Legal Question in Legal Ethics in California

I am a technician, I work on air compressors for major industries mostly in manufacturing. I recently had a job where I had performed a service on an air compressor for a customer and during this service I had told the customer he had a leak coming from a very specific area but because of where it was and how it was facing I could not inspect it without moving the whole compressor so he told me not to proceed with the investigation of the leak hours later I get a call from the customer saying their air compressor had leaked out all the oil right from the spot where i had told them and noted in my paperwork I went out the day after to find solutions for their problems, ended up working a 14 hour day and got them up and running. Then come to find out today, when we sent them a quote for the $4000 worth of work I did they are trying to say that they are not going to pay for it because they didn't cause the leak and that we did the service to it so we should be responsible because it wasn't leaking "that bad" before the service and after it was a significantly larger leak. Who is liable? who needs to prove what? Is it now my responsibility to prove we didn't cause it? or is it their responsibility to prove that we caused it?


Asked on 9/15/14, 4:44 pm

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You have asked this question under the wrong category. Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility is the topic for issues regarding such things as attorney malpractice and other aspects of the attorney/client relationship and rules and laws governing attorney conduct.

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Answered on 9/15/14, 5:18 pm


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