Victim of Slip and Fall against Target Case Fails
Clients often ask: well I was injured on their property, aren’t they responsible? Yes. And no. Not if they did not do anything negligent. In other words, was there anything that the property owner did, or failed to do, that caused the fall? For example, if a store owner knows of a leak, allows it to continue and fails to stop the lead or warn folks of the slippery floor as a result of the lead; clearly the store owner is responsible. On the other hand, if a customer picks up a bottle, drops it and you immediately slip from the wet floor, there was nothing the storeowner could do to prevent that slip; they did not have the opportunity to warn folks or clean it up.
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