Extended Warranty Claim Denied Without Physical Inspection of Damage
An extended-warranty claim for a MacBook display failure was denied under an accidental-damage exclusion based on an early, unsupported claim-form assumption, without the insurer inspecting the device. Later repair-shop evidence contradicted the assumption, but the insurer would not substantively reconsider, leaving the customer to pay for repair out of pocket.
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