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Car Damaged in Private Car Park
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foxy-stoat wrote: »Still no idea what sign or legal wording would reduce the liability of a property owner if their building caused damage to someone else's car due to the proven negligence of the property owner.
Any payment for damage caused by our negligence to maintain this building will be reduced by 50%
If your talking about contributory negligence then quite possibly - if the poor sap parked his car underneath a building that is quiet obviously looks like its ready to fall down, moved the herras fencing that was blocking the parking space and ignoring all the danger building ready for collapse signs, then the building owner would not be negligent.
Any way - good luck to the OP with his damage problems.
I mean it would need to be comprehensive with a lot of background work such as continual inspections, service reports etc meaning they could prove their negligence could be limited to essentially zeroSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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