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Showing posts with label premises liability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label premises liability. Show all posts
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Injured contractor finds no award in ruling spanning worker comp, premises liability, conflict of law

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Roof collapsed by snow (illustrative; not this case). Richard Allaway via Flickr CC BY 2.0 A worker hired to remedy a dangerous property co...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Unforeseeability precludes lessor liability for saloon shooting, but court fails to mention 'scope of liability'

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Jernej Furman CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A property owner could not be held liable for the fatal shooting of a musician at a lessee nightclub, th...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

N.J. limits mode-of-operation doctrine in classic slip-and-fall claim over grocery store grapes

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Open Food Facts CC BY-SA 3.0 A grocery-story-grape, slip-and-fall case in New Jersey prompted the state high court to limit the mode-of-op...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Accidental deaths on nonpublic stairways threaten public transit with tort liability in London, Boston

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Canning Town Station in 2020 ( photo by Ewan Munro CC BY-SA 2.0 ) An English court last week exonerated the London Underground of liabili...
Monday, June 28, 2021

No duty: Court clears homeowner of liability in fatal shooting that sparked town ban on Airbnb

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Not where the party was: historic Henfield House in Lynnfield, Mass. ( photo by John Phelan CC BY 3.0 ) A homeowner is not liable in the s...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Best friend of teen struck, killed by train may claim negligence without physical injury, appeals court rules

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On a "zone of danger" theory, the Massachusetts Appeals Court last week reinstated the claim of negligent infliction of emotional...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Appeals court rejects landowner liability for 'open and obvious' danger of backyard zipline

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The same day the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided the Boston Globe case this week, the Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgme...