Originally Posted by
Sy Reene
It seems though that the elephant in the room, is that the guy whose bike fails, seems would have to prove that it failed from damage that existed at the time of inspection and didn't occur some time after leaving the bike shop.
I am not sure that would be the case, necessarily. If one were to come in to have the front end checked for damage and then a week later the front end failed, it wouldn’t be a hard stretch to say the shop missed it. Civil cases have a lower bar of proof. More than likely, if the shop tried to say that the damage occurred after the inspection, they would have to somehow prove that through photos or something. Most insurance companies would rather not go to court, so they would more than likely go for an out of court settlement.