Alabama General Practice Legal Questions

If I understand you corectly, these people were staying with you, so they could have stolent the stuff at any time.  Also, if I understand you correctly, had you been there you would have let them in, and if the maintenance person had called you, you would have consented to him giving your friends a key.  If I were the judge, I would not hold the complex responsible, but some judge may be more favorably disposed towards your claim.  However, at worst, the apartment complex is responsible for a loss of under $100 while your friends owe you about $500.  Why don't you sue them?  In fact, you could report them to the police for their theft.    ... Read More

You can't require the other car owner to get another estimate or use your husband to do the work because they never agreed to do so.  Nor are you required to pay their estimate if you believe it to be unrasonable.  If you can't work it out, however, and don't pay, they will likely have no other option but to sue you.  It is possible that you will win, and the Court will hold that you only caused $500 worth of damages, but given that you (a) may lose and (b) broke the law by driving without insurance, you may be better off getting the best deal you can and staying out of court.... Read More

Probably not.  First of all, if you look at your contract I'm pretty sure that you will find a clause limiting the service provider's liability to some nominal sum.  Alabama law may be different, but in NY such clauses are emfprceable unless you can show that the the service provider was grossly negligent or reckless, in other words more than just negligent, and that such negligence caused your loss, i.e. that your truck would not have been broken into and/or that you would have recovered your stolen goods if the camera had been working.  Those are difficult propositions to prove. Also, did you know that the camera wasn't working?  If so, the service provider will argue that you could mitigated your damages by taking other precautions.  For example, had you leased another security camera until the first was fixed and then tried to recover the cost of the extra camera from the service provider, I thnk you would have had a better claim (Of course, if the reason you didn't do so is because the service provider kept promising to have the camera back to you in a couple of days, you would have a good reason not to have replaced the disabled camera).... Read More

I'm very sorry about your health situation.   You call this a breach of confidentiality, and it surely is a breach of good taste and politeness, but unless you had an agreement that the lender would treat the information you voluntarily provided as confidential, I don't believe that there is any legal requirement that they do so.... Read More