Not exact matches
If you control the
premises, you're required to use
reasonable care to provide a
safe environment for your guests.
If you were on the
premises for the purposes of conducting business or as a social guest, the property owner has a duty to keep the property
reasonable safe and will be liable if you suffer serious bodily injury.
While property owners have duties to maintain the
premises in a reasonably
safe manner, visitors to the property also have a duty to take
reasonable precautions to stay
safe.
They must make
reasonable efforts to warn of hidden dangers, to keep the
premises safe, and to regularly inspect the
premises.
The underlying principle of
premises liability cases is that whoever owns or controls a piece of property or building has duty to maintain the property in a
reasonable safe condition.
The court found the business had a duty to exercise
reasonable care in providing reasonably
safe premises when it knew or should have known of a risk on the
premises.
Proving negligence on the part of the business owner in a slip - and - fall case requires demonstrating facts that show a lack of
reasonable care in maintaining
safe premises.
They basically state that whoever owns land or structure must use
reasonable care to make sure that the
premise is
safe for others.
The law of
premises liability varies somewhat from state to state, though most states» laws impose a duty upon the owner of
premises to exercise
reasonable care to protect children who have been invited on or are known to be present on the owner's
premises safe from harm, including the harm of sexual assault.
This court abolished, in
premises liability actions involving a slip and fall on snow and ice, the distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and ice, which had constituted an exception to the general rule of
premises liability that a property owner owes a duty to all lawful visitors to use
reasonable care to maintain its property in a reasonably
safe condition in view of all the circumstances [370 - 384]; further, this court saw no reason to limit its holding to prospective application [384 - 386].
Using the evidence discovered in your case, it must be proven that the defendant / property owner failed to maintain his / her
premises in a
reasonable and
safe condition.
It's a principle of
premises liability law that the owners of establishments such as hotels, motels, bars, taverns, and nightclubs should take
reasonable steps to keep their patrons and employees
safe from the kind of crime that often can be associated with these types of businesses.
The duty of a business owner to exercise
reasonable care to keep business
premises safe from dangerous conditions that may injure customers is an example of such a duty of care.
If a child's trespassing is reasonably foreseeable to a homeowner because, for instance, the homeowner's
premises contain an attractive nuisance (something particularly attractive and enticing to children, such as a swimming pool or playground equipment), a duty to exercise
reasonable care to keep the
premises safe for such a child trespasser arises on the part of the homeowner.
Thus, there was enough evidence here for the Court to conclude that there was no genuine issue for trial, meaning the TTC took
reasonable steps to ensure its
premises were
safe in these circumstances.
Property owners are legally obligated to make
reasonable attempts to keep their
premises safe for patrons.
Thus, the owner of the house or entity should make sure that the staircase in their
premise is
safe and the design is
reasonable.
An «occupier» is defined in the legislation as including «(a) a person who is in physical possession of
premises; or (b) a person who has responsibility for and control over the condition of
premises or the activities there carried on, or control over persons allowed to the
premises...» An occupier's duty of care under the legislation is as follows: «An occupier of
premises owes a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is
reasonable to see that persons entering on the
premises, and the property brought on the
premises by those persons are reasonably
safe while on the
premises.»
There just needs to be evidence that the occupier took
reasonable steps to make the
premises reasonably
safe.
the plaintiff must point to some act or failure to act on the part of the defendant which resulted in the injury, this act or failure to act being a breach of the defendant's positive duties to take
reasonable care to ensure the plaintiff was reasonably
safe while using the
premises.»
By Michael Lesage In Ontario, the occupier of property is under a statutory duty to: «take
reasonable care in the circumstances to make their
premises safe.
Property owners have to take
reasonable steps to ensure that their
premises are
safe both inside and outside.
Finally, a trespasser enters the property without any invitation to do so and without any guarantee that
reasonable care has been taken to assure that the
premises are
safe.
The appellant sued the respondents alleging negligence, breach of duty of care, and breach of their duty under s. 3 (1) of the Occupiers» Liability Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O. 2, to «take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is
reasonable to see that persons entering on the
premises, and the property brought on the
premises by those persons are reasonably
safe while on the
premises.»