Legal Question in Personal Injury in Florida

Re: Bealls and the cival remedy for theft 772.11

There is no real way to answer this without a better description of the letter and its basis and who it was from.

You do not indicate your daughter's age, which may be of importance.

You don't have much in the way of facts here (i.e., like did the item leave the store).

You are probably being naive to conclude that your daughter had absolutely no idea that anything wrong was going on.

Re: Bealls and the cival remedy for theft 772.11

I'm not sure of the facts here, but surely paying the money demanded will look like an admission. There is a MA statute on restitution by stores from shoplifters, and this may be what the letter is based on. There is a drug store I won't name but they boast to be Consumer Value Stores that used to send these letters. If this matter is worth more than $200 to you, it might be worthwhile to speak to an attorney in person and bring all the paperwork and get the whole story out and get some real advice, not armchair generalities that is about all that can be done here. You might give consideration to ignoring the letter, but that might be considered an "adoptive admission" if someone concludes a reasonable person would have responded otherwise. Good luck. Regards, JBS