Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California

Car stolen from parking garage, are they liable??

My car was stolen from the lot my company employs for parking, paying $100. per month, per employee. There is no agreement in writing with the parking company, only a verbal agreement. On the back of the parking passes issued by the parking company is the standard 'This contract limits our liability-Read it'. The police recovered my car (I do not have theft insurance, only liability), and I have gotten it repaired. The parking company refuses to pay for damages of aprox $2000.00. My employer wants to stay out of it so we don't lose our parking arrangement. What kind of a case do I have for small claims? Are there other cases I can site in my favor? I am a single mother trying to make ends meet, the money I have spent, and property lost is not a huge sum of money, but it is a lot to me.


Asked on 1/08/01, 8:32 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Ken Koury Kenneth P. Koury, Esq.

Re: Car stolen from parking garage, are they liable??

You can take into small Claims Court and see what happens. You�ll have to convince the judge that they were in some way negligent and that their negligence caused the theft. Negligence is determined on a case-by-case basis depending on what the individual facts are.

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Answered on 1/12/01, 10:52 am


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