Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California

Re: auto accident liability for registered owner

You're exposed to liability.

Re: auto accident liability for registered owner

Of course you, the registered owner[s], are liable for damages caused by any permissive use driver, up to a max limit set by statute. Your daughter, and her son, were certainly such foreseeable users. If you don't have proper, or any, insurance coverage for this, then hire counsel to negotiate a deal to buy you out of the litigation quickly. Feel free to contact me if you need that.

Re: auto accident liability for registered owner

Your liability is limited to that of a vehicle owner, maybe 50,000 unless you "negligently entrusted" the car to her son in which case you're liable for unlimited amounts.

A competent lawyer representing you would probably be able to beat back this allegation, but since you foolishly chose not to insure your car I am assuming you have no lawyer representing you. This is the risk you took by not insuring your car, so you must either hire your own lawyer or else risk a judgment for perhaps millions of dollars.

Re: auto accident liability for registered owner

You are liable for $35,000 as the owner, $30,000 for both deaths and $5,000 for property damage. This assumes your grandson is at fault which might not be true.