Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

I rent a warehouse property and recently my landlord decided to have some work done to the roof. He told me that i needed to put some plastic over my property. I did so but objects fell through the roof that were heavy and caused damage to my property (i.e. scratches on cars, broken windshield, etc) even with the plastic on them. Who is liable for my property? The landlord or the roofers


Asked on 12/02/09, 10:00 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

If you have insurance, I'd make a claim and let your insurance company's legal eagles sort that out. If you are uninsured, I'd make a claim aginst both of them. The roofer is the directly liable party, but you can make a legitimate claim that the landlord is vicariously liable for what they did. Whether you would win or not depends on far more detail about the facts, circumstances and available evidence than you have provided, or could provide in this forum, but the basis for the claim is there.

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Answered on 12/08/09, 12:51 am


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