Can Mark recover anything? Why? Why not? How much? [read details]?

Mark went to Copper Mountain college. Last Monday the parking lot at the college was full and all of the space on the street was taken. Mark decided to park his car on private property up the street from the college without the owner鈥檚 permission. Later in the day Mark got a text message from his wife that she wanted to take him out to dinner and would pick him up at the college. They had a nice dinner at the 36 Pines Inn and went home.

The next day Mark went to retrieve his car and it was gone. The upset property owner said that he had called Emergency Towing Company and had the car towed away. Emergency Towing told Mark that he would have to come in to the office and pay a towing and storage fee and then could go to the storage lot to pick up his car. Mark paid the fee and went to the storage lot. The lot was fenced and a person was on duty to guard the cars. However, during the night the guard left his post and someone cut a hole in the fence.

Mark discovered that a number of cars at the lot had been vandalized including his own. The estimated cost of repairs is $4,200.Can Mark recover anything? Why? Why not? How much? [read details]?
These places should have insurance for the property that they are storing the cars on. I'm sure that their building is insured for vandalism. Tell Mark to file a report with the police in the town of where the storage lot is and all the damage done to his vehicle. Then if Mark has car insurance that covers that kind of stuff he needs to call his insurance company, file a claim with them, get a copy of the police report and either send it or bring it to them so they can get start working on the claim.



The insurance company will send someone to look and take pictures of the damage on the vehicle so they can make an estimate of things and then they'll take it from there. If he has no coverage for this kind of damage see if you can get the storage co. to pay for the damage through their ins co. If not get a lawyer, and hold the storage co and the guard who left his post responsible for the damage. Well good luck and hope you can get this resolved.