If I hit someone’s car andthey did not have a driver’s license or insurance, what can they do if they disagree with how their car was repaired by my body shop?
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If I hit someone’s car andthey did not have a driver’s license or insurance, what can they do if they disagree with how their car was repaired by my body shop?
She could be an illegal immigrant? Since my dad owns a body shop, they agreed to come in and let my dad fix the damage I caused. However, their car is already in bad shape, with rust all over and it might be a totaled car before I damaged it. We tried to tell them that we already repaired the damaged cause by me but they insist we fix the whole car (even the obvious previously done damages). The police at the scene did nothing about her except give her my information. They said they would take the car to another body shop and file the claim after we already repaired the damages I caused.
Asked on July 27, 2011 Texas
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If the repair work has been done at your father's body shop for the damages you caused, and the owner of the repaired car signed paperwork for the repair and then took the car, then she has the burden of showing that the repairs made as the result of the accident were not done properly.
The woman could make a complaint with the Bureau of Automotive Repairs in the state youlive in about the work done by your father's body shop. She could also bring a lawsuit against either you for damges and/or your father's business for a bad repair where the repairs made have to be done over.
Hopefully photographs were taken of the car before repairs were made and after to show the difference if you and yor father have to go to court.
Good luck.
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