Legal Question in Legal Ethics in California

Painter at an Occupied Apartment

Hi My family owns a painting company, where we do interior

paintings for apartments. My parents are painters and they have

over 10years of experience and this incident never happened to

us before. This one apartment schedule for us to paint their

interior but it was occupied, meaning the people still lived there.

So, in order for us to paint occupied, the resident have to remove

the furnitures for us. However, when my parents went to the

apartment the lady offered them a water. After the job was done,

my parents left the cold glass on the table and left. However, the

lady who lives there called and asked me to give her our

insurance company's phone number saying that Her table is

damaged because we placed cold glass over it. It was an already

damaged table and it had scratches and damages already, and I

told her if You knew we were coming, you should've taken good

care of it if it's an antique like you say. It's a ridiculous situation,

Can she actually sue us for leaving a cold water cup on her

table??


Asked on 9/23/04, 5:08 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Joel Selik www.SelikLaw.com

Re: Painter at an Occupied Apartment

unfortunately yes. Do you have insurance? They will work it out for you.

Joel

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Answered on 9/23/04, 8:58 pm


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