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Originally Posted by BWillie

I believe what you are interpreting is that if there is a vehicle in front of you in an intersection, you can't just slam into them because they are there. Also, it's not black and white. Each motorists in the scenario I described have degrees of fault. But the motorist making the left turn is not completely fault free. Admittedly, when I handled auto losses they weren't from the East Coast, but generally it is similar state to state in these issues. I think we can all agree that nobody is expected to stop on their green light, to allow someone INTO THE INTERSECTION in front of you who is trying to make a left turn.

I assure you though, and not even through my decisions but the ones I read from other arbitrators and court proceedings, that these are almost always comparative negligence cases. The person making the left hand turn is almost NEVER fault free.

From my experience if you are able to avoid the accident and make no effort to do so it's shared/no fault.