, it has no agents, it has no offices, it is in fact a ghost company. The worker had been denounced for forgery (he had exhibited an invalid document to the patrol) and does not have much chance of avoiding paying the damages himself. The big business of the web.

A hope for the motorist, who then proceeded to restart his old Rc car, however, comes from the recent measures with which Ivass, the Insurance Supervisory Institute, has blocked the activity of various companies operating on the market Italian, including “Immediate”. It must be said that Bevilacqua had proceeded to file a complaint against unknown persons for fraud, providing the investigators not only with the Iban to which he had paid the policy payment, but also all the documentation that had arrived by e-mail and which he had then printed, of course to be covered for one year. However, some small print clauses should have given him doubts, but what is certain is that from the first commercial he found on Facebook he had been clearly misled.

Cases such as that of the worker have become frequent in recent years in the Vicenza area, where some motorists, in an attempt to save, find themselves mocked by unscrupulous scammers who exploit anonymity and

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