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BobNYC · 10-31-2007, 04:54 AM

My wife forwarded me an email letter she received from someone she knows. Here it is....
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NISSAN / INFINITI
IS DESTROYING ME FINANCIALLY AND TRYING TO TAKE FROM ME EVERYTHING I’VE WORKED SO HARD FOR ALL MY LIFE.
THEY WOULD DO THE SAME TO YOU!
NISSAN DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR LOYAL CUSTOMERS.

IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUYING OR LEASING A NISSAN OR INFINITI
PLEASE READ THIS LETTER AND E-MAIL IT TO EVERYBODY YOU CAN

In March of 2002 while parking my leased Nissan Pathfinder, I had an accident with a pedestrian. I tapped into a woman and knocked her off balance. She fell to the ground and hit her head. I stayed with her until she was taken away in an ambulance and felt tremendous remorse and sorrow. It was an accident.

The injured woman sued me and under a provision of New York Law, since repealed, also sued Nissan, who I leased the vehicle from.

Nissan/Infiniti, through their insurance company, Tokio Marine, agreed to pay the injured woman millions of dollars.

Now, Nissan/Infiniti and their insurance company, Tokio Marine, have sued me and obtained a judgment against me for 3 million dollars.

The attorney representing Nissan/Infiniti and Tokio Marine, both multibillion-dollar companies, has told me that they will force me into bankruptcy and ruin me financially just to recover an amount of money that would not even make a wrinkle in their balance sheets, but will destroy my life financially.

I followed all of Nissan’s lease conditions including the purchase of a $100,000/$300,000 automobile injury/liability policy. I had no idea that Nissan could turn around and sue me. There was no clear indication in their lease agreement that they could do this to me.

I am 62 years old and this was the first accident I had been involved in over 37 years and where a person sustained a serious injury. I’ve never been arrested or even charged with a crime. I’ve spent my life trying to do the right things and be a good example to my children, family and friends. My wife and I put our 2 children through college and are still paying off college loans. We work very hard to make an adequate living. Whatever we have, we’ve worked our whole lives for.

If you feel some compassion for me and my family and think the action of Nissan/Infiniti is vicious and unjust, please e-mail them at nnaconsumeraffairs@nissan-usa.com and tell them so.

Thank you for reading this and please e-mail this letter to everyone you know.

Leonard Grodin, NYC., NY
212-452-1330
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Anyone hear anything about this before? My wife, who tends to be a bit hysterical about these things, is very concerned. I reminded her we don't lease the Titan.

07cajuntitan · 10-31-2007, 05:18 AM

I have never heard of this before. I could find no reference to it on snopes.com, so I submitted it to snopes as a potential new rumor to look in to. I'll let you know if I hear back from them.

Riverratt · 10-31-2007, 05:27 AM

Lets just say your mother, for example, visits you, is injured on your property and has medical claims with her insurance company. Her insurance company will (not maybe) come after you and/or your insurance to seek compensation/reimbursement for thier expenses. I guess, in this case, you could start a chain letter warning people of your mother's vicious and unjust intentions on financially ruining you.

rholland · 10-31-2007, 05:32 AM

I have no idea if this is true or not, but
99% of the e-mail that you get asking you to forward it on is made up.
I checked on Snopes.com, and they did not have this one listed.
If it is true, he needs a good lawyer, and a jury, they almost never find for the big corporation aganist an individual.

**Nissan Mike** · 10-31-2007, 05:50 AM

I'm calling bull$hit on this one

bigfinderman · 10-31-2007, 05:50 AM

Yea i coudn't find it either.. But if it is true, thats is a load of bullsh*t!! Like they dont have enough money anyway.. But more than likely its just another one of those forwarded messeages.....

BobNYC · 10-31-2007, 06:32 AM

I do know that until recently it was possible to sue the company leasing a vehicle in NY. That's why some makers stopped leasing vehicles in NY State a few years ago and lobbied to get the law changed.

**Overide** · 10-31-2007, 07:04 AM

sounds like crap.

cohee3 · 10-31-2007, 08:39 AM

Sounds fishy to me, but it also sounds like a good excuse to get rid of some more lawyers. Line them all up and....

SJYokel · 10-31-2007, 08:50 AM

As much as I'd like to call crap, the phone # googles to Leonard Grodin, a realtor for GPA Realty in NYC. The story is plausable, but there seem to be some strange pieces to the puzzle. A 62-y/o guy sending e-form letters to everyone, running a MySpace page dedicated to this, and still paying off college loans for his kids? Then again...sounds like something Nissan might pull to recoup some $$$. That'll teach him to pick on old ladies crossing the street!

Frankly, this was less disturbing than the litigation I came across between Nissan and the Nissan computers guy who got the nissan.com website first. Anyone have any experience in PR? Nissan could use some help.

grnTitan04 · 10-31-2007, 10:37 AM

Sounds fishy, what does he think insurance is for?

On the other hand, as a former New Yorker, this kind of BS is totally plausible in that state.

70DATSUN · 10-31-2007, 09:07 PM

Frankly, this was less disturbing than the litigation I came across between Nissan and the Nissan computers guy who got the nissan.com website first. Anyone have any experience in PR? Nissan could use some help.

What was this deal about? This could be a good read, have a site too go too?

Antihero · 10-31-2007, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 70DATSUN

Frankly, this was less disturbing than the litigation I came across between Nissan and the Nissan computers guy who got the nissan.com website first. Anyone have any experience in PR? Nissan could use some help.

What was this deal about? This could be a good read, have a site too go too?

Go to nissan.com the link is at the top in flashing letters

MuskyHunter · 10-31-2007, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Anyone hear anything about this before? My wife, who tends to be a bit hysterical about these things, is very concerned. I reminded her we don't lease the Titan.

Well, I haven't dug into this too much, but I see a MySpace area dedicated to this. Then again, it "is" MySpace.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:...lnk&cd=1&gl=us