Required to attend court hearing

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A motorbike crashed into and wrote off my car in December 2015. I was not at fault. Third party accepted liability and the claim has been settled apart from the outstanding hire car charges from a company called Claimfast, which the third party insurers have refused to pay.
Today I received a letter from the solicitors who handled my case advising me that my case has been listed for a Trial Hearing at the County Court at the end of the month and I am required to attend.
The letter doesn't state whether it is me vs Claimfast or me vs the third party insurers.
I have never been to court before so am feeling quite anxious.
I am unable to find out it if I could be liable for the hire charges of £7000!
Has anyone had experience of this?

Ring county court and ask who is Vs who

From the description you give I would imagine it will be you vs the motorcyclist. It sounds like your insurer is taking action on your behalf to recover the car hire charges from the motorcyclist (which will, of course, be paid by his insurers if the court finds in your favour).

If your insurance includes the cost of a hire car when your car is out of action there is no way you will end up paying the hire charges regardless of whether or not they can extract payment from the motorcyclist.

You must attend court to give evidence. It will be a term of your insurance policy, and if you don’t show you’ll probably find they’ll try and recover the hire fee from you.