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| no they war just passing trough ch.!MY lawyer told me about a insurance will pay but i think its too low the car wo killed my father is more expinsive,thats the worth of a life???or the better question the insurance pays only his lifetime incomes??but the fact that he was killed in the accident doesnt pay??y need to know because y dont want to be trickt be the insurances | |
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Swiss law is guided by the principle that you shouldn't be better off after the accident than before (that is the meaning of the word "compensation"). So lifetime earnings + medical bills + longtime care bills it is as compensation.
What you are really looking for is monetary compensation for "pain and suffering" AKA "reparation morale" or "Genugtuung". This has nothing to do with how expensive the car involved in the accident is. It has to do a lot with how much other drivers are at fault. From your description, your father may not have been at fault for coming to a stand on the fast lane of the motorway. But then the driver who crashes into a car that is stationary in the fast lane may not be a fault either, or not very much so.
As I posted earlier, up to CHF 50'000 in "pain and suffering" (ie in addition to compensation) have been awarded to the spouse of a man killed in a traffic accident. A young man disabled for life has been awarded CHF 200'000 (plus compensation). In both cases the other driver had been found to be gravely at fault for the accident (very reckless driving, with the eventual victims being more or less innocent "bystanders").
You need to talk to your lawyer.