Legal Question in Consumer Law in Pennsylvania

Limo company disaster. Please Help!

I contracted a limousine company to chaufer myself and my husdand on our wedding day in a Classic 1960 white Bently. They were paid in full with-in 1 month of signing on with them (7 months before my wedding). I made it quite clear that I would only accept the bently and they claimed they had a silver one that would be availible if something happened to the white one. I recieved confirmation on the services/car ordered in January (4 month before wedding). 2 days before the wedding we recieve a phone call informing us that that car nor any other car like it was available, and that the car requested had been out of service for over 5 months( before confirmation was sent).They would not refund our money or contract the same type of car from another company. We then paid for another car from a different company.We later found out that the car was not running when they promised it to me. We got this info from the fleet manager there. Here we are months later with no refund and a lawsuit on our hands. What would be the best way to present this case, under what laws and statutes? Can I sue for can for mental anguish (or something like that) because they ruined my wedding day?


Asked on 10/16/03, 11:48 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
William Marvin Cohen, Placitella & Roth, P.C.

Re: Limo company disaster. Please Help!

It certainly sounds like the kind of case Pennsylvania's Consumer Protection Law is aimed at: it allows triple damages. But your question about how to present the case is really too broad. That's what lawyers go through years of training, and then extensive investigation and research on every particular case to figure out. It's really not a do-it-yourself project, and certainly not something that can be meaningfully discussed in a casual online forum.

But "mental anguish" is very tough to recover. You might be able to claim some modest compensation for aggravation and inconvenience for having to arrange a substitute car on short notice. THe limo company's misrepresentation was pretty egregious. But it didn't "ruin your wedding." As wedding snafus go, there's a lot of worse ones.

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Answered on 10/17/03, 8:00 am


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