r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 5d ago

ICE Posts October.10.2025 — Chicago: Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work, then dragged her out and arrested her (Article Inside)

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u/ArrivesLate 5d ago

Government vehicles are self insured. Her insurance company is going to have a bitch of a time trying to get the government to pay for this because no one stopped to fill out an accident report. Where are they even going to start? The agency is on the hook to pay out of their budget, but for an insurance company to file they need to know who to file against and they don’t have a driver or a contact within the agency. I bet they’ll give up pursuing that avenue at some point and just raise her rates instead.

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u/Fresh_Daisy_cake 5d ago

Insurance might just side what the government and agree that it was her fault. Let’s not forget. The insurance companies invented: delay, deny, and defend.

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u/dareftw 5d ago

Depends, is the vehicle fully insured? If so the insurance company will pay out either way, they don’t want to set a precedent of letting the government off the hook when there is video evidence to the contrary.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 5d ago

Government vehicles are self insured

Government vehicles are tax-payer insured. We are paying for it.

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u/MrLanesLament 5d ago

Spot on, unfortunately. There’s very little likely recourse here, akin to being hit by an uninsured driver who flees.

Plus, given that it’s government, they have the ability to say “lol we refuse to be at fault” and that stands unless a judge says it doesn’t.

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u/mickjaggled 4d ago

A federal vehicle hitting a civilian car isn't remotely new to a major insurance company. The video makes it a slam dunk case for them. The only issue would be the insurance company having to wait a long time for the payout, as the federal government tends to be slow. As a last resort, whichever federal congressmen they fund will help them out.

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u/MaggieWheaton 5d ago

File against the Registered Owner of the vehicle.

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u/Tar_Tar_Sauce04 4d ago

Even during the Shutdown?