door hit in private parking lot.

Domon

Domon

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My wife and baby where sitting in her car at party place store(getting stuff for sons first birthday) when some lady in her car next to her opened her door and the wind took it out of her hands it and it scraped my wifes car and took the paint off right to the metal. My wife look over right when she her the sound and saw the lady sitting in her car with the door open. I just wanted to find out how fault works for this situation. and The her son already reported it to a collision center.(we reported it later that night). The only thing is that when my wife opened the door to talk to the lady she hit her mirror and it scratched the black plastic of her mirror(Mirror is not the same color as the car it was just a black plastic). The lady then told my wife now we are even when you hit my mirror, My wife told her its not the same if you want i can go to the dealer and buy you a new mirror(wasn’t broken just a light scratch underneath it )My wife got a quote for her car from 427 collision on queensway, they said it would be 1300. My wife wants to get it fix because it will rust because u can actually see the metal. Any advice you guys can offer would be great thanks

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If she won't pay, take her to small claims court.
 
I think it'd be that lady's fault if you go through insurance and that would make her pay for any deductible.
With RBC, there was a line where you could call to see how it would turn out before a claim is actually filed. Maybe you could check.
 
Same thing happened to my friend in a Go Station parking lot. Needless to say the other lady wouldn't hand over insurance information. Police was called and they said that she didn't need to provide any insurance information since both cars were stationary!
 
Then it's OK to pound on someone's car with your door as long as you're sitting still? That gives me an idea..........
 
WeatherB said:
Same thing happened to my friend in a Go Station parking lot. Needless to say the other lady wouldn't hand over insurance information. Police was called and they said that she didn't need to provide any insurance information since both cars were stationary!
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That's why he's a cop and not a lawyer. In a situation like this, report to your insurance company (make sure to take down the plates and if possible make, model, description of the driver) and your adjuster will go after her insurance company.
 
FiReSTaRT said:
That's why he's a cop and not a lawyer. In a situation like this, report to your insurance company (make sure to take down the plates and if possible make, model, description of the driver) and your adjuster will go after her insurance company.
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We have her information and she took tons of pictures and we are just waiting right now to see if she will pay cash to fix it or if she wants to go through insurance.

p.s. I don't understand how every time someone hits my wifes car or mine, they always give me the line that they know a guy and to take it to them for a quote. How do all these people know "GUYS". Do they get into that many accidents that they have a special body shop.
 
Domon said:
We have her information and she took tons of pictures and we are just waiting right now to see if she will pay cash to fix it or if she wants to go through insurance.

p.s. I don't understand how every time someone hits my wifes car or mine, they always give me the line that they know a guy and to take it to them for a quote. How do all these people know "GUYS". Do they get into that many accidents that they have a special body shop.
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Last time I agreed to make accommodations (but my shop, not theirs), I took them to a reputable collision repair shop used by the insurance industry as well. They gave me a price of under $1000.. I called the lady, told her the price and she freaked at me, started making up stories about how I hit her. Went straight to my insurance company and hounded the adjuster until they made the determination that it was 100% the lady's fault and got the car fixed.
 
mathan said:
isn't anything in a parking lot considered 50/50% at fault?
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Nope.. Fault determination rules still apply and in a case of a door ding, there isn't really a "he said she said" kinda scenario.
 
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