You don't have to feel helpless and alone in your suffering if you have been injured due to
the negligence of some building owner or other entity.
Not exact matches
Auto & General provides commercial insurance in three general classes: property insurance, which provides protection against events such as a business
owner's
building being damaged in a fire; liability insurance, which protects the business
owner in the event
of negligence, and business vehicle insurance.
If a
building is not «up to code,» a swimming pool is not properly supervised and maintained, locks on windows and doors are faulty, or any other maintenance issue causes a hotel, motel, and resort accident, there could be
negligence on the part
of the property
owner, manager, and / or employee.
For example, if a property
owner was in violation
of fire - egress requirements, and a person suffered burn injuries because they couldn't escape the burning
building, the
building code violation would be evidence
of negligence.
In our Commonwealth, a violation
of the
building code will be evidence
of a property
owner's
negligence as long as the violation contributed in some way to causing the injury.
Except in instances
of provable
negligence by the
building's
owners leading to property loss, most
of the time you are responsible for taking care
of and insuring your own possessions.