Appeal by defendant store and property manager from finding
of liability for injuries plaintiff sustained in slip and fall accident.
You need to protect yourself against
personal liability for injuries to visitors to your home, or for damage you accidentally cause to your neighbour's property.
Our Housing experts recalls a case where a negligent landlord failed to carry out repairs and tried to
escape liability for injury to a tenant.
If liability for the injury is established, victims may be able to recover compensation for present and future medical costs, lost wages, and pain and suffering.
In some ways, boating accidents are similar to other types of accidents:
liability for injuries generally is determined by who was responsible for causing the accident.
At present, most robots are used in the military or in manufacturing, both areas
where liability for injuries the robots cause is not suffered directly.
Though, third party insurance cover is mandatory, it is advisable to buy comprehensive insurance cover as it covers damage of own vehicle
besides liability for injuries and damages to others.
Other property management cases
involved liability for injuries that resulted from the condition of common areas of leased property, such as falls caused by broken steps.
The recommended coverage amounts are $ 100,000 for personal injury protection, $ 300,000
in liability for injury to others, and at least $ 50,000 coverage against property damage.
Your motorcycle policy's bodily injury liability coverage typically protects you
against liability for injuries to people other than your passengers from an accident you cause.
If a rider is in the car, Uber offers up to $ 1 million in third -
party liability for injuries of riders in the vehicle, other drivers, pedestrians or bicyclists (assuming the Uber driver was at - fault).
This worry continues to grow because governing boards and educators can
face liability for injuries students suffer at school whether by the intentional or unintentional actions of peers or staff members in increasingly litigious societies, writes Charles J. Russo and Allan G. Osborne, Jr..
A landlord's homeowners or landlord insurance covers the structure of the building, any personal property the landlord owns (like appliances and carpeting) and
liability for injuries due to the property owner's negligence in upkeep or safety of the property.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on July 14 issued a decision (4 - 2) affirming an appeal from a lower court that Deer & Company was not liable under strict
products liability for an injury caused to a bystander.
In the San Antonio and Brownsville areas, there are a group of laws that help
determine liability for any injuries sustained while on the property, or premise, of another person or corporation.
For example, in New York, the minimum requirement is 30/60/25, meaning that the requirements are $ 30,000 for bodily injury liability for one person, $ 60,000 for bodily
injury liability for all injuries from one accident, and $ 25,000 for property damage liability per accident.
The park may have the strongest cages and a slew of safety devices installed, but if one animal somehow escapes and attacks you, the park is held under
strict liability for your injuries.
How you
establish liability for your injuries, and the degree of certainty to which you must do so, depends on whether you are filing a personal injury claim with an insurance company or filing a personal injury lawsuit against the person or entity you believe is responsible for your accident.
Those carefully crafted decisions of courts upholding liability no more pose a threat to religious liberty than do the determinations that the doctrine of «charitable immunity» is an unnecessary shield for religious groups seeking to avoid
tort liability for injury inflicted in charitable institutions.
The Dog Owners» Liability Act is provincial legislation in Ontario that imposes strict liability on dog owners for injuries caused by their pets.2 This means that proof of intent or negligence on the part of the dog owner is not needed to
impose liability for injuries caused by the animal.
This being mentioned, if you are seeking to file a claim against a negligent individual under
premises liability for your injuries sustained in a slip and fall accident, you must be able to prove liability.
If the homeowner complies with this duty, he or she should be free from
liability for injuries arising from failure to maintain municipally owned streets and sidewalks.
The no - fault law establishes
limited liability for injuries resulting from an auto accident, with PIP benefits paying for the medical bills of the injured party.
South Carolina landowners will be afforded the same rights as those in these other states and prevent the adoption of broader exceptions, including the shifting of
liability for injuries incurred by trespassers from the trespassers themselves to landowners.