[quote=teaboy]I have also heard that it’s nigh on impossible to actually enforce judgements like that against private citizens…
Out of interest, what does “DMV pulled her license” mean? The lady presumably will keep her physical license (and can continue to use it for, say, ID purposes), so it’s only a problem if she’s driving and pulled over by a cop. Right?
If she’s driving without insurance already, what’s the diff with driving without a license, too?
The difficulty in actually enforcing the small claims court judgement is the main thing which would ever stop me spending the time and effort to take someone to small claims, so I’m interested to hear more about getting the DMV to “pull” someone’s license…
Can I call SDGE and get them to “pull” their utilities, too? 🙂
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Because the DMV requires every driver to be financially responsible for their vehicle and the damage resulting from it, and having a judgement against them for financial responsibility indicates otherwise, they get their license suspended. Other stuff like not reporting certain accidents in a timely manner will also get your license suspended.
Problem is that once your license is suspended, your insurance is not valid.
In California at least, if you get caught without insurance, your car will be impounded and rightfully so.
Now if she moved to another state, I’d guess that if her insurance company found she had a suspended license in California, they could use that to deny a claim, but I’m just guessing.
