Property damage - no responsibility?

bris

You have insurance, you will be expected to notify your insurers and put in a no fault claim. If you have legal cover with the van insurance they can assist with the excess recovery, if not you can use the small claims court to try and recover it.

Your insurers will probably chase their insures to recover their losses.

molerat

My spidey senses are tingling - I am sure this exact same scenario has been on here before.

mmmmm, same op  https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6174036/forklift-caused-damage-to-a-van-no-cctv

Mistral001

Take them to the small claims court as has been suggested.  They might lie under oath and say that it was not caused by them.  Lying under oath happens a lot btw.  It will be down who the judge believes.  An expert witness to back up your evidence might be hard to get, but you might be able to get an expert to report on the distance marks made by the fork tines are apart and  compare it the distance tines on the forklift are apart, which will give some weight to your evidence.   But if the fork lift model does not have a standard tine width, the expert will not be able to help you as he will not want to take measurements from the landlords forklift without the permission of said landlord.

oldbikebloke

molerat said:

My spidey senses are tingling - I am sure this exact same scenario has been on here before.

mmmmm, same op  https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6174036/forklift-caused-damage-to-a-van-no-cctv

marvellous, what a waste of time us engaging with the OP if they have done nothing for 2+ months 

lincroft1710

oldbikebloke said:

molerat said:

My spidey senses are tingling - I am sure this exact same scenario has been on here before.

mmmmm, same op  https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6174036/forklift-caused-damage-to-a-van-no-cctv

marvellous, what a waste of time us engaging with the OP if they have done nothing for 2+ months 

I agree as we have repeated what was said on the original thread. Notice that whereas the value of the van is now less than £3K, on the original thread it was a specific £1500