The Range Rover after being confiscated/a cheap Stroll office
Severe financial crisis or attempted fraud?
A lawsuit filed by 'Kia North Garage' from the Haifa Bay against the resident of the Kiryat revealed how the owner of a Range Rover Evoque tried to avoid paying the garage for repairing the vehicle after the accident.
According to the lawsuit, filed by lawyers Amir Stroll and Shay Halfon of the Stroll-Halfon law firm, after the vehicle was damaged in an accident, its owner chose to have it repaired at a Kia garage, due to its proximity to his workplace at the time.
The owner of the vehicle informed the owners of the garage that he had a comprehensive insurance policy for the vehicle, and that he would activate it, in order for it to cover the cost of the repair.
Later, the vehicle owner and the insurance agent confirmed that the insurance company would finance the repair as part of the arrangement, and that the cost of the repair would be paid directly to the garage.
An appraiser inspected the vehicle, the appraisal report was forwarded to the insurance company, which confirmed the appraiser's assessment.
Since it was necessary to order unique parts from abroad, the repair of the vehicle took about two months, and at all times, the owner of the vehicle and the insurance agent on his behalf were involved in the process.
Despite this, during the vehicle repair, the insurance company decided not to recognize the garage as an authorized garage for repairing the luxury vehicle.
The owner of the garage was informed that the insurance company is expected to transfer the cost of the repair, according to the terms of the policy, directly to the owner of the vehicle, and this will transfer the funds to the garage.
Lawyers Shai Halfon and Amir Stroll/Zion Belhassan
The car owner asked the garage to continue repairing his car, and promised to transfer the payment received from the insurance company to the garage owners by bank transfer.
When the repair was finished, the owner of the Range Rover asked not to leave a guarantee check to the garage, as is customary, and promised that the full amount received from the insurance company would be immediately transferred to the garage.
The garage owner believed the car owner and agreed to release the Range without any guarantee for the payment of the debt. But a few days after he received the car, the car owner remembered to inform the garage owner that he had fallen into a difficult financial situation, and that the insurance money was going to be swallowed up in his account that was in default.
According to him, he will be able to pay the debt only in a large number of payments.
With no choice, the garage owner agreed to accept bounced checks.
But already with the deposit of the first payment, the check was not honored due to insufficient coverage.
In light of his unusual conduct, the lawyers Stroll and Halfon filed a lawsuit in the Hadera Magistrate's Court on behalf of the garage, against the owner of the vehicle.
In the lawsuit, they requested that he be ordered to pay the garage the full amount of the repair, plus interest and attachment, and to impose a lien on the vehicle, for the purpose of guaranteeing the payment of the debt.
According to the lawsuit, there is a real fear from the conduct of the car owner, that he is acting in bad faith, and in fact he was charging the owner of the garage, in order to receive the insurance money directly into his account, thereby making wealth illegally, while closing holes in his account.
A court granted the request and imposed an immediate lien on the luxury car and its owner's bank account.
According to attorney Halfon and Stroll, the owner of the car tried to smuggle the car, when he transferred the ownership of it in the name of his young son.
At this point, the lawyers applied to the court, requesting to be appointed as receivers, in order to seize the luxury car. The appointment was accepted and the court allowed the lawyers To seize the vehicle in their hat as receivers, with the assistance of the Israel Police.
Only after the vehicle was seized and stored in a designated parking lot did its owner contact the lawyers and came to an understanding with them on settling the debt immediately. After the owner of the vehicle paid his full debt, the vehicle was released and returned to its owner, according to attorney Stroll and Halfon. , in the event that the owner of the vehicle would avoid paying his debt, the vehicle would be offered for sale, and the debt to the garage would be covered with these funds.
"Many tend to trust the other party out of faith and hope that he will pay them for the service they gave him," says attorney Halfon and Stroll. "Unfortunately, this sometimes allows people acting in bad faith to take advantage of the other party's innocence and trash it.
In such cases, unfortunately, only as a result of a persistent legal battle, and sometimes even a long one, can the stolen funds be returned"
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